Stonehenge Theory

Now THAT is cool. Give that man a medal!

-TG

Not sure if that is exactly how it was done, but it does call the alien theory into question.

I dunno... it seems like a couple of steps were missing there. How did he get the objects under the stone for the moving portion? I mean, I'm sure that he only needed to lift it a few inches or so, but with a stone that size, that would be pretty difficult. And the genesis of the whole "teeter-totter" thing needs explaining.

I don't doubt that he actually did it, but I'd be really interested in hearing more.

I've been moving rocks (stones) all my life, BY HAND and the tools required are very simple. All you need is one good pry bar and you can move any size (and any shape) stone.

I personally am not a big dude and yet I've moved (singlehandedly) 1 tonne boulders up a sheer dirt slope by using lots of smaller rocks. It takes a while, but it's very effective.. thus allowing one person to manoeuvre massive boulders using just his/her body weight. Like I said, the only tool I used was a 5 foot steel pry bar and I used smaller rocks as fulcrums. No pulleys winches or ropes.

To move larger boulders and slabs accross the yard, my dad and I would use logs, simply prying the boulders up onto a the first log and then rolling the boulders (some of them absolutely HUGE) accross a series of paralell logs each bearing the weight of the boulder whilst rolling. We manoeuvred many such boulders a distance of hundreds of feet.

See some pics of the yard here.
http://www.lumdingo.com/lj/rents_yard/

That pond is 5.5 feet deep and I rolled a 600+lb boulder straight up and out of there using smaller rocks as wedges under it's backside... one at a time, slowly rolling it uphill on an angle like this /

This video is proof of what I already know... big things were moved by people a long time ago. We monkeys just tend to think that we're the smartest and most knowledgeable generation of monkeys because we're the most current generation. We've seriously lost way more knowledge than we've gained.. especially when it comes to our connection with the environment.. with the earth. (sorry for the rant)

This was probablythe method used to move the massive Moai Statues On Easter Island.

They would cut the stone from the hardened volcanoe matter into the shape they desired, base and all, and move them across wooden rolls.


Neat that you found this.

amazing. i was entertained.

That does not prove that was how the ancients did it, but it is definitely possible. Not to mention impressive.

A far more credible theory than "aliens did it". Good to see common sense put to work in demonstrating that perhaps man wasn't merely a chest beating idiot in ancient times.

Wow, that is truly ingenus and amazing.
That may be what solves the mystery of how it was built.

I remeber one time when I was a young teenager, 12, watching a show called Ancient Mysteries on A&E, Hosted by Lenord Nemoy, and it was about a guy in the fithties who was doing something similar with absolutely huge granite blocks. No one ever saw any cranes or helicopters, nor trucks, jsut the man appearedly levitating the blocks in mid-air and making them do what he wanted them to do.

Bravo!

That was pretty neat. I'm sure we'll never know exactly how it was done (or what it was used for), but I like all the ideas people come up with that try to demonstrate how it may have been done.

Heh, and I'm reading Bernard Cornwell's "Stonehenge" novel. Neato.

Quite neat. Thank you for sharing.