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How was Stonehenge built?

How was the stonehenge built and why?

  • how did they do it? they had no machinery...

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    Ancient cultures were not nearly as backwards as we believe. The first flushing toilet, for instance, was installed in a Minoan palace around 1500 BC. As for Stonehenge, the 'why' we will never know, since that culture left no written records. Possibly the site is about astronomy, but we don't know for sure. The 'how' is still not completely explained, but the biggest problems there was dragging those stones from Wales - erecting them was quite easy, even in Neolithic times. Some have suggested that the stones were there already, left over by a glacier, others tried to replicate ancient sledges. It can be done, but it's hard work. It surely tells us a lot about the level of organization that society had.

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Never underestimate the power of religion to motivate and inspire incredible things. A community of farmers and fighters who led hard lives which usually killed them before they were forty banded together and built a place of worship, by hand and over about a thousand years, using the tools which were available to them and human ingenuity. They started using animal horn and ended using early bronze tools.

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The Stonehenge is believed to be built as possibly a large sundial, a sacrificial alter, a religious gathering place, or a ceremonial place. No one knows how it was exactly built.

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