How the fuck do you build something like this with basically

Carefully

A fucking pile of rocks.

Ancient people weren't idiots

Extremely lacking in complex accumulated knowledge, but not idiots

>>1613017
With the technology you have back then.

>>1613025
It wasn't just a pile of rocks faggot

>>1613044
this

>>1613017
Materials, accumulated knowledge of what you have, sweat and determination.

Ropes, hammers, logs/wheels, wedges, pick axes, rocks, shovels possibly.

>>1613017

Pretty easily actually. Just raw muscle and sweat.

>>1613455
>Pretty easily actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K7q20VzwVs

This guy does it quite easily.

>>1613017
The exquisite stonework and architecture clearly shows this could only have been the work of ayyliens or possibly gods.

>>1613472
Not only that, but one of the rocks points directly at a star. What are the odds of that?

>>1613471
Jesus fuck.

What's really crazy is, if it's that easy, why aren't there more "Stonehenges" around? Is it possible that this was primitive but very specialized knowledge that most tribes of people never discovered?

>>1613989
There aren't more because there were less than 10 Million people in all of Europe at the time.

>>1613017
Who says they had no technology?

>>1613041
>Extremely lacking in complex accumulated knowledge
prove it.

>>1613989
There are other henges around. No others are quite as big. Other henges had their stones destroyed/recycled over time.

Another thing you may want to ponder is Doggerland. When sea levels were much lower, you could walk from France to Ireland, as much of what's under the North Sea, English Channel and Irish Sea was a low-lying flatland of marshes, shrubby forest and lagoons. The Stonehenge area at the time was also a lot more swampy with water channels and such too. Early humans most definitely hunted and lived in Doggerland, and probably in greater numbers than in inland since access to fish and birds and deer would have been fairly abundant year round. There is some underwater archeology going on to find traces, but basically thousands of years underwater and many earthquakes, landslides, etc. will have washed most of it away.

>>1614045
>>1614045
Doggerland is Atlantis. The ancient greeks (who were a norse people too unlike modern mongrel """greeks""") knew about it too which is why their historians wrote about it

>>1613017
Push them onto some logs, roll it forward, add the last log to the front, push again. Repeat until it's where you want it.

>>1614563
Wut.

>>1614045
It really isn't all that much time, certainly not for earthquakes to have a significant effect, I imagine the inundation would have happened gradually too. However a shallow sea floor will have a lot of sediment transportation.

>>1613989
There are plenty of henges. You can find them throughout Britain, as well as in Northern/Western France. You also have to think outside of the relevance of the use of stone itself (though the dolerite of Stonehenge does resemble a starry night-sky) and remember that circular mounds, wooden henges, etc had existed in Europe for thousands of years.

>>1614045
Doggerland was mostly submerged millennia before building commenced on Stonehenge. I think people just forget that Copper and Bronze Age people were not Neanderthals sitting around in caves. They were metal-working, seafaring farmers with knowledge of astronomy and extensive trading networks spanning Europe. It should also be remembered that, on a sunny enough day, you can see France quite clearly from atop the cliffs at Dover (and vice-versa)

>>1614563
>Implying the Atlantis story wasn't just a confused retelling of the fate of the Minoans

>>1613471
That's really fascinating. Not sure how well the stone pivot would work vs. log rollers on marshy ground, but the shoring box jack seemed sound.

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You fools

>>1613017
YOU can't, but alien blacks can.

I think we have a tendence to underrate the technology of any past age.

>>1614825
Hell, just look at the ingenuity of the third-world.

>>1614563
>who were a norse people
Name one Norse philosopher.
They were Germanic, but we do not know what specific subgroup of Germanics.
The Ancient Germans were nothing like modern Germans or modern Nordics, ancient Germans were akin to lions among men.

>>1614825
We really do. Stonehenge period Britain was highly developed and connected for the level of technology they had. That is our problem, we associate level of technology with level of society, when in reality there isn't always a correlation, you can be stone age and have cities, law, militaries, etc, like South America.

Stonehenge is one of the ancient structures that contradicts Christian lies. Christians have tried to demonize northern European heritage by implying that Northern Europeans were primitives and savages.

>>1617480
Those Neolithic people weren't similar to Bronze age Northen Europeans.

Do you think our ancestors were stupid... they had the same brain power, they figured out "Round things can make pushing heavy things easier" and "Sharp strong things can cut rock". If we can figure out an iPhone and an ICBM they can figure out how to make a sacred burial place. They didn't have anything better to do, hunter-gatherers didn't work more than 3 hours a day at most.

>>1617930
Those weren't hunter gatherers, they were farmers.

>>1617930
Human intellectual potential has been the same for what, 20 000 years?

>>1618364
150,000

>>1618370
Well anyways that's my point. If we're smart enough to build shit now we sure as hell already were back when Stonehenge was put up.