Stonehenge Built With Balls? New experiment suggests monumental stones could have rolled on rails

National Geographic News ^ | Friday, December 10, 2010 | Kate Ravilious

[sodpoodle]

I’ve got it!!!!!!

They waited for severe winters and shoved them over icy cow paths.

[sodpoodle]

FOUR SECONDS APART!!!!

I’m going with ICY paths;) LOL!

[lonestar]

Stonehenge is child’s play compared to the pyramids.

[sodpoodle]

OK - frozen rivers!

http://www.history.com/topics/how-was-stonehenge-built

[Mrs. Don-o]

Laissez les bon temps rouler.

[SpaceBar]

Now all they have to do is find the ancient sawmill where the druids purchased their 2x4’s and the theory’s complete.

[6SJ7]

Now all they have to do is find the ancient sawmill where the druids purchased their 2x4’s and the theory’s complete.

... with a router to carve out a nice trough for the rock ball bearings!

[sodpoodle]

There are estimates that it took several hundred years to complete the structures.

So we also have to question: ‘who kept the architects’ drawings and engineers’ drafts’?????

Archeologists apply modern applications - when they should really ask a few 2nd graders how they would create this circle. Our know-how is the accumulation of centuries of trial and error - we should examine basic human capabilities and resources. (Rivers of ice;)

[Chewbacca]

Are they sure they didn’t use horses to pull the stones?

[colorado tanker]

[SunkenCiv]

Then it would be called Hengestone instead of Stonehenge.

[SunkenCiv]

I agree. The stones (if actually from Wales, and if not moved most of the way by glaciers) could make a good bit of the trip by water, and these tracks could be moved from behind the moved stone to ahead of it, continuously. The Egyptians moved stuff way heavier than these pipsqueaks over the nice soft sandy soil (including waterlogged soil near the Nile). :’) The largest of the Egyptian moves was a 650 ton statue of one of the Ramses, but the largest obelisks exceed 300 tons.

[SunkenCiv]

:’D

[SunkenCiv]

Probably the prehistoric inventor of this system had a last name of Hall, hence, Hall’s Balls.

[Ladycalif]

We have no idea how they built it, do we?

[Beowulf9]

But wouldn’t you think they’dve found some of the balls, parts or something?