Stonehenge boy 'was from the Med'

BBC ^ | 28 Sep 2010 | Paul Rincon

[wildbill]

Maybe the natives kidnapped foreigners, took them to the alter, and performed gruesome sacrificial rites on them before burying them.

Or maybe not. Could be they were sightseeing and caught Druid’s Revenge and died.

Hard to figure out why buried bodies show up that aren’t native to that lonesome area.

[SunkenCiv]

The project started when the prehistoric chieftain said, “how many menhir?”

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam!

[SunkenCiv]

Or the craftsmen.

[Little Bill]

Wasn’t the beaker culture classed as Proto Celts?

[Docbarleypop]

or ate....heeerrrreee hoorrrsssseeeyyy

[muawiyah]

Elephants (so-called Indian elephants) aren't as big as you imagine, but large Belgian warhorses in the Middle Ages were!

I figure the operational size for both animals was pretty much the same ~ because anything beyond human scale would put them beyond "control".

It's only in modern industrial times that we've gotten into using machinery that dwarfs us, and that's only because we build in OFF SWITCHES. Elephants and horses have an off switch but it's buried under feet of flesh and gone. You need a spear to reach it! Last thing you want is an animal you can't turn off ~ like a bull African elephant rampaging in must.

[Silentgypsy]

You PUNished me. How many years in the PUNitentiary is that worth? Pick a cod, any cod at all. That smelt. Why did I say that? Just for the halibut. (You started it.) :)

[allmendream]

There are many theories as to what type and size destriers attained, but they apparently were not enormous draft types.[5] Recent research undertaken at the Museum of London, using literary, pictorial and archeological sources, suggests war horses (including destriers) averaged 14–15 hands, and were distinguished from a riding horse by their strength, musculature and training, rather than their size.[6] This estimate is supported by an analysis of medieval horse armour located in the Royal Armouries, which indicates the equipment was originally worn by horses of 15 to 16 hands,[7] about the size and build of a modern field hunter or ordinary riding horse.[8]

From Wiki....but the sources look legit.

15 - 16 hands = 60-64 inches tall = 5-6 feet tall at the withers or top of the shoulder.

Elephant = Asian male elephant around 11 feet tall. African elephant 10 to 13 feet at the shoulder.

Nobody has ever seen any evidence (armor or skeleton) of a horse as large as an elephant.

[happygrl]

Even the Przewalski horse ?

[muawiyah]

Even the Przewalski. All the wild horses were corraled and eaten or put to the bridle as appropriate ~ for several thousand years. Sometimes they'd get loose ~ they can live in the wild you know. But even the modern "wild horse" is descended from domesticated breeds.

Your typical horsie is like a chicken!

[muawiyah]

We are speaking of elephants small enough to be handled in the environment of a military engagement ~ so no large males ~

[allmendream]

Abul-Abbas the war elephant of Emperor Charlemagne was a large male.

The Elephant Armor I saw on display was for a full sized Elephant, far larger than any horse ever bred.

I think they preferred the elephants to be male, from what I have read.

[SunkenCiv]

I’ll probably keep this up tilapia jected from the forum.

[Silentgypsy]

Tilapia? We were ejected ? Wow!