Comments on: How to build Stonehenge https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:50:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Stacy https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530701 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:50:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530701 That’s cool Pyre. I’ll have to stop in the next time I go to the Keys

]]> By: Ian https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530700 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:37:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530700 “There’s also Strawhenge, Woodhenge, and Seahenge …”

I’m thinking of starting on hinge henge. Has anyone done that yet…?

]]> By: Pyre https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530699 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:03:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530699 The Coral Castle in Florida is another massive stone structure built “mysteriously” by one man using levers and pulleys. Quite a beautiful piece of work, and a terribly sad life story.

]]> By: Anon https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530698 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:48:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530698 That’s a fairly old video–any update?

]]> By: Moopheus https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530697 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:47:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530697 Even if he didn’t get all the details exactly right, it’s a pretty clear demonstration that it’s entirely within the realm of plausibility for the ancient Celts to have been able to move the stones and set them up with the resources that would have been available to them.

(It’s been a long time since I studied the literature, but I recall that in some of the early Arthurian chronicles, the moving of the stones is credited to Merlin, and one of the stories (Wace or Layamon, I think) describes it clearly as a large engineering project, not magic.)

]]> By: Richard https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530696 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:25:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530696 That’s an amazingly simple solution… so, what were the aliens doing if they weren’t needed to levitate the blocks?

🙂

]]> By: JuliaL https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530695 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:03:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530695 Colin M,

Or, perhaps he could pile up dirt around two of the standing blocks until they’re almost buried, and then the problem becomes getting the third block up the hill.

Or perhaps he could lay out the top block on the ground next to the two standing blocks, use his lifting technique with the boards, pause from time to time to fill in supporting dirt underneath so that he himself can climb the hill until the top block can just be slid sideways to rest on the tops of the standing blocks.

Or he could have started by building a hill and then digging really deep pits to drop the standing blocks into.

In all cases, he’d then have to cart away the dirt after it had acted as a temporary scaffold.

]]> By: Lilian Nattel https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530694 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:52:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530694 Wow and cool–I love the ingenuity and the fact that he has taken this on as an investigative project, come up with these solutions and tested them.

]]> By: David Lee https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530693 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:38:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530693 Wow. That could work. Just a few guys could put it together with those techniques. The hardest part would then be getting the quarried stone there. Now everything I read in National Geographic as a kid seems suspect…

]]> By: Colin M https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530692 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:28:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/02/08/how-to-build-stonehenge/#comment-530692 Very interesting, though I’ll note he doesn’t address how to get the blocks on top, which to me is the most impressive part. I guess he could just use the same technique he used to get that block 3 feet high… it’s just a lot more time-consuming and dangerous 😉

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