How did the stones at Stonehenge end up on top?

Akin to my thought. Cantilevers, pullies (which are amazing at lifting heavy stuff without much human effort) and logs (as if wheels, like I seem to recall used up to recently by loggers in Canada). (loggers, not bloggers lol).
And lots of manpower. x100s compared with today.

 

LOL. The Irish are far from stupid. It's merely a (social) disarming strategy they deploy.
Were they really giants such that they would keep their head above water -the Irish Sea? So giant that the currents wouldn't wipe them out? Given recent history (60s 70s 80s) it's more likely they acquired them in (current) GB or someone else did, and then they moved them into position.

Of course, I don't recall which came first - those who created Stonehenge or the earthquake/volcano, which resulted in the sea between Ireland and GB.

 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2HME_EIEAApelx?format=jpg&name=small

 

By magic!

 

I agree with you entirely

 

"Yeah... We always made Bob do the weird stuff."

J.R. "Bob" Dobbs or Bob Loblaw?

 

And the sheep still believe that we are the only form intelligence in the universe.
If we set off for a look around so fast that we passed the moon after 4 minutes and the sun in18, we would arrive at the most recently discovered galaxy in just 10,000 years. Just in time for a cup of tea.

If we extended that famous galaxy model made of marbles and golf balls at the London royal institution to cower the known universe today, the model would extend from London to Australia.
Statistically, the likelihood of us being the only form of intelligence, is about the same a person winning the lottery jackpot 10 weeks running.

Meanwhile, us super intelligent humans now have a battery powered car that can run for a whole 300 miles.

 

They will soon go 800 miles. Do they require AA or AAA batteries?
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They hired my construction company.

 

Is the 'Thrash' construction company the one based on Mars, with the heavy equipment stored on the moon and the entire labour force little green women.
I think they were the main contractors on the Shard in London.

 

Definitely AAA....... 70,000 AA batteries would shred the tyres and wreck the suspension.

I bet you would love to be a fly on the wall, when I am in the showrooms looking at EVs.

 

We are on Moonbase Alpha. We also built Chernobyl.

 

They were belched out of a now extinct volcano and the surrounding terrain was gradually washed away by torrential rain.

 

They got Finn McCool to put them up there.

 

I heard from an art history professor that the upright stones were dropped into the ground from above somehow. Never elaborated and I have no idea how true it is. Either way, all of the stone circles, dolmens, megaliths, etc of Europe are fascinating and have some pretty mysterious stuff tied to them. I like to think that they figured this stuff out by simply paying close attention to nature.

 

It was not magic or vodoo. Simply the path of least resistance. As already mentioned above: bury the posts in dirt and then it is a no-brainer to pull the tops on the posts. Removing the dirt is easy. Don’t forget that in those days there was plenty of free labour and they had a lot of time on their hands.

 

Close to correct except by burying the vertical stones in holes equal to their height the removal of billions of cubic meters of dirt for miles in each direction would too large an undertaking. The stones are set on a rise in terrain but the area is relatively flat in comparison to areas surrounding it. Digging the stones into the ground with dirt removal would be a massive project so large alternative methods would be used in the construction. Alternatively the stones were placed in location and dirt was used to erect them. Removal from under the base area of just a few cubic meters and the stones tipped into the base using dirt fill on one side, excavation on the other. As each stone slid into its shallow hole it sat up in perfect form. Believe it or not the weight of each stone, at 30ish tonnes each, isn't all that great a hinderance in movement of the object. Once set the dirt was then built up around each vertical stone creating a ramp of dirt in which the horizontal stones were moved across and put into place. Once the horizontal stones were placed the dirt was removed and put back into the area it came from (refilled the holes) exposing Stonehenge as a time piece used to determine solar movement in coordination with planting and harvest seasons.