Context influences our perception of artifacts

by DRM

From 1901 to 1964, the major­ity of the stone cir­cle was restored in a series of makeovers which have left it, in the words of one archae­ol­o­gist, as ‘a prod­uct of the 20th cen­tury her­itage industry’.

Another les­son in con­text and inter­ven­tion: the mon­u­ment at Stone­henge is more replica than artifact.

You can get the whole story here on a great UFO & aliens site.

Right…that’s a whole ‘nother story. It sure isn’t sci­ence. But it’s a use­ful demon­stra­tion for how the con­text of an image shifts our perception.