Posted on 07/21/2019 10:36:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Ancient people may have moved some of the massive megaliths of Stonehenge into place by greasing giant sleds with pig lard, then sliding the giant stones on them across the landscape, a new study suggests.
After re-analyzing ceramic pots that earlier researchers believed were used to cook food, archaeologist Lisa-Marie Shillito concluded that many of those pots may have been used to collect fat that dripped off pigs as they were spit-roasted. The grease would have been stored as lard or tallow and used to lubricate the sleds most archaeologists believe were used to move the stones...
The pottery fragments came from Durrington Walls, a site near Stonehenge where workers lived while building the monument. Since excavations began in the 1960s, archaeologists have found a puzzling combination of artifacts at the site, including pottery fragments and animal remains...
By looking at traces of compounds left behind, including isotopes, or different versions of chemical elements, "we can determine what types of foods were processed in ancient pots," Julie Dunne, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Bristol in the UK, told Live Science. A 2018 analysis suggested that about a third of the pots archaeologists have found were used to cook pork. And they weren't just frying a bit of bacon, either.
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Can they say that? Isn’t that hate speech? Islamophobia!
Protein is not hard to find in the wild, carbs a bit harder but fat is the real prize especially in winter.
Better known as Bacon.
The Smithsonian wouldn't publish that today -- one phone call from CAIR, plllt.
The pyramids likewise.
Obvious a Christian monument then; muslims and Jews would have no part of the slippery pork
In Egypt they supposedly used a technique of wetting the sand under the runners of sleds to move those big blocks. No word on how they used the sand on the upper reaches of the pyramids though.
Think I’m going with the use of a sound secret to move blocks at least for today. :-)
Cue Spinal Tap
Anakim. Nephilim.
Were there really enough herds of pigs in England back then to supply the amount of bacon fat. Long pig could be another source of fat for this theory.
Some apparent evidence of A&N up here in the mountains, maybe.
Takes a LOT of pigs to render out that much lard.
And those old-time pigs, which probably resembled Arkansas razorbacks, probably did not have too much lard on each one to begin with.
Lubricated megaliths would certainly have sparked “scientific” inquiry about gravity, mass, and acceleration long before Newton’s analysis of falling apple. /sarc
There’s also a question of mortality rate with the laborers that handled such megaliths.
Behold the power of BACON
When the Uk is fully Islamosized, they will have to come down anyway, false gods, offense to Mohammed and the Moon...
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