How Stone Henge was built?

[Monsterlover]

Pretty cool!

http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/moving_big_rocks

[Rameses]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGbwIkvh38&feature=related

[lauramonster]

That's so cool!!!

Wanna see more

How'd he get the stones positioned in the first place so all he needed was rope, blocks of wood & stones?

[eltristo]

That is dang impressive.   

How'd he get the stones positioned in the first place so all he needed was rope, blocks of wood & stones?

I assume with the little stone technique, perhaps bolstered slightly with a small hole to start putting the boards underneath.

[He Man]

Man, i could finish that in half the time htey took, whats that like 1500 years? i would of just sacrafice a thousand men and disect their biceps and attatch it to the top of the stone, and then make a huge battery out of 1,000 lemons. then ill just shock the biceps and it will lift the stones when they contract.

[superjohn]

It's pretty amazing to consider the technology and capabilities that mankind has forgot.

[erkishhorde]

So... how does he lift the stone to get the pebbles under it to spin them? Also, that requires a solid surface under the stone.

[GLantern]

Wow that is amazing, so much for aliens

[gojira]

So... how does he lift the stone to get the pebbles under it to spin them? Also, that requires a solid surface under the stone.

+1

I'm assuming it was not entirely a solid surface moving the stones from their source back in the day.

Also, I'd like to see how he lifts up the stones for the crossbeams.

Still, overall, his technique is clever.

[gojira]

It's pretty amazing to consider the technology and capabilities that mankind has forgot.

I often wonder about this.

I get glued watching the Discovery/National Geographic/History/Whatever channels about evidence of past know-how and technologies. For example, the Antikythera Mechanism. Or strong evidence that Archimedes was more of a genius way ahead of his time that speculation suggests we'd be far more advanced these days had we known his thinking from his written records. Expand this further to include this guy.

Or, just what was burned in the fire of the Library at Alexandria?

I do think we sell our ancestors short.

[Scooter Montgomery]

I do think we sell our ancestors short.

Its so easy a caveman could do it. 

[Pakhan]

I bet that guy rocks fantastic contraption.

[Fresh Pants]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXGbwIkvh38&feature=related

 

[Rameses]

I bet that guy rocks fantastic contraption.

[Goldeneye]

So... how does he lift the stone to get the pebbles under it to spin them? Also, that requires a solid surface under the stone.

I think he uses a long lever to roll it over slightly.

As far as the solid surface goes, he mentions on his website about trenches.  I think he digs in rock/stones/whatever to make a solid surface.

I like watching him do his thing, no interest in doing it myself