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Posted on 05/31/2016 4:33:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Preseli stones from Stonehenge are approximately double the weight as the experimental block, but it is possible that one huge stone could have been brought by a group of just 20 people. The community living in the area during the Neolithic would have numbered several thousand so the absence of just a few dozen people was unlikely to cause any hardship.
Doctoral student Barney Harris, who conducted the trial in Gordon Square, London, a stone's throw from UCL's Institute of Archaeology, said he was surprised that so few people had been required to move the block.
"We were expecting to need at least 15 people to move the stone so to find we could do it with 10 was quite interesting," said Mr Harris.
"It's true that we did the experiment on flat ground, and there would have been steep slopes to navigate when going through the Preseli Mountains, but actually this kind of system works well on rough terrain.
"We know that pre-industrialised societies like the Maram Naga in India still use this kind of sledge to construct huge stone monuments. And similar y-shaped sleighs have been found dating back to 2000BC in Japan which we know were used to move megaliths.
"The Chinese also used sleighs to build the Forbidden City and some of those blocks are 123 tonnes. So in comparison, these are blocks are quite small.
"Some people think they may have been pulled by oxen, but actually oxen are quite belligerent and difficult to control. This experiment shows that humans could have carried out the task fairly easily..."
Stonehenge was built during the Neolithic period, between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago.
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My question as usual is, considering how much megalithic building was done all the time throughout thousands of years in the British Isles alone, and considering how even the much larger "sarsen" stones are fairly puny compared with a good many monuments in other lands, what's the big freakin' deal about ancient ancestors' having moved 'em?
Why not let the stones “walk” there, just like the stones do on Easter Island?
"Now they tell me."
18”.
The fellow, who built the Coral Castle near Miami claimed that he knew the secrets of Stonehenge, and the Pyramids.
The simple fact is people used to do all sorts of things that we modern day wimps would struggle with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_train_of_artillery
Just get a few buddies together,,,some beer,,,fire up the grill and we can git er done!
Without the tv and the internet .... chit gets done
The hardest part was getting the permits...
Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge where a man is a man
And the children dance to the pipes of pan
“Here, hold muh burr, watch this!”
Levers and a frames
Do you have anything on megalithic structures in Russia?
You mean it wasn’t UFO’s? Bummer.
okay,,,so how did they lift the lintels in to place? :)
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