The ancient chinese were sailing all around the pacific while we were still in mud huts. I assume you forgot about the bronze age, the iron age etc. Just because you cannot figure it out, doesnt mean it didnt happen. You are hardly our societies yardstick for feasability studies. The Bronze age was circa 3500BC. Wood is also an extremely versatile material, extremely tough, durable and of such variety that it is astounding.
They hadn't stumbled across the iron age (not my opinion, just what I've read and watched), so bronze it was. Hardly a match for granite. And I still say wood wouldn't have been enough. Photos, or it didn't happen...
Most of the stones at Stonehenge & Avebury are sarsens, i.e. local sandstone. Only a few mainly smaller stones were shipped from South Wales.
Your wasting your time trying to convince someone who doesn't want to know Pete. Pseudoarchaeology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Correct. They came from the Marlborough downs about 40kms away. They were hauled overland, by people, from this planet.
I'm not even remotely interested in alien conspiracies, astrological bollocks, ley lines or any of that claptrap. But I can't see how the people that are supposed to have built these monuments did so with the tools and materials to hand. I think the archaeologists have got something wrong.
I reckon a lot of these monuments aren't quite as old as we're told. Add the use of metals into the mix and the job becomes a whole lot easier. Maybe the granite outer skin of the pyramids was added at a later date.
Funny how almost every TV prog centres on how far away the henge stones came from and what a feat it must have been, if in fact pebbles from a weekend away is all that made that particular journey One for @Pete1950 aliens AND religion Preternaturals of Creation
As already posted the outer face of the Great Pyramids were covered in smooth Limestone, the remaining pyramid is limestone blocks There are some Granite blocks inside where extra strength was needed spanning the interior chambers but they are just cut blocks, they aren't polished or shaped The largest granite stones in the pyramid, found in the "King's" chamber, weigh 25 to 80 tonnes and were transported from Aswan. Traditionally, ancient Egyptians cut stone blocks by hammering wooden wedges into the stone which were then soaked with water. As the water was absorbed, the wedges expanded, causing the rock to crack. Once they were cut, they were carried by boat either up or down the Nile to the pyramid. Stone is still cut in exactly the same way today. It is estimated that 5.5 million tonnes of limestone, 8,000 tonnes of granite and 500,000 tonnes of mortar were used in the construction of the Great Pyramid. Plant Material that is part of this Mortar has been Carbon Dated to exactly the period the Pyramids are thought to have been built. Other remains in the workers towns nearby have been dated to the same period. As for moving big rocks, they were quarried and moved by men. We know where the quarries are and in fact there are still incomplete Monoliths in some of the quarries including some olny part finished and some abandoned where they have cracked etc. for example the Stone of the Pregnant Woman in Baalbeck and the Unfinished Obelisk the largest known ancient obelisk and is located in the northern region of the quarries of Ancient Egypt in Aswan. It is nearly one third larger than any ancient Egyptian obelisk ever erected. If finished it would have measured around 42 m (approximately 137 feet) and would have weighed nearly 1,200 tons. It cracked before they finished cutting it from the Bedrock. In Rome there is the Lateran Obelisk the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, weighing 455 tons. It was originaly from the temple of AMun in Karnak. It was taken to Rome by lots of legionaries pulling it and a ship built to carry it. remember the Romans had little more than the Egyptians by way of technology or tools.
None of that explains how they lifted them. If you've ever seen a bunch of builders trying to lift a half ton RSJ into a building you'd appreciate my scepticism. Let's see a modern team cut a 200 ton block out of the rock, lift it from below ground level and place it on top of another rock. While using bronze chisels...
Would modern man have the skills? There aren't that many skilled stonesmiths these days, I mean how many could build a cathedral and carve all that stone
Interesting how these civilisations who erect great monuments to their own vanity always die out, either physically or culturally. Industrial societies don't seem to last. Australian aboriginal people have lived on their land for 40,000 years that we know of, almost certainly nearer 50,000 and some anthropologists believe 60,000 years. In that time they suffered no cataclysm, they did not become overpopulated nor deplete their resources and they lived healthy lives, for thousands of years surviving well into old age, living a life span comparable to our own. Yet they never tilled the land, kept livestock, worked metal, used currency, developed written language or erected a single permanent structure. And then enlightened white man turned up and civilised them with his technologies and destroyed them in less than two centuries. There's a lesson in there somewhere.
