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[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] bampop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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.

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[–] withabeard@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 day ago

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.

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