site. By a guy in Michigan using simple methods.
"The Power Of One"
You never know what you can do unless you try. No one has offered a
solution of how ancient man could have moved such large stones into
place at Stonehenge until now. The next thing he has to do is figure
out how the ancients were able to move the huge stones the two
hundred odd miles over land and water from the quarry when they were
milled to the location where they were erected.
John
Stonehenge Engineering
One clever guy, alone, showed how pieces could have been moved into
place.
This guy proposes a solution to something that has confounded
scholars for centuries. And not only figure it out, but demonstrate
it!
This guy could build a replica of Stonehenge single-handedly during
the time a committee of Civil Engineering professors from leading
universities would be debating how it might be done.
http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/moving_big_rocks
Jorge
--- In Ancientartifacts@yahoogroups.com, "tuppennyblue" <tim@...>
wrote:
>
> BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge digalso
video clips at source URL:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7337292.stm
>
>
> 'Breakthrough' at Stonehenge dig
> By Rebecca Morelle
> Science reporter, BBC News
>
>
>
> Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.
>
> Professor Darvill explains what is happening at the Stonehenge dig
>
> Archaeologists carrying out an excavation at Stonehenge say they
have broken through to a layer that may finally explain why the site
was built.
>
> The team has reached sockets that once held bluestones - smaller
stones, most now missing or uprooted, which formed the site's
original structure.
>
> The researchers believe that the bluestones could reveal that
Stonehenge was once a place of healing.
>
> The dig is the first to take place at Stonehenge for more than 40
years.
>
> The team now needs to extract organic material from these holes to
date when the stones first arrived.
>
>
> Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.
>
> Professor Geoff Wainwright explains why the dig is taking place
>
> Professor Tim Darvill, of Bournemouth University, who is leading
the work with Professor Geoff Wainwright, of the Society of
Antiquities, said: "The first week has gone really well. We have
broken through to these key features.
>
> "It is a slow process but at the moment everything is going exactly
to plan."
>
> The two-week excavation is being funded by the BBC and filmed for a
special Timewatch programme to be broadcasted in the autumn.
>
> Professors Darvill and Wainwright say that finding out more about
the history of the bluestones could be key to solving the mystery of
why the 4,500-year-old landmark was erected.
>
> They believe that the bluestones, which were transported 250km from
the Preseli Hills in Wales to the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, were
brought to the site because the ancient people believed they had
healing properties.
>
> Professor Geoffrey Wainwright said the site could have been
a "Neolithic Lourdes".
>
> The giant sarsen "goal posts", which came from about 20km away,
were thought to have arrived much later.
>
> As well as reaching the bluestone sockets, the archaeologists have
also unearthed a whole host of other finds as they have peeled back
the layers of the 2.5m-by-3.5m trench.
>
> These include a beaker pottery fragment, Roman ceramics and ancient
stone hammers.
>
>
> Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.
>
> Yvette Staelens reveals some of the unearthed treasures
>
> Daily text and video reports on the Stonehenge dig are published at
the BBC Timewatch
>
> . A BBC Two documentary will be broadcast in the autumn and will
detail the findings of the investigation
> Story from BBC NEWS:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7337292.stm
>
> Published: 2008/04/09 10:42:39 GMT
>
> © BBC MMVIII
>
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