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Geologists Find Where Some Stonehenge Rocks Came From, Debunking Old Research (cnn.com)
Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CNN: A team of 12 geologists and archaeologists from across the United Kingdom unveiled research this month that traces some of the prehistoric monument's smaller stones to two quarries in western Wales. The team also found evidence of prehistoric tools, stone wedges and digging activity in those quarries, tracing them to around 3000 BC, the era when Stonehenge's first stage was constructed. It's rock-solid evidence that humans were involved in moving these "bluestones" to where they sit today, a full 150 miles away, the researchers say. "It finally puts to rest long-standing arguments over whether the bluestones were moved by human agency or by glacial action," University of Southampton Archeology Professor Joshua Pollard said in an email. Slashdot reader schwit1 adds: "This leaves the question of how..."
TL;DR It was aliens
There is no way that anything useful ever came out of Wales.
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What is much more amazing IMHO is that public transit manages to move creimette from San Jose to Palo Alto everyday!
things were simpler when we were self replicating? like an audition/auction scenario now?
Would make anyone look for diversions. Moving rocks is childs play.
Ok they had autumnal full bodied mead, but that is no excuse for laziness.
Have we learned nothing from the Lord of the Rings: Wizards. That's how the stones were moved.
It's obvious how they were moved.
They were moved by a truck and a crane after being dynamited out of the quarry.
We can still do this today, when everything is going downhill in civilization.
or Fed Ex?
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It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Haven't we established that 3000 BC people had figured out rolling large rocks on logs? Had quite possibly figured out the pulley? And just maybe had barges or wagons?
You don't quarry stone unless you already know how to get it where you need it, and humans in 3000 BC had far more 'technology' than we like to remember.
Why are we always so disbelieving that by the time 3000 BC humans had solved a lot of problems and gained a fair bit of knowledge about the world around them?
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I've been reading this is the established hypothesis for, IDK, prolly 10 years or more now. There's sure as hell a lot o f"documentaries" and documentaries o NGC/BBC/etal that have been saying that as long as I can remember.
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The stones where carved on place by lizards
The new parts aren't quoted or are understated.
1. We already knew about the quarries, what we didn't have were the actual tools used. We now have them, including wooden items.
2. We already knew about how they could have moved the stones, they're smaller and lighter than sarsens, we didn't know the route. We now know some were transported overland.
3. We didn't know if the stones were quarried specifically for Stonehenge or for a circle in Wales that was dismantled and recycled. We now know it was the former.
The real mystery is why people make a mystery of the known, when the unknown is potentially more interesting.
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I thought they were hewn into the living rock?
Previous iterations of the stonehenge were made from straw. But that one was blown away, so then they made the next one out of wood. That one also blew away.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
This is old news, there was a BBC documentary about Stonehenge's bluestones several years ago, it covered their source in Wales and how they moved, crossing rivers and mounted. They were also able to move them easily on a bed of logs with few dozen volunteers; load them on to log canoe rafts and mount them with eath ramps and A-frame cranes.
The Welsh might look like Aliens but we don't use that sort of language in UK any more.
Space aliens obviously. Or more mundanely, by a lot of motivated people hauling a bunch of rocks a really long way on logs or a sled of some kind.
Britain didn't use the imperial system in 3000 BC either, the clue is in the the name. To top it off the metric system was invented by James Watt, the Scottish Physicist in 1790s and promoted world wide by a British Science academy. The Imperial system wasn't adopted until well into the 1800s.
You left out the postal service. If they had used the postal service, the stones would have been stolen or thrown away halfway there.
One guy can move big blocks of stone by hand.
This construction worker figured it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just use the hardness of stone in your favor.
He places the rock on 2 small stones, balances it on one, then rotates and lets it down on the other. And there's rolling logs, etc.
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I was at Stonehenge. All the rocks are clearly labeled "made on China".
Maybe an anthropologist can explain why 'moving stones' around was such a demonstration of faith for the ancients. Stonehenge, Carnac, later Pyramids, Moai, possibly the earliest demonstration of group 'engineering', but why? Or maybe these are their only achievements that haven't been erased by time.
I saw this on PBS last year.
I got much closer than you suggest, but not as close as the goats who stepped over the 6 inch high fence.
If you aren't "drawn" to the location, driving passed is more than sufficient. Don't feel like you missed much. You didn't.
I'm not spiritual, but I was drawn to the location. Unfortunately, the coach also wanted to take us shopping in Bath for 4+ hrs as well, so I only got 90 minutes at Stonehenge. Also, the coach went out of their way to avoid the motorway and make us feel like we were visiting some tiny village ... until you finally are walking around the stones and see the vehicles about a quarter mile away zooming passed.
The real thing I learned from visiting Stonehenge is that humans do stupid things for made up reasons and have for 10,000 years. It will likely continue until we are all killed off. After all, I paid 88 quid to get shuttled at 6am to a bus station and spend multiple hours on a coach with strangers being told the same stuff that wikipedia has about Bath and Stonehenge, returned to London around 8pm.
Tips: Don't buy their audio program if you have a smartphone. There is free wifi at the location and you can download the same mp3 files to your phone, for free. Bring ear plugs.
I visited on a Tuesday morning. At 1 point, I was the only person near the stones. It was early enough that the morning fog hadn't burned off.
Porch pirates would have stolen them
The next question isn't "how?", it's "why?" Presumably, there were lots of other places much closer where the stones could have been quarried.
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> It finally puts to rest long-standing arguments over whether the bluestones were moved by human agency or by glacial action
Who was having this argument?
If your construction project has a step that involves "glacial action" or relies on it in any way, shape or form, you *know* it's going to end up late and over budget.
A napkin with a crude diagram, annotated with the text 18"
rock-solid evidence that humans were involved
Nope, rock-solid evidence that tool users were involved. Were human bones found holding a chisel? Any number of possible other explanations.
if it was Fedex, they would have been broken 5 ways.
Have you seen the state of Stonehenge?
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