These monuments were built by slaves... TEAR THEM DOWN!!!!
Posted on 07/07/2020 9:51:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Last year, scientists from Newcastle University in the UK suggested that pig fat could have been used to move the stones to create Stonehenge.
Archaeologists may have debunked the theory that stones for the world famous Stonehenge were sent via rafts from Wales to Salisbury Plain, a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science says.
The recent study using chemical analysis showed that the six-tonne sandstone from Stonehenge matches rocks in Abergavenny, just a few miles from the English border.
Thus the study shows that the stones could have been carried overland, debunking the theory that they were taken south to Milford Haven and put on rafts or slung between boats, paddled up the Bristol Channel and along the Bristol Avon to Salisbury Plain.
"This totally destroys the raft theory, it blows it out of the water. This is our second re-examination of the bluestones, but it is our first major finding", Dr Rob Ixer, from University College London said.
The research comes after a neolithic structure larger than any comparable prehistoric monument in Britain dating back 4,500 years was uncovered 1.9 miles (3 km) northeast of Stonehenge, with a series of vast shafts found to have been aligned to form a circle.
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Come on, everyone knows it was a Mantowoc that moved the stones.
http://www.wpcrane.com/manitowoc-18000-/
These monuments were built by slaves... TEAR THEM DOWN!!!!
Yeah, all that amazing technology, and they crossed the galaxy to move some very rough-hewn stones. Makes sense. /sarc.
It isn't a very good theory...
South American stonework is far from rough-hewn... That being said, I think Georgio and crew are pretty hilarious at times.(but they have made a lot of money being that funny)
I took that for granite.
Carhenge definitely arrived by land.
Whatever... Just be happy that the big box & Amelia is no longer underneath Stonehenge...
“is” ==> “are”
Mr Slate runs a clean site.
“Must have been one hell of an incentive.”
There’s only two real possibilities...
Either someone told the workers:
“drag these 30 ton stones and we’ll surely get into Heaven”
or
“drag these 30 ton stones and the ladies will all want to hook up with us”
Possibly both.
They should ask Brian Williams . . . I’m sure he was there!
“Who on earth could have been motivated to drag 30 ton stones 20 miles? Must have been one hell of an incentive.”
In part Maslow’s Heiarchy of needs.
The ancients had surplus labor, after feeding themselves, so perhaps the monoliths were thought by them, to be helpful to gain favor with their God’s
e.g. spiritual life
James Michener traced stone monoliths in ancient Israel, and their role in monotheism’s origins.
Karl Yung, and Jordan Peterson might explain universal traits in humans.
“Come on, you guys. Let’s try to move that stone over there.”
It is pitiful compared to many other sites. Stonehenge was rebuilt in 1958 using modern equipment while there is nothing known to man that would move some of the quarried stones found around the world.
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WASN’T IT : the smaller Blue Stones that came from 150-200 miles away and not the huge (~ 37 ton) Sarsen stones which were locally quarried.
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“Must have been one hell of an incentive.”
There’s only two real possibilities...
Either someone told the workers:
“drag these 30 ton stones and we’ll surely get into Heaven”
or “drag these 30 ton stones and the ladies will all want to hook up with us” Possibly both.
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OR The Joneses in the next Plain over have this big stone monument and we have to keep up with them ...
(Something like 10000 stone monumental constructions in Europe in that period - that’s lots of small ones of course)
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I see Rosie with a rough T Shirt
I think he was just being gneiss.
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