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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Great song! I’d love to hear these guys recorded with today’s tech.
“Had a little gal, she was little and low
Used to let me shake it, but she won’t no mo”
Yup. Over on Easter Island also...
Aw shucks. As I sit in front of my computer screen while eating my scrambled eggs and bacon I was still holding out hope for the alien explanation for Stonehenge!
“Oh, SURE, Lisa! A pig is a ‘magical animal’ that provides us with ham and bacon and pork chops!” *Rolleyes* ~ Homer J. Simpson
If they were collecting fat dripping off of pigs that were roasting on the spit, then the pots were sitting in the coals.
Fat is flammable.
How’d that work?
Imo, it’s far more likely that, since this is from an era that is pre food nazi and when people actually worked really hard in manual labor on a day to day basis, fat was stored as a calorie source.
"I love the smell of pig fat in the morning. Smells like ... Breakfast!"
Imagine yourself going to the leader of your people and explaining that your plan to build the big new “calendar” is to move the giant slabs of rock using the grease from every pig on the island.
That is a lot of bacon and fat-back.
I don’t know how they got the rocks there. I am pretty sure the “let’s kill all of the pigs” plan was not used. Maybe to slip them into place—not to move them very far across a rocky landscape.
Bacon skids. What a waste.
Lard is rendered from pig fat using cooking pots and fire. No, really, it's in books and everything.
LOL
"This place is a stye." -- early antiquarians
Oh great. The Muslims will have to destroy them now.
Great, now I'm hungry for a BLT.
A sound secret... I'll make a *note* of it. /rimshot!
LOL
I know how to render fat from pig meat. Do it all the time.
But from a pig roasting on a spit? over a fire?
Haven’t tried that one. That’s probably why I don’t have a lot of burn scars.
There’s been an ongoing cover-up for the the real answer - Merlin moved them through levitation.
It’s my understanding that Stonehenge was reconstructed in the mid 1950’s using cranes and concrete, thus hardly original other than the stones themselves.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1154470/posts?page=103#103
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3072989/posts?page=42#42
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3648856/posts?page=2#2
The West’s foundation is Pig Lard
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