Oh, I see where he went wrong - "funny post".
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The British isles are just a series of new people showing up and saying “mmm don’t mind if I do” Like, I can think of at least 9 separate groups that invaded, integrating and displacing the already extant groups to different degrees. The saxons were like, at least 5 invasions after stone henge. Hell, the earliest versions of King Arthur are about a dude fighting off the Saxon invasions.
Isn't that the case nearly everywhere?
I've always wondered about the complete adoration British people have for Saxons out of all the many different succesful invading peoples in their history.
The french president called the british 'anglo-saxons' but that period of british history ended with the Norman and French invasion of the isles.
Not only could it be built today, it was rebuilt by a retired contruction worker named Wally Wallington in the 2000s. Here's his official site documenting it that's linked on his youtube channel.
Turns out, probably just took beams and small stones used respectively as levers and fulcrums to do it. Various aspects of his setup is likely not period-perfect, but I think he demonstrates pretty clearly that this isn't a forgotten ability, it's just been made obsolete by more modern methods.
Here's Wally's final creation as far as I can tell.
It was also rebuilt perfectly in Esperance Australia as it would have looked when it was new
Isn't the big mystery that the stones originate from across the country?
There's no professor under this clown mask so please fact check
From this site ( ~~I only inspected briefly so it might be a conspiracy site idk~~^1^):
The massive outer stones came from about 15 miles north, the smaller inner stones traveled roughly 150 miles from Wales, and the central Altar Stone journeyed at least 750 kilometers from northeast Scotland
Quite impressive, though I think we've compiled a wide variety of ways that could have been done, and have been recreated, for moving massive stones like Stonehenge's. it seems less of 'how' and more of 'which method' that's the mystery at this point. Here's an article that articulates that sentiment, and a video of experimental historians replicating my favorite version of this.
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- ^1^ after giving it a more thorough look I feel safe saying this source is respectable.
and a video of experimental historians replicating my favorite version of this
Interesting how they keep it docile by blindfolding it. You don't want one of those things to get spooked and run around stomping on people.
You also have a (largely) farming population, who have work from the spring into the early Autumn. Then months on end of not much to do. Be drunk, eat into food reserves, stay warm and somehow stay strong enough to be useful farmers next spring. You have a bored population of young, drunk, possibly abusive, probably male.
If you want some semblance of control over that population, you create religion, you tax the religion, you convince people that their gods want them to move that stone. The stone gets moved by those people. The taxes feed and intoxicates them, the work keeps them warm. At different times in history you send them to join the army, build a pyramid, go on a crusade.
Dunno, I could be completely wrong. But it doesn't feel entirely wrong to me that we have a common problem that's been solved in a variety of ways in history and this could fit that pattern.
Pretty similar to the people showcasing that you can just use rope to walk the mo'ai statues in to place.
“traditional Saxon culture” is pretty funny too given it’s more like a bunch of German mercenaries turned up wearing Adidas and the Britons started wearing Adidas too because they thought it was cool.
Low on the IQ bell curve: "Modern British people couldn't make Stonehenge." (Conspiracy theory)
Middle of the IQ bell curve: "Nooo! Stonehenge was made using advanced but historically plausible techniques."
High on the IQ bell curve: "Modern British people couldn't make Stonehenge." (They are just bad at everything)
I grew up not far from stone henge, although Avebury is the better stone circle. It has a pub in the middle of it and I could cycle there from home. Been on a night hike around it too.
"My henge is better than your henge".
Well Stonehenge is tiny and they won't let you go up to the stones
It's only tiny because they used " instead of ' on the measurements.
Can we stop and get some henge?!
We have henge at home!
Henge at home:
Nah the modern ones would build half of it. Run it overbudget 3x and the abandon the project at about 65% completion due to increased costs and complications. It would take them 5 years to do it.
The London underground would never be constructed today. It would cost like 40 bajillion dollarydoos
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They are good at inading privacy
Pretty good at invading in general historically
Visit a Mediterranean beach during the summer and you’ll realize they’re still invading
"The beauty of British women and the taste of British food led Britain to become some of the greatest sailors in history."
Stonehenge could be built very quickly with today's machines and technology. But just like cathedrals, the problem isn't the means but the will: nobody wants to waste time and money on religious nonsense anymore.
You are completly right. If you have the will and the money, you could call a quarry today and order yourself some big stones. They will fit on an oversized load-truck. Call somebody with one or two of those big cranes. Perhaps also consult an architect or engineer who can calculate the structural integrity. We can totally do that.
Building Stonehenge today would end up in an ill advised contract structure between public and private stakeholders which would be partially responsible for a cost overrun of ~175% and it would ultimately get cancelled after a decade and a half or so when only ~30% was finished.
It would take a competent construction crew like 4 days
Yeah this was a joke about HS2
I don't know about the budget back then, but the real Stonehenge took like a millennia to complete so if anything that's actually finishing early.
Original plans were for a tower but it never got past the ground floor
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I have to stop you right there buster. Stonehenge is not "religious nonsense" it is literally a way to keep track of celestial movement and track the solstices. This allowed for ancient peoples to track the change of seasons and properly plan their agricultural activities. It was entirely practical, and very good at its job as it still works today to an extent.
It was entirely practical,
You can track the seasons using far fewer rocks at a much smaller size. So no, it really isn't.
oh and who are you the Rock Wrangler? The Time Tempter? The Henge Handler?
Fun fact, henges are a type of earthworks, doesn't have to have a circle, stone or otherwise.
Most henges are round though, because that's the most area for the circumference. And when you've been shoveling dirt for weeks, that matters.
Someone built a modern one in SW washington state, although I think it’s just cast concrete. Certainly doesn’t look as nice in person
That's extremely not true though. It's what most people waste most time on of anything
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Relevant Tom Scott video: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomscott-why-you-cant-touch-stonehenge
(Youtube version coming out in a couple hours)
It was most recently adjusted in 1963. Arguably it's still a work in progress.
Cool video I found of a guy named Wally Wallington building some Stonehenge-style monoliths in his backyard - single-handedly with no modern tools.
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