Bluestone Delivery Service, When it has to absolutely, positively get there sometime during the next inter-glacial period.......
Coming from a cold part of the world I always thought that the stones might have been dragged over snow and ice but this makes even more sense.
Usually the most simple explanation is correct.
Interesting book on Stonehenge by Harry Harrison.
This rousing adventure story set in the Europe of 1473 B. C. Above all sets out to entertain. But it also has a rather more serious purpose - to expound another theory about the reasons for the building of the fascinating stone circles.
There's something I've wondered about for years, and that is, what happened to the missing stones at Stonehenge? When you look at it, it's obvious that some are missing, and it would be quite a feat to haul one off!
Maybe there just weren't enough stones of a suitable size there in the first place, and so only those were used in its construction. There's enough there to do the astronomical observations and, enough to show exactly where the others should be placed to finish the job.
So what are the odds that the stones were in a much older structure and the glacier destroyed the place and pushed the stones to where they were re-used by the builders of Stonehenge? I mean, Anthony West has a credible theory that the foundation blocks (carved blocks set under the pyramids and Sphinx) under the Giza plateau are perhaps hundreds of thousands years old, matching the age of blocks at Obiados (sp?).
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Only way to prove any of this is a 'time machine' and since that will probably never be a reality we will just have to play around with theories.
Did Swiss Immigrant Build Stonehenge?An early Bronze Age archer, whose grave was discovered near the stone circle last year, may have helped build the monument. And tests on the chemical components of his tooth enamel showed he grew up in the region that is now Switzerland... The 4,000-year-old man was identified as an archer because of the flint arrowheads found by his body, along with other artifacts belonging to the Beaker Culture that flourished in the Alps during the Bronze Age... The 100 artifacts found in his exceptionally rich grave, discovered about three miles from Stonehenge, indicate he was "obviously a very prominent man" and likely involved in constructing the monument, Wessex Archaeology spokesman Tony Trueman said. Although the indigenous British originally came from mainland Europe, they settled thousands of years before the arrival of the archer, who clearly belonged to a different culture, marked by a new style of pottery, the use of barbed flat arrow heads, copper knives and small gold ornaments. His grave contained teeth and bones as well as two gold hair tresses, three copper knives, flint arrowheads, wrist guards and pottery. The copper knives came from Spain and France. The gold dated to as early as 2470 B.C., the earliest dated gold objects found in Britain.
by Michael McDonough
There are a lot of nutjobs in academia. A glacier built stonehenge, aliens built the pyramids, the sphynx is a million years old, etc. Anything to sell books. Publish or perish.
Stonehenge is actually a calendar and outpost built by the men of Numenor in the Second Age of the World, probably after the arrival of Tar-Minastir and his forces c. 1700 S.A.
Here's a pertinent observation from the Archaeoblogster:
http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/
"One would assume that there would be some sort of distribution of similar erratics outside of the procurement area that could be used to bolster this idea. OTOH, one would think that a bunch of large erratics would have been noticed by now since these things tend to frost-heave their way to the surface. Maybe they used all the big erratics in the area? Still, seems like a neat hypothesis that one could support in a number of ways."
Despite the disclaimer, the writer points out that there should be leftover stones which were never used -- where are they?
Yeah, but go to this site and see this guy theory--and watch him move and set a 19,000 pound monolinth by himself alone using only sticks and stones.
http://www.cybersalt.org/content/view/1777/468/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1429888/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919690/posts
The article doesn’t say, but I wonder if any work has been done to try to chart the direction of British glaciers? The Preseli Hills are West North West of Salisbury. The glacier would have to have been basically traveling East to move the stones to Salisbury. But I have always been under the impression the glaciers were a North-South thing.
