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  tmsf1 year, 7 months ago

  Good Story.

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  nativestorm1 year, 7 months ago

  I bet someone followed Jehovah's Witnesses to them and found em LOL j/k

  great submit

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  VulgarCelebrity71 year, 7 months ago

  Too COOL.

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  devilette1 year, 7 months ago

  I bet they are ancestors of my landlord.

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  IAmMine1 year, 7 months ago

  I think I have some type of disorder, this stuff always makes me giddy...

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  BrianJJohnson1 year, 7 months ago

  man that's awesome. now only to digup the space ship!

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  PoohandPIglet1 year, 7 months ago

  Interesting if only we could learn more...

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  getreal11 year, 7 months ago

  Stonehenge has always been more than meets the eye.

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  endofdays1 year, 7 months ago

  From the story: "This is where they went to party - you could say it was the first free festival."

  The most important things transend the depths of time.

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  JoshGS1 year, 7 months ago

  Is there anyone else that thinks this is BS. I mean how would they lift those huge bolders and get them to stand up like that. Why would they build it. Just because they found some village does not indicate anything if you ask me. I think all who read this needs to really think about if human beings back then could really build something like this, or is there a higher power that left this here on Earth.

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  mabombardier1 year, 7 months ago

  Great story!

  Josh why is it so hard to believe in what our ancestors accomplished? Just because they came before hydrolics, electricity, and McDonalds, doesn't mean they didn't dream and believe in something. Those people were just as creative as we are, and probably smarter. Just because we can't figure out how they did it, doesn't mean that there was a space ship helping them.

  I for one am exstatic to know that my extended grandparents had this kind of imagination, drive, and work ethic, to leave us something to wonder about.

  Hmmmm what have we left for the future to ponder about? Plastic?

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  JoshGS1 year, 7 months ago

  I believe that our ancenstors accomplished a lot, but as well as looking at dreams and what could have been, I look at the reality of things. I would want to have some kind of proof that humans could lift huge bolders and stack them so they stay put like that. Just because they found this by there means absoultely nothing, it's nothing more than a guess that those remains they found were from the people that built stonehenge. No one really knows for sure but God.

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  PucciPat1 year, 7 months ago

  stonehenge is awesome. truly an amazing site to see in person.

  also makes you wonder about easter island, pyramids, the bermuda triangle, etc...

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  canttouchtiger1 year, 7 months ago

  Personally this stuff amazes me. I think that I would need proof that our ancestors DID NOT do this. It is so much more logical to believe that they did it than believing that a "higher power" did something so awesome. No offense to anyone.

  Great story!!

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    JoshGS1 year, 7 months ago

    There is no proof that it was done by a higher power, but there's also no actual proof that it was done by humans, so it will just remain a mystery. I'd love for you to find me some actual proof.

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      mabombardier1 year, 7 months ago

      Its sad to have such little faith, not in a higher power (that doesn't need to be discussed here), but in humanity as a whole. Amazing things can be accomplished when we work together. Apparently a lesson forgotten through the ages.

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  gladhap1 year, 7 months ago

  I found this to be a very interesting article.

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  EDWARDIII1 year, 7 months ago

  I'm curious about the labor source. In all monument-building cultures I know of there were huge populations of slaves. Did pre-Roman Britain traffic in slaves the way the Greeks, for example, did?

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  Webreader1 year, 7 months ago

  All of you interested in "how they did it:" You might want to read "Aku Aku", the book by Thor Heyerdahl. He visited Easter Island about 50 years ago and learned from native old-timers how the famous statues were made, moved and up righted. He found and photographed evidence which showed the quarries and bore out what he was told there. He also found some locals who helped him move and lift upright a statue, the way he was told the original builders did it. Nothing was used except what was available to the original builders. The quarry had a statue which was partially finished, which the people had chiseled with stone hand "axes." cont.

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  Webreader1 year, 7 months ago

  cont. One thing that humans had long ago which seems to be in short supply these days was time and patience. These seemingly insurmountable tasks such as building pyramids, statues, cathedrals, giant artworks did take a long time, but little by little they were completed, with amazing ingenuity, by human mind and body power. They didn't worry that the jobs took sometimes many generations, but the skills were passed down. In Europe today, there are cathedrals still being built and maintained by workers whose ancestors started the projects. Washington DC's National Cathedral took more than two generations to complete, though it has been used before it was "finished."

  Aku Aku means, to the Easter islanders, "a spiritual guide."

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  capn_caveman1 year, 7 months ago

  National Geographic just released a video on this subject:

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/07

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  Webreader1 year, 7 months ago

  I found this reference:

  aku-aku: v.. To move a tall, flat bottomed object (such as a bookshelf) by swiveling it alternatively on its corners in a "walking" fashion. [After the book by Thor Heyerdahl* theorising the statues of Easter Island were moved in this fashion.] source: LangMaker.com.

  The book actually does not mention this "walking" method, which anyone who has moved furniture has probably used. The Easter Island statues weighed many tons, and obviously humans would have a tough time moving them this way. "Aku

  Aku" says they used wooden rollers and blocks to slowly slide the statues along the ground by many people pulling cooperatively, and when the destination was reached, they levered them up bit-by-bit and piled stones underneath for support, until the statue was nearly upright, then used ropes for final vertical position. cont.

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  Webreader1 year, 7 months ago

  cont. It took a long time, but kept the folks busy. Heyerdahl and his native new friends on Easter Island actually did this, and photos which show them doing it are in the book. The picture of the nearly completed task shows a nearly upright original statue resting on a large pile of rocks. Thank you cap'n, and for the reference.

  ---I just told someone: "Aku! Aku!" and they said back to me: "Bless you!"

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