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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I've been to Stonehenge. In summer. Those boulders did not come from a local area. There are none. 7.5K years is a long time for things to happen.

Heck, the Romans had a good time up there 2K years ago. They had a nice grape-growing and wine enterprise going on nearby. Check out Bath for the first indoor swimming pool ever built. Over a hot spring using stone masonry.

Still usable in all it's glory. If the cops weren't around, you can have Roman bashes there with a hundred people or so. Loud music will probably make you deaf reflecting off the stone walls and ceiling. Have the band outside. Jazz would be fine inside without amplifiers.

12 posted on 02/12/2009 8:37:16 PM PST by BobS
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To: BobS; SunkenCiv; All

I doubt that bath was the first indoor swimming pool ever built. Perhaps in England, but not in areas closer to Rome. I just finished reading the historical novel “Pompeii” by Robert Harris. The hero of the book is a water works engineer. It is an interesting book especially for those interested in catastrophes and ancient engineering. Heated bathing facilities were a well established feature in 79 AD, and must have taken a number of centuries to perfect.

I saw an interesting article in National Geographic from about 25 years ago. It was about the excavation of a 50 foot high settlement mound in Bulgaria. The lowest level also dated to some time around 5,000 BC, and the pottery was very cheerful and colorful. By 3,000 BC, although the pottery was well shaped it was monocrome, gray and depressing. I always wondered what had happened in the intervening period.


22 posted on 02/13/2009 6:52:03 PM PST by gleeaikin
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