How Ancient Stones Helped Track the Seasons
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2023
- Mysterious stone arrangements reveal Senegal’s ancient connections to astronomy.
Along the river Gambia in Senegal, there are more than a thousand stone circles. The people who placed these stones would have observed how the locations of sunrise and sunset varied over the year. By aligning the stones to these points, they would’ve been able to track the seasons.
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Full episode please!! 🙏 I love when PBS covers ancient human history!
Please when u get send it to us
Yep, a good segment...thank you so much for the video!
Oh that's just interesting science stuff right there
This seems very practical
Please where i can get the Full documentary
When he says the stones are lined up "close" to where the sun comes up for the equinox, I wonder....was it exactly where the sun came up 160p years ago?
So Senegal is about 5000 to 6000 years behind the rest of us?
COOL
I also made Perma form castles in walls and Petra
Unfortunately most of these researchers do not know of the 90° flip of earth that happens every 12k years.
This is why I love the comments. Pure comedic genius and your not even aware of how funny that is to normal people.
Tracking seasons? You're kidding, right? Place a circular metal pad atop Stonehenge, along with a gantry tower and you have a rocket launch pad. Think that is a crackpot theory? So is the idea that Hebrew slaves built the great pyramids of Egypt or that bronze age hunter/gatherers dragged twenty ton stones to Stonehenge, erected them in a circle and aligned them with the seasons. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
Hebrew slaves, or any other slaves, didn’t build the pyramids. They were built by paid labourers.
Hunter-gatherers weren’t stupid, and experimental archeology has proven that large stones CAN be moved by manpower alone.
Take off your tinfoil hat, and work your way back to reality.
@@kellydalstok8900 1) I have seen the inside of the Great Pyramid. Know what I saw? Weathered granite. Do you have any idea how long it takes granite to weather? When you ask a geologist, include the phrase "in a dry climate like Egypt." Furthermore, have you seen the boats in the Egypt museum that are alleged to have carried the twenty ton blocks down the Nile? Yeah, if lucky, those boats can hold 400-500 pounds before swamping. So, do some "experimental archeology" and scrounge up an ancient boat that can carry 20 tons plus a staff of "laborers."
Additionally have you read about Gobeckli Tepe or Gunung Padang? At the youngest, Gobeckli Tepe is 12k years old (because that is when it was buried. Wait, isn't civilization only 6k years old?) So, riddle me this Batman, if civilization is only 6k years old, how then was a technologically advanced city built more than 12k years ago? Same applies to Gunung Padang, it's more than 28k years old. How does this apply to the great pyramids of Egypt? The great pyramids were looted in the mid 1800's. Any meaningful clues were taken and either tossed, disappeared in private collections or just lost. So, if you were sitting on a jury, and you were told that 100 cops and some civilians wandered through a crime scene, touching this and that, it still remained a pristine crime scene....Geez, I truly hope that you'd voted for an acquittal because of lack of evidence. Finally, what's the difference between King Tut's tomb and the Great Pyramid. One is an actual tomb. So, with that said, are you still trying to peddle the fairy tale that the pyramids are tombs that are only 4.5k years old, built by laborers?
2) Stonehenge, all by itself, if the student is gullible, can swallow "we did some 'experimental archeology' and fitted a square peg into a round hole" and yeah, it was built by some hunter/gatherers that had some idle time, so they came up with an ingenious method to carry ten ton stones and align them with the seasons.
Now, let's widen out and not be so zoomed in on Stonehenge. There was a technologically advanced worldwide civilization that predates civilization by anywhere from 6k to 22k years. What then happened to all of this knowledge? Humans don't lose knowledge. Actually, humans never had that knowledge. And no, this isn't tinfoil hat territory, it is just that you not only drink the Kool Aid, you have a favorite flavor, whereas I am enlightened enough to say "A long long time ago, there were visitors here that did some amazing things, and then, for whatever reason, left."
I have more, so if you want to regurgitate some scientific babble, I'm ready.
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