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They should probably work on a bio-weapon a la 12 Monkeys. Everybody knows what their demands are but nobody cares.

I thought it was ropes and log rollers?
Still ingenious, just a lower level of technology.

Ground sloths. Slow but good reach for lintel work and claws great for pointing.

They reckon the ground sloth would kick the sabre-toothed tiger's arse.

There was very little lifting required in building Stonehenge.

The most logical explanation is that they just built up earth banks around where they wanted to put things, rolled the stuff up with logs/ropes and then dug a hole to slide it down into. The lintels would have been rolled into place and then all of the surrounding earth removed.

Frighteningly time consuming but then think about what technology existed then and when the pyramids were built.

Frighteningly time consuming

Yeah, but look at HS2 - at least the cavemen got the job done...

Stonehenge was meant to connect with Avebury and the Ridgeway, but they cancelled that because of escalating costs. Devizes only recovered when the canals arrived.

The most logical explanation

Thing is, we know next to nothing about the people who built it, let alone their technology. Modern views are that they were primitive and only had the most basic creations we can imagine, the likes of which weren’t even invented by our species but by a preceding ape (homo habilis made tools 2 million years ago, neanderthalis made elaborate clothing and jewellery to decorate their dead in complex funeral rites tens if not hundreds of thousands of years ago).

We believe homo sapiens sapiens has been physiologically pretty much the same for a couple hundred thousand years now. Was it really only a few thousand years ago that humans got creative and industrious enough to create wooden machines to lift things?

Not directed at you personally, but modern archeological convention strikes me as having a Victorian attitude to science, equating a (perceived) lack of cultural sophistication with an actual lack of cultural sophistication.

or a painting

An oil painting.

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Not really.
I support their cause and this shit annoys me.

Was it really only a few thousand years ago that humans got creative and industrious enough to create wooden machines to lift things?

So you think they used helicopters to fly the stones from Wales, then stand them upright on Salisbury Plain?

Telepathy. It’s the only explanation.

Telepathy.

Do you mean telekinesis?

Of course not, dear fellow, telekinesis isn’t real.

I was just going to say the same thing.

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Nah, we’re talking about moving giant stones.

The power of the mined.

Could I quarry the appropriateness of this pun?

Our ancestors needed a sense of place to think about erecting anything of any permanence.
If you are a hunter gatherer tracking the herds of reindeer using what became the Ridgeway along the southern edge of a retreating ice sheet, you might revisit places each year for annual crops, (potentially hazel nuts), you aren't anywhere long enough to build more than a temporary structure.
Agriculture anchors (proto-/neo-)humans to a place.

Aliens surely?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

Agreed, but our understanding of the chronology of human achievement is limited by what has survived through the ages. Prehistoric does not mean rudimentary: Göbelki Tepi predates Stonehenge by 5000 years. More time passed between the time that site was active and flourishing and the construction of Stonehenge than between Stonehenge and now, and we have no idea who built (the much more complex) gobelki tepi or how or why.

Probably people who’d now be called Turkish.

Can save millions of research money with that.

.megalithic.

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