Hey! Watch it, Bub! I have it on the very best authority that it was ...
Posted on 08/07/2024 6:31:00 AM PDT by zeestephen
Did humans truly transport these massive stones from Wales, or could a far more natural force be responsible?...The massive bluestones, each weighing several tons, might not have been laboriously hauled over 200 kilometers by Neolithic people, as widely believed, but were instead delivered to the Stonehenge site by the relentless forces of ice.
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Hey! Watch it, Bub! I have it on the very best authority that it was ...
...and stack them, one longways across two vertical.
Who needs ice when you have tractor beam?
The idea behind this is, the stones wound up scattered by a glacier all over what’s now Wiltshire, and the pre-Anglo-Saxon population thought, “hey, I’ve got an idea”. Basically it’s an old bias also found expressed in older Encyclopaedia Brittanicas — that the Celts were incapable of concerted action.
Take it from a petite woman often compared to Tinker Bell — there are lots of clever ways to move heavy objects. Even better if I were a buff and brutal big game hunter circa 3000BC.
More interesting is, always, why.
The archaeoastronomy angle is fascinating. People had little else to read but the sky, and the last thing they saw each night was those lights creeping along up there. Add a pattern recognition propensity and you’re bound to get an ancient astronomer.
...in an apparent astronomical alignment with unusual acoustic properties.
Last year after a blizzard a bunch of stones came sliding in from Canada and this spring my property was covered with moai, hats and all.
Happens all the time.
That's the size of a brick, not a boulder. Stopped reading right there so don't know if the ice also arranged them in a circle and stood them upright. Or that was done by Snow White's little blue birds.
Haha!
Right!?
Ancient peoples - Take a thousand men, drag it over a hundred miles. They didn't have football back then.
First and foremost, there is no evidence from any other British Neolithic site of megaliths being moved such vast distances. In fact, the builders of other monuments consistently used whatever large stones were locally available.
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Yeah, somehow humans were stupider than they are now. /s
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Notable Examples
Avebury (England): A UNESCO World Heritage site, Avebury is one of the largest stone circles in Europe, with a village built within its boundaries.
Castlerigg (England): One of the earliest British stone circles, Castlerigg is situated in the Lake District and boasts stunning scenery, with the dramatic Thirlmere Valley and Helvellyn mountain as its backdrop.
Long Meg and Her Daughters (England): Consisting of 59 stones, this is one of the largest stone circles in Europe, with megalithic art symbols and possible sundial functions.
Regional Variations
While the majority of stone circles are found in the British Isles and Brittany, there are also examples in other parts of Europe, such as:
Poland and Hungary, attributed to eastward migration of European tribes
The French Alps, where locals refer to them as “mairu-baratz” or “Pagan gardens”
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List of stone circles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stone_circles
If humans hauled enough large stones great distances to create Stonehenge then it’s completely reasonable to believe that humans could have hauled one more unrelated stone.
Did the ice arrange them in a circle?
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It was a slow day of retreat and more retreat. Something had to be done to show the glacier was there. The glacier left not written records. Except maybe and perhaps the Map of The Creator ...
your not a good witchdoctor or tribe leader.
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Name one!
Three points...
(1) The Bluestones are not part of the famous outer ring. They are inside the outer ring. 46 different kinds of stones and boulders are found inside the outer ring, and almost all of them have an origin that is west of Stonehenge, which is the direction the glacier came from.
(2) The theory of human transport was proposed and universally accepted in the 1920s. Incredibly, there have been only three or four published papers during the next century that support that theory. No quarry tools or transport devices have ever been discovered from the construction period.
(3) The linked paper has been reviewed and published in the open source E & G Quaternary Science Journal. The author is a retired Professor of Geography.
https://egqsj.copernicus.org/articles/73/117/2024/egqsj-73-117-2024.pdf
No. But if the large stones were moved via glacial activity, they were likely laying around like granite boulders in New England. Still not easy to move…but easier than moving them 100+ miles.
Partial list ... there are stone circles in Africa, Korea and other countries
They did not need to know they were “stars” and a “moon.” They just knew when the stopped moving to the right (or left) every morning the weather was going to change. If they could count…thats all they needed.
Stonehenge Bluestones: Sounds like a great name for a band.
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