Stonehenge Secret Revealed!!!

[Cyanist]

Before dawn this morning, I watched NOVA. It appears as though the massive stones for Stonehenge were hauled on a plank set over a grooved track using ball bearings chiseled from stone: Here's some transcript from the episode:

NARRATOR: Masons may have roughly shaped the sarsens at the quarry site, using pounding stones. But they left few clues to how they moved and raised giant stones.

LEADER (Dramatization of Stonehenge masons gathering stones): One, two, three, four!

NARRATOR: So researchers have experimented.

Stone Age Britain did not have the wheel, but people may have pulled large stones over rollers made of tree trunks. Perhaps they laid timber tracks and slathered them with grease. A wooden sled with a keel would have kept the stone centered over the tracks. Raising a giant stone involved somehow tipping it into a giant hole. Lintels may have been pulled up ramps and levered into place. All these techniques are plausible. There's just no evidence they were actually used.

Now there's a new theory.

Andrew Young became obsessed with carved stone balls during graduate work at the University of Exeter. Some of these prehistoric objects are elaborately engraved, but many are unadorned.

Most have been found in northeast Scotland, an area known for its stone circles. These artifacts defy explanation.

ANDREW YOUNG (The University of Exeter): People had said they might be weapons or for throwing or, uh, possibly pounding vegetables, kinds of things that you could do with portable stone objects. Nothing that anybody had really said about them satisfied my question: "What are they for?"

NARRATOR: Young taught himself to carve replicas and pondered one strange fact. Many carved balls, engraved and plain, have exactly the same diameter.

ANDY YOUNG: Large numbers are identical in size, to the millimeter. And why would they need to be identical in size? And that just gave me that eureka moment. "Wow. If you're going to use them as a wheel you need them to be the same size."

BRUCE BRADLEY: Andy brought this theory to me. I was astounded, because it just made sense. It's just so obvious. Why didn't somebody think of this before?

NOVA | Secrets of Stonehenge

[Lacquer Head]

No! It was aliens! Ancient. ****ing. Aliens.

[Xanatos]

We underestimate our ancestors and just how resourceful they actually were, with that being said there are still a lot of structures we have dificulty recreating with modern tehnology let alone in those conditions, like those statues (Moai) on Easter island and their transportation.

[Rowan]

Slaves forced to work under the threat of death for disobedience. Cant get anymore productive than that. Pyramids were easily explained this way, as well as the advanced system of pulleys that were utilizes in their construction. I don't see why stone henge is such a big deal.

[che]

LMAO at these poll options! wp, wp

[loaf]

Slaves forced to work under the threat of death for disobedience. Cant get anymore productive than that. Pyramids were easily explained this way, as well as the advanced system of pulleys that were utilizes in their construction. I don't see why stone henge is such a big deal.

Partially true. Other then slaves, there had to be people who TRULY believed in whatever the hell they were being told in the building of that shit. Beer, slaves and believers, that's how it got built.

Hell, construction workers had troubles building the Luxor back when it was being built.

Stonehenge is just a giant clock for agriculture.

[Rowan]

Partially true. Other then slaves, there had to be people who TRULY believed in whatever the hell they were being told in the building of that shit. Beer, slaves and believers, that's how it got built.

Hell, construction workers had troubles building the Luxor back when it was being built.

Stonehenge is just a giant clock for agriculture.

I retract my statement about slaves building the pyramids. Attendance logs disproved that slaves were the ones who constructed the pyramids, dont know about stone henge. I learned that from a virtual classroom in persona 4 golden. My year 8 history teacher said games are a waste of time. Mrs.Predoux, eat your heart out, bitch.

[Dranzer]

I thought a giant just took a really big shit and it sat there for so long it turned into stone....

[Clint]

Whoever build Stonehenge, they built it not just with stone balls, but with dong power! It takes big, strong men to build a structure that stands the test of time. The cave women were back in their cave kitchens cooking up prehistoric mammoth meat sandwiches for the cave men building Stonehenge.

Slaves forced to work under the threat of death for disobedience. Cant get anymore productive than that. Pyramids were easily explained this way, as well as the advanced system of pulleys that were utilizes in their construction. I don't see why stone henge is such a big deal.

Yeah, like slaves could have done that. Black people wouldn't have been able to build the pyramids! They would have build a basketball court or something instead.

[Heartless Angel]

It's not as difficult as it might seem.

[RamesesII]

Like Rowan said Stonehenge is dull in comparison to the architectural geniuses of ancient Egypt and they used the same principals, logs under the slabs of stone and lots of man power pulling up gradual sloped ramps. All our modern day mechanical ingenuity was created from these ancient architects and engineers we just improved on them.