Stonehenge!!

Bren-Ten

Bren-Ten

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besides the fact that its crazy awsome i was wondering if any one on NS has done a powerpoint on the subject.

i kinda need one for the joke of a class but if not that straight...
 
there was a video on you tube or something where a guy was building his own stonehenge without ay machinery using gravity and simple machines and such. it was pretty cool.
 
word i saw that!

but he did use a garden hose, and druids from 1000s of years ago didnt have those.
 
haha i am, but this class is a joke and he said aslong as you try he'll give me a 100, so i dont want to read page upon page about stonehenge, i kinda just want a breif synopsis
 
There was something about lots of sheep being killed in the building process, I can't remember exactly why, but I have the vague impression they used the lanolin (oil from the wool) as grease to slide the stones over logs. I could be completely wrong though. There is also a kind of blue stone that was placed inside the circle that is only found in the mountains in Wales which I think is about 300 miles away. In the 80s during the Margaret Thatcher era in England a group of people called the New Age Travellers held rituals at Stonehenge at the summer solstice I think, when there is a significant lining up of the sun with the stones, where they danced around naked, and the government sent riot police to break it up, since they were "defiling this sacred space" even though it was probably originally designed to be used for rituals. Also stonehenge wasn't built all at once. different parts were added on over time (millenia), I don't know why it stopped being kept up and added to, but it would be kind of cool if people still worked on it today. That's all I can think if about Stonehenge for right now. The practice of setting up megalithic (large stone) structures seems to have been practiced quite frequently, a notable example being Menec, Carnac, France where teenagers set up row upon row of standing stones. If you ever read the popular comic Asterix, the "Menhirs" that Obelix is always carrying around are like those stones. A legend about the Carnac standing stones is that (I think) a Roman army was attacking, but the Gallic warriors who were there would not retreat even though they faced certain death, and the latter were turned to stone magically so they would not face defeat.
 
i hope people help you out. this one douch in my thread keeps hatin on me needin some homework too. i hope you get no douches in here. good luck tho bro
 
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The thing about that though is they have used extensive imaging machinery to examine the area around the columns are there are almost no impressions or anything else in the ground. If they used huge wood structures to roll/hoist those stones the ground would be indented and have many clues. Weird shit, no idea whats happened there.
 
hmmmm good point, maybe they could have used logs to move the stones from wherever they were quarried to the general area, and then moved them by hand to place them? but then how would they get the ones on top? very mysterious. It seems to me that it could also be possible for the ground to be impacted enough by heavy tourist traffic that the imaging wouldn't be accurate
 
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