Stone Henge

[fishtail]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_henge

What was it used for, how were the stones transported, why would the people use so much effort to build it?

 

[Orleander]

and why do we still care?

 

[Nickelodeon]

it was built to entice aliens to visit us.

 

[ashpwner]

yea i can see why aliens came to see some rocks.

 

[Nickelodeon]

important rocks, arranged in a circle.

 

[ashpwner]

oh that makes all the difference i would be impresed if they made it the shape of bill gates face but i dout aliens would stil care!

 

[Nickelodeon]

no, a circle, thats the trick.

 

[ashpwner]

or maybea square, that's why it's unsecsesful you see?

 

[Fraggle Rocker]

What was it used for, how were the stones transported, why would the people use so much effort to build it?

If you can answer those questions, some really major university like Oxford or the Sarbonne will probably give you a PhD on the spot. This is one of the world's great mysteries. But they are making progress on it. For one thing, IIRC they just found evidence of a similar but smaller artifact having existed not too far away from it.

 

[fishtail]

If you can answer those questions, some really major university like Oxford or the Sarbonne will probably give you a PhD on the spot. This is one of the world's great mysteries. But they are making progress on it. For one thing, IIRC they just found evidence of a similar but smaller artifact having existed not too far away from it.

It is nice that there is one adult here

 

[Orleander]

fishtail, either you can't do math or you are a child.

 

[Facial]

What about the astronomical hypothesis? Is that still standing?

 

[fishtail]

What about the astronomical hypothesis? Is that still standing?

Why would a (tribe) want to expend so much energy on building such a structure to study alignments, when a wooden would do the same job
and last a life time.

 

[Orleander]

I've always been curious about the giant white horses myself.

 

[guthrie]

Yes, as far as I am aware the cosmological stuff still stands. There have been some interesting suggestions as well over the years. For example, one guy suggested that the central trilithons may have been covered over with a wooden roof, making an artificial cave similar to the real caves that have been demonstrated to have definite alignments down the passage to the central room. See for example Maes Howe on Orkney.

 

[Orleander]

Isn't Maes Howe a luner one?

 

[PreverseBeing]

No, Maes Howe is not lunar, it's in Scotland.

I have once heard somewhere else that the stones are actually used to keep time. People would relate the position of the sun to the stones.

Another thing I heard is that its used as a temple for something...

 

[guthrie]

Maes Howe, IIRC correctly and I can't be bothered finding the book that mentions it, is more to do with the summer solstice and Venus, not the moon. Google suggests it is the Ring of Brogar that is lunar related.

 

[Orleander]

thanks Guthrie!

Have they figured out the reasons for the horses yet?

 

[guthrie]

No. It would be great to know, and maybe if they ever excavate one they will find some interesting stuff buried, but I'm not holding out much hope.