Stonehenge Was A Site For Sore Eyes In 2300BC

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 11-27-2006 | Nic Fleming

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Lancey Howard]

I love this stuff.
BUMP

[doug from upland]

Maybe this was the alien landing site.

[the Real fifi]

"Prof Darvill points to evidence that many of the human remains excavated from burial mounds around Stonehenge, dating from around 2300BC, show signs of the individuals having been unwell prior to their death. "

How odd is that?

[rdl6989]

Most people are unwell prior to their death.

[moroque11]

"Prof Darvill believes those seeking to tap into the monument's powers should do so in December during the winter solstice when our ancestors believed it was occupied by Apollo."

This is when Prog Darvill will be selling his famous Fish & Chips on-site. So come visit and stay a spell.

[BIGLOOK]

There was once a cartoon in the paper....years ago....that had a peasant hauling a cart passing Stone Henge. A druid stood along the path and greeted the peasant, saying, "Hi! Do you want to know what tme it is?"

Wish I could find it.

[KellyAdmirer]

So, you would haul tons and tons of rock hundreds of miles east, to a barren spot in a semi-desert, just to save yourself the trouble of going to where the rocks were originally?

So, how dumb WERE these guys?

[wodinoneeye]

I remember hearing that there are over 10000 Neolithic monumental stone sites in Europe.

[El Sordo]

Washington's is nicer.

But then, it's not so darn old.

http://www.livingwilderness.com/odds/stonehenge.html

[GoLightly]

December? To make it work even better, I think they'd need to get out there on the day when it is the crappiest in the year. They can start in the beginning of January & the first time the weather gets as raw as they think it will get that year, they best get out there. If there's a day later in the year that's worse than the previous one, again, best get out there & do their little worship the stones deal.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

A great Stonehenge book is Harry Harrison's "Stonehenge".

[TigersEye]

So, how dumb WERE these guys?

They were so dumb...

...they made cavemen seem smart.

[right way right]

LOL!

[Erasmus]

So come visit and stay a spell.

Certainly appropriate, for Stonehenge.

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[Erasmus]

I'm sure they did traffic projections based on market analysis, then determined the cost-benefit ratio, probable cash flow, environmental impact, the cost of money, and the payback period.

Then they said, "Aw, f*** it, let's just build the thing."

[SkyPilot]

Caption me.

[sure_fine]

my therory is that it is the remains of a poorly built roller coaster for a local fair that no one wanted to clean up


hows that?

[Timocrat]

We had Burquas and crescent moons before those islamofacists.