How to pronounce “newgrange” in English

And Newgrange can tell us things about the environment and our relationship to the environment.

come to believe how Newgrange and the period in which it is built has things to say to us about today and about the future, also.

It contains Newgrange, Knowth, Dowth, about 40 passage tombs, probably, originally.

And this is Newgrange here behind.

And at Newgrange-- this is Newgrange here-- they're between two and five tons.

This is Newgrange at night.

And monuments like Newgrange, you could say they were a little bit like Memento mori, you know, the skull on the medieval philosopher's desk?

Would they be interested in Newgrange?

So on that first day in Newgrange, it dawned on me that these were people with a very big vision.

And even when you look at Newgrange itself, you can see things that key into that story.

What were the origins of Newgrange?

One of the things we know about Newgrange was that it was a community affair.

So one estimate has it when Newgrange was built, there was 25 million people in the world.

But all that changed on the first time I visited Newgrange here.

So most of you that have been to Newgrange will know that it's famous for its winter solstice orientations.

Could we figure out the origins of these builders of Newgrange?

And there's a whole series of developments leading up to Newgrange.

And you could say those three areas are found at Newgrange also, a huge life force involved in creating a monument of this scale,

So we have the winter solstice alignment here at Newgrange, but there are other monuments that do the summer solstice alignment.

And at Newgrange here, you have kind of an instant cosmic liturgy.

So you have a cosmological story here in waiting in Newgrange and potentially important for us going into the future.

In the Neolithic, when Newgrange was built in Ireland, a very rough estimate that's been thrown out, about 150,000 people living in Ireland at that time.

What I'm going to try and do in this talk is to speak about Newgrange as an avenue to discussing our shared past, but also as I have

These are some of the typical objects that you will get at passage tombs like Newgrange all around Ireland.

So I took it about seven or eight years ago in a snowy time at Newgrange, and you can see the snow has just brought up

And I was fortunate enough to get access up into that area above Newgrange.

So in conclusion, I think Newgrange and this period has a lot to say to us.

And for those of you, how many people here have been to Newgrange or seen a picture of Newgrange?

This is Knowth west, so this is one of the sister sites for Newgrange.

So some people thought, no, Newgrange and those monuments probably the earliest.

So this is the passage leading up to the chamber, here inside of Newgrange.

Now, anybody with even a passing interest in megalithic monuments, and Newgrange, and so on these days will hear the oft repeated statement,

This is, believe it or not, is a passage tomb also, but it's one that's quite a bit older than Newgrange.

This is site B. So this is the Boyne River here, which surrounds Newgrange and all of these monuments.

And to cut a long story very, very short, what we discovered was that two of the monuments there are probably about 500 years older than Newgrange.

And we dated material from inside those monuments, and not as old as Carrowmore, but still about 300 years older than Newgrange.

and then up the coast by boat, somehow-- with a big boat, presumably-- and somehow bringing back these really large stones and then up the slope to Newgrange,

Can we leave a legacy that is as wondrous, as profound, and maybe as instructive as the people that built Newgrange left us?

And you mentioned in the talk, I'll just ask one more question before I go to audience Q&A, but you mentioned for Newgrange how far away a lot of material