New glacial creation theory for Stonehenge

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:05 am

I kid you not!
http://217.204.41.132/cgi/NGoto/2/146670785?2760

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:32 am

Did the glaciers stand them up in a circle too?

I read not so long ago that the actual quarry had been found and it was evident where the individual stones were taken from. I thought it was even proven by thermoluminescence testing.

I think this group is in for a peer group broiling.

Thanks RK

Post by **Minimalist** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:03 am

Did the glaciers stand them up in a circle too?

And the exact number of blocks needed and all of the same size? This theory was blasted in a tv special not too long ago where it was pointed out that the glaciers managed to drop the exact number of rocks needed as there are no others in the immediate area.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:16 am

Ah - good point. I saw that too. It's a little strange, this article. It didn't list any truly viable reasons for their position.

I have to believe that there is a formal scientific submission somewhere. I'd like to read it.

Post by **Minimalist** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:23 am

It didn't list any truly viable reasons for their position.

It's one of those ad hoc theories that people come up with to try to fit all the known facts in a given problem into a coherent solution....even if it doesn't make any sense.

In this case, they are saying that A) Stonehenge is there...it DOES exist and B) there is no way in hell that primitive Britons could have moved the stones to the site, ergo....the stones must have been there to begin with and that means they were left by the receding glacier.

I don't think RK buys the theory either.

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:27 am

No way she believes this. If we're wrong she'll tell us.

Furthermore, at circa 3000ya, my ancestors were all in the UK. Primitive Brits my ass.

Post by **Minimalist** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:56 am

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:09 am

You're too right I don't buy it-I think I've heard it all now!
Nice pic of Ringo in his (cave)rn days though!

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:14 pm

He should be Sir Ringo by now. The Fab Four wouldn't have gone anywhere without him.

RK, if you you run across an article over there about this "theory" please let us know.

Pippin · Post by **Pippin** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:58 pm

Hi

I think it is an interesting theory. Glaciers did transport wery big stones a long way. I dont like the argument, that becourse they were my ancestors, they moved the stones from Wales. And even if they didn't move the stones from Wales, then Stonehenge is stil an impresive monumnet, that proves that the ancient britons vere not primitive.

Pippin

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:24 am

Hi Pippin - my post above was an entirely tongue-in-cheek remark. It wasn't an argument.

I was trying to be a little silly, as was Minimalist with his picture of Ringo.

I didn't mean to cause any confusion.

Leona Conner · Post by **Leona Conner** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:05 am

What I'd like to know. How in the hell did the glaciers get those lintels up there so neatly?

Pippin · Post by **Pippin** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 9:20 am

Hi

Why cant people discuss a theory intelligent in this forum. I’m not sure if Leona is sirius or not in her question?

Pippin

Beagle · Post by **Beagle** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:19 pm

Pippin - I'm sure that Leona was joking also. It just means that we thought the theory was a bit ridiculous.

Glaciers certainly do move large stones, but I think that is about all that the author got correct.

If you have some thoughts on this, I'm sure we'll happily join in a discussion with you.

Pippin · Post by **Pippin** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:34 pm

As a Dane it sound like a very plausible explanation. Denmark had thousand of monolithic monuments from the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. They are all build by giant boulders transported by the ice from Sweden and Norway. The ice in Denmark was at time between 1-2 km thick and the last ice age was 100.000 years. The ice came from the high places in Norway and Sweden and moved to Denmark bringing gravel and boulders inside. The ice in a glacier is in a constant flow. Every summer there is much melding from the top and the front of the ice, producing large rivers, bout on the top, inside the ice and underneath the ice. At time the ice didn’t cover Denmark and sometime the ice came from north (Norway) and other times the ice came from east (Sweden). Big boulders might have been transported directly to Denmark from where the ice took it, other times it was court from another ice flow later and transported to a new location. All of Denmark’s landscape is made by the ice age, only weathering down and human activity has changed a little since. So it is quite possible that the stones for Stonehenge could have been made of blocks transported by ice. But that all depends on how the ice moved in that area. The article doesn’t really tell anything about that and the fact that some program on a history channel says otherwise doesn’t convince me, I have seen many programs on Discovery and National Geographic channel, which collaborated strange theories.

I couldnt find any good pictures of danish monolothicig monumets, but here are two small ones. The one picture is of peopel restoring an old grave.

Archaeologica.org

New glacial creation theory for Stonehenge

New glacial creation theory for Stonehenge

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