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They dragged 25 ton stones, 18 miles, to build Stonehenge; while some Americans can't even be bothered to wear a mask to save the lives of their fellow citizens.
Good point
Yeah, most of the people back then were far more scientifically literate than anti-maskers.
Elon Musk is digging tunnels for no reason and sending random stuff into orbit tho "we will find a use later..."
Would it be a joke on us if stonehhenge was just that ....
Why we putting these rocks in alignment with stars...
"...I dunno seems like it might be useful or so...figure out the why later..."
Ok, Neolithic Elon musk...
Pretty much
â@@jorgepeterbarton You don't know what tunnels and satellites are used for?
Scientists discovered an ancient Home Depot about two blocks away.
No free delivery .
Scientists discover an ancient cinema 3 blocks away
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you mean B&Q?
Anything that starts with âscientists discoveredâ is of no value.
Stonehenge was probably just a meme for our ancient ancestors.
LOL
As far as stone working and megalith logistics is a a culturally transferable phenomenon,
anything that can be shared or taught is memetic.
I bet you some drunk guys thought it would be funny to put some stones in the middle of no where
StoneHenge is older than the pyramids and holds many intentional designs related to seasonal alignments with the Sun on specific junctions that still work today.
@@sc00b4s7eve Visitors to StoneHenge during Brittonic pre-history would have smiled and danced with minimal need for intoxicants.
I can just imagine a crazy guy 5000 years ago,
âOy mates, who else wants mess with our descendants?â
*proceeding to pull a few rocks and stack them on top of each other of each other.*
@Adrian Cantu doesn't matter get ratioed homie
Iâm gonna plant a coffin in my yard so archeologists get confused
1. Ancestors 2. The pyramids were being and some had been bulit at the same time
Maybe it was built by some giant people who were playing LEGO with giant stones.
The stone henge looks like someone was trying to make a house of really long heavy rocks they found but then they realized they didnât have enough rocks to finish it
That's how something in Rochester, NY looks. It's like parts of walls with doorways but looks undone
Here's something I learned from my Art History Class:
The stones from stonehenge were believed to be a part of an ancient religious spiritual ceremony. approximately 15 miles away from stonehenge is another site called woodhenge which features wooden blocks instead of stone blocks. Historians believe that, on the winter solstice, prehistoric people would drag stones from woodhenge all the way to stonehenge and place the stones in a circular pattern to symbolize the process of life and death (wood implies life, stone implies death).
Woodhenge is around 2 miles from Stonehenge.
Actually Stonehenge is probably a burial site, they've found a lot of human remains around it.
Interesting, thanks for sharing :)
Easy. a 40 meter tall giant walked about 10 minutes with about 20 of these rocks and placed them to be a marble ring.
And then Obama clapped
Aaron Turner..Exactly what I was thinking maybe a giant put em there
One ring to confuse them all
That's what I'm saying!
Nah, i think they sat on them
"Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that...and then we can party!"
- Bill Bryson
looks like a giant was stacking his dominoes got bored and left it there.
Then he went to build Giants' Causeway. After that he threw some glacial stones into random fields.
At first I was confused because I remembered when they figured out they came from Wales.
But I guess I misremembered that they just meant the smaller ones.
I could see reporters assuming if the little ones were from Wales, the big ones were too. And scientists reading it afterwards like, " we never said anything about the big ones! " XD
I was told also, 15 years ago, they all come from Wales.
Yes, it was always said that it was the "smallest" ones coming from Wales. Which is remarquable in itself, might be why some of us confused a bit đ€
It's purpose was to attract the jellyfish of Jellyfish Fields
Funny, that spongehenge episode xD
The purpose? When you dont have internet, games television, ect... and you have 40 years of spare time on your life...
Actually, that is an interesting Idea. Even if it didn't apply to Stonehenge, how many of these ancient mysteries could be down to nothing more than "I had nothing better to do".
Even less than 200 years ago (not 2000!) life expectancy was about 40 years, I seriously doubt they would have lived that long 5000 years ago. On the plus side, they lived healthier than we do, but OTOH they had NO defense against most lethal diseases, and lived in a way more dangerous environment. I'd give them 25 years, 30 tops.
Steven Van Hulle how come they live healthier than us when they die earlier
@@trash0175 most likely because they ate cleaner and got more fitness in, since they didn't have fast food, but they died earlier because of diseases, they had no vaccines and less effective medicine, someone could've easily died from the flu or something
@@trash0175 Because your lifestyle isn't the only thing which determines your life expectancy. More or less what fy says.
Probably got together and said âhey, letâs build a thing to mess with future peopleâ
Stonehenge was built as an obtuse distraction from the real secret: a pot of incan gold buried 20 yards away.
And how, exactly, were the Druids traversing the Atlantic to acquire Incan gold 5000 years ago? That's 4000 years earlier than the Viking (and possibly Chinese) earliest crossings. Insufficient naval technology....
@@thirstfast1025 He was being sarcastic.
@@amensandhu705 Well, don't I feel silly then. Wait, no, I was being sarcastic too... Yeah, that's it... LOL!
@@thirstfast1025 Hahah, good one mate.
BottledBanana They Incas lived in South America.
"Cognition is beautiful, is good to know"
- John M. Hull
The people who made the Stonehenge are still laughing. đ€Ł
1:24 - 1:26
Editor mistake. đȘ
Purpose is unknown?
I remember reading that it was used as a clock, calendar and used for astrology
It was meant to be some sort of burial site or something that had to do with death
Its a solar/lunar calender. This has been proven and known for years. I dont know why videos keep lying about how we dont know.
In reality none of you know for sure. Unless you were alive to witness it, you do not know.
I personally do not know.
Its an easy thing to admit...to some.
No, it's used as a landing pad for alien's đœ
Didn't they find human remains in one of the pits surrounding it a few years ago?
Letâs not pretend like people dragged those stones. Animals did it, just like they were used to plow fields.
No it was aliens and antigravity. And the Earth is flat.
@@TheJosep70 lmao
Or slaves
@@xo4812 England is too far north for widespread slavery. For slavery to work on large scale, you need an almost constant food supply, which doesn't happen when you have winter dropping below freezing for long periods of time.
@@xo4812 It existing doesn't mean it existed in the time of stonegenge, which had most villages foraging and hunting, with rudimentary farming at most.
Has anyone ever checked for the decayed remnants of a wooden roof of any sort in the soil?
It would probably come out as a soil layer at this point, considering the climate.
I was just wondering.
Stonehenge was not a building so no roof to look for, itâs a big Calendar (or that is what itâs thought to be) as every year it aligns with the sun set at the summer solstice.
@@cammysmith7562 Thank you! An underappreciated comment
@@cammysmith7562 yup this was one and probably its primary purpose although for something so massive for the time it probably served multiple purposes.
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Well thereâs the other henges not too far away, and the burial mounds surrounding, so ceremonial or funeral rites a likely usage too.
@@cammysmith7562 What benefit would this provide the people who built it? Or is thought to be more for a religious / spiritual purpose?
This is so cool, and love the music in the background as well!
Ikr
"The site is about 15 miles away from the Stonehenge" what were they doing in those 400 yrs?đ€
whocares .u?
Not getting enough funding, digging and exploring the other relevant sites? Waiting for that dude to hand over his core sample?
I dont remember the last time I've walked 15 miles n
@@lapieddzac6447 Fifteen miles is two thirds of a marathon. To walk that amount is very decent. To drag monoliths is monumental.
Look up "Stonehenge 1958 rebuild"
On the summer solstice I tried weed with some of the druids there, it was lit
You smoked weed amongst the stones with some druids? Not sure I believe that.
They have got my initials carved into them though. Keeping good company too, alongside Sir Christopher Wren.
Jet Stream
Nobody said it was.
The first Druids were pre-Celtic Britons though, and current Druids are still allowed there on the solstices.
@@Elephantstonica current druidism is also a modern religion mostly based on guesswork,rather than replication of an old religion. 20th century,even.
jorgepeterbarton
Aye, no doubt. Arenât most all religions replications or interpretation?
I appreciate the music choice for this video; gives me very strong Secret World vibes, which I feel is fitting.
Isn't it wonderful when we finally find an answer that just raises more questions.
At least that is job security for a few more generations. Maybe after they find out how these were moved it will raise a dozen more.
Well, that's how science works after all.
I saw this in a news article, local I think, Thanks for the vid.
West Wood? That's a strange name for an alien mothership.
I thought Aliens brought these from another planet (I am being sarcastic)
Hi being sarcastic, I'm Dad
@@christiant.1113 Hi Dad, when are you coming back?
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@@mumsaccount5507 Thanks mum.
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I had the pleasure to visited Stonehenge with my wife in a private tour 2015.
That was the most magical moment since We were able to see the sunset with no one around.
That was one of my teenagers dream :)
I was not expecting something this literal about the Stonehengeâs ORIGINS đ
When I was a child in the 1970s we used to play on the stones but now you can barely go near them. It lasted 5,000 years and suddenly its untouchable.
Didn't Chevy Chase back the car up and knocked them all over
Me : reads title
My brain : they CAME OUT of A rock
Valuable info to know before I pass to my next life.
And I couldnât even bring myself to reach for the remote which was just in front of me.
How old is this footage? Now This News must have been digging through the archives to find this gem. This has been known about for many years!
The "why" is only a guess. But it's very probable that an Emperor or a great king wanted to impress or pay tribute to a lady.
I was waiting for a jumpscare. If y'know what I mean.
Aliens. Solved it for you đ
purpose:
the combination of a solar and lunar calender, marking the equinoxes
Stonehenge is used to make a nether portal but prehistoric people doesn't know Obsidian yet and they thought they could make a nether portal by using stones, but it didn't work, so they make every attempts but all of them didn't work so, they just moved on and left, lmao
Nice video keep up the good videos.
English isnÂŽt my first language, and I love to hear words I donÂŽt know before. Adding "ubiquitous" to my list of new words to learn.
Is "nudiustertian" already on your list? It means referring to two days ago. (I don't know anybody, including native English speakers, who know the word, though)
Its a posh British word
@@stevenvanhulle7242 No, thatŽs an English word I didnŽt know! Thank you for adding it. I just realized that I didnŽt know a English word for "the day before yesterday", I would just say "the day before yesterday". In my language itŽs super common word to use. Yesterday is "i gÄr" and the day before yesterday is "i förrgÄr". But perhaps I shouldnŽt start using nudiustertian among native British speakers. It sounds a bit like Nudius Tertian would be a friend of Biggus Dickus from Life of Brian...
@@oc911 Probably thatÂŽs why I never learnt it. But itÂŽs never to late to add some posh British words to ones vocabulary!
âReally excitedlyâ the answer turns out to be very boring
It's clearly not boring for those who finally found a definite origin after 400 years.
I didnt understand what they are saying so it is boring because its talked by british people and again i didnt understand what they were saaying
It's actually a prison too EZ to escape lol
Aliens: I keep on wondering why humans are facinated at my happy potty place!
How did they even lift one sarsen up and lay it on top of two sarsens horizontally?
That is what you call determination
According to a Druid Priest, Legend says that they had rituals on Hallows Eve and summoned Elfin Fire đ„ from the Heavens which would consume their human sacrifices.
I wanna know how they got the horizontal stones on top of the vertical ones đ€
I got 2 theories for their purpose.
1. They are grave sites for some obvious important people. Considering we still use stones for our gravesites it makes sense.
2. A place of meeting for clans. Clan meets were common back then.
I always thought of these as ancient lego of giants.
Breaking : China lays claim to the stones ...Emporor Ping pong ruled these land 1000 years ago
The purpose is obvious & is backed up by all the human remains there....it was a memorial to their dead. What really fascinates me is that 5000 years...we STILL use stones to mark where we bury our dead. How is it that a custom from ancient man still carries on today? Tombstones show a connection between us & Pyramid builders/circle stone builders/megaliths to small church stones all over the world.
Its a custom because hard stone can survive for decades without eroding. But with cheap mass produced metals now, most cemeteries no longer use stone.
15 miles means 24 kilometre btw.
It was an ancient swingers resort
Missing is the paint, stucco and wood that made the finished walls.
cool part is guy held on to samples for 40ty yrs,sad part is guy never knew what his samples would bring to light.
Sad that older stone circles, that predate this one, are not having mich media attention
I thought we already knew where the stones came from or at least a rough general area of where they came from, much like the pyramids. I feel like I already knew this by watching an old documentary about Stonehenge or Iâm merging two different ancient groups that used heavy rocks for their build, Stonehenge & pyramids
If i had the guess the whole purpose was for a type of temple or a probably a place of worship. Or could be a place of important events or gatherings for the original community.
Not sure why but I like to think about the stones shaped together meant to be the gates to another realm
The chance of find the purpose for these stones is insanely. But hey, there are a lot of unsolved mysteries in the universe.
I don't think it is unrealistic to think that people 5,000 years ago were much more bigger in stature then the average person today. It may have been rather easy for a group of people to lift one of these large rocks.
The stones were chiseled out of a large rock formation and a wheel was built around them. The wheel was then brought upright and simply rolled to the destination. They had the wheel back then so why would people think they dragged the stones.
Stone henge is an attempt to make a huge wheel to move the most amount of rock that they could in the largest wheel they ever made. The wheel is formed with vegetation that could be weaved.
They were able to roll this wheel a great distance, but it never made it to it's destination. It fell over. People died. A lot of the rock was moved further, but these rocks remained as a memorial.
It's a memorial of a work accident.
What if the Stonehenge was a tool to show what time it was
They should look for the needle in a hay stack next.
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That's easy. Burn the hay and wave a magnet over the ashes.
Theyâre 15 miles apart today but whoâs to say the tectonic plates didnât pull them apart over thousands of years. Perhaps they didnât drag it that far.
This just in: they were ordered from IKEA!
what the stones used for has not been a mystery for quite some time, for several years we have known that it's simply used for celebratory or ritual purposes of the solstices.
Maybe Stonehenge was an abandoned project to build a castle. The creative director died, and work was just too much work to continue.
What I want to know is how it took them 400ish years to find the location only 15 miles away...
Where did they think it would have come from? Imported from mainland Europe on express delivery?
We never knew where these stones could have came from.... oh looks like it was just a few miles away.....
Maybe that site wasn't 15 miles away 5000 years ago?
Geologists may have noticed...or they must all resign.
It's weird to see this lovely lady stick so rigidly to humans and animals dragging 1000s of tons in the 80 stones....I don't see that "project" happening 5000 years ago, it's would be an insane undertaking now with the slopes of the landscape
Not only dragging but stacking..how? 20+ ton stacked
Same place as avebury?
Seems like less effort,avebury guys had it bit easier.
Must be some sacred connection.or at least they knew big enough rocks were there in Marlborough.
*When this Corona thingy is over I want to checc this place out.*
Deadass thought they meant Stonehenge helped them discover where all stones came from
My two best guesses are the beginning of a structure that went unfinished for some reason, OR some kind of religious monument to their gods. Itâs probably safe to say one of those is correct.
Hi All, She mentions how hard it would be to move the stones, thru bogs. They almost certainly moved the stones in the dead of winter, over roads made of snow and ice. It would have only taken a few dozen men to get them started moving, about half that to keep them moving. The climate was enough colder back then, its how I would have done it. The bogs would have been frozen solid. Thanks for your time, take care.
We're currently engaged in leaving much more monolithic head scratchers for our decendents.
Itâs hard to believe that it took so long to figure out the stones came from somewhere 15 miles away lol. I guess they wasnât that interested in the origins.
I think whoever built Stonehenge were the ones to discover the origins of where the stones came from
What if the purpose of the stones is to cover some caverns underneath?
5000 years ago that would have been a fool proof way of keeping something secret.
The pandorica opens. :)
Alhira this one gets it!
So it taken 400 years of research to find out that the rocks came from 15 miles away
The Stonehenge is childâs play compared to the Elora caves in India. They even carved a perfect temple out of a whole mountain like they used a giant 3D printer.
Lelouch Lamperouge : Maybe there is another way to look at the way the Elora temple was built. That is, it might be built with cement concrete from the bottom to the top, instead of being carved from top to the bottom. This sequence of building is very critical. If the temple was built by carving a solid stone, you had to begin from the top and finish at the bottom. If the temple was built with cement concrete, you began from the bottom and finished at the top. This way, after building, you would not have scraps left behind since you had consumed all the cement. If you carved, you must leave a lot of craps behind. Yet there are many such temples in India but we never saw one piece of scrap anywhere.
Aliens needed the structure to get their UFOs outa here, reverse crop circle yeehaw
I think Spinal Tap knows the mystery!!!
LOL! Thank you for reminding me of that!
It's an ancient drive in of some sort I bet
I certainly wouldn't say "prehistoric"
But when does the Pandorica open?
You can call me crazy but this is my belief. The great mystic âMerlinâ command giants to carry stones to create a sacred temple to the Druids and other mystics and practitioners.
It wouldn't be so hard to move if they had giants... Dozens of skeletons 10-25 feet tall are found every year and yet the stories and findings are often covered up.
Has moving 25 tonne rocks on logs ever been tested? Would they not just shatter into splinters? What type of trees were in the area that could take this kind of weight over such a distance and how much land would have been cleared just to move these stones? Unreal!
Daniel O'Kelly: I think the stones at Stonehenge were never moved. They were built with cement right where they stand now. We can derive this idea from the erosion of the stones. They are eroding too fast as compared with natural stones which will never be eroding so fast.
Interesting đ€
I thought it was only the bluestones that were still of unknown origin.
Thatâs upsetting. Like it was a massive discovery... At any time the truth could have been know if âthe only core sampleâ wasnât privately owned and taken almost to the ownerâs death bed. And on top of that: as if it wasnât the most obvious idea to look in expanding radiusâs around Stonehenge for the source of the materials.
Bit of a PR stunt. They always figured those woods were the spot. The core sample just proved it.
Purpose is to blow your mind..
Scientists discover stonehenge is nothing more that rocks in a field because thatâs what it actually is
And I guess you're just a sack of bones? đ€
BME91 arenât we all captain obvious
@@instahawk8422 nah just you. If that's what you think, you would've been a better rock.
BME91 ok cave man enjoy your stones in your field
BME91 you sure do enjoy using lame insults Iâm a sack of bones now Iâm a rock you must have a list written down for occasions just like this đ€Ł
It was the druids who made stongehenge, no one knows who they are, or...what they were doing-Nigel Tufnel