how the Stonehenge was able to be built and how did they move rocks?

Answer 1

The people of that time were more ingenious than they usually get credit for. Whether it's Stonehenge, the Egyptian Pyramids, giant stone balls in Central American jungles, or anything else mysterious and challenging, there's a way of doing it if you have enough people who think it's important enough.

Lots of twentieth-century authors who looked at these achievements just thought of ridiculously inefficient ways of building them, then assumed that there could have been no other way to do it. Nobody today really knows what lengths of undiscovered ingenuity these builders could actually have been pushed to by their own mysterious motives.

Answer 2

I'm a Yank living a few miles from Mt. Rushmore but I've been to Stonehenge six or seven times. The exact number had to do with the six or seven pubs I didn't pass to get there. Just goes to show, anybody can do it with the right tools and anybody can get there with pub directions. What I'll never forget is how very large and heavy they are at a time before wheels, beasts of burden and a workforce of less than 1500 men of said Penfold clan. Not even any trees to make rollers with. Lots of differing opinions as to how they got them there from the quarries and they probably used several considering the long time line. If I was to do it, I would build rafts and float them as close as possible and use the raft material for rollers. RScott

Answer 3

I saw an investigative TV documentary that said the rocks were brought by sea from South Wales up the coast and then by rolling on logs and pulling by ox and floating along more rivers to where they now are. The Stonehenge website says the same thing: http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/history.htm

The rocks were glacial stones left after the withdrawal of ice after an ice age years before. They just needed moving.

Answer 4

well, if anyone knew it would make front pages! no-one knows how stonehenge was built. all we do know is when it was built (about 4000 and so years ago - which means it wasn't built by the celts because they came later so - contrary to common belief it has nothing to do with druids) and that the stones that it was made of came from wales - which is weird because simmilar stones can be found in the area so it makes you wonder why they had to go all the way to wales to get stones...

but how it was built and why and exactly by whom - we don't know.

Answer 5

They moved the giant stones using trees as rollers placed underneath the stones, then ropes around the stone for grip, then brute force in numbers to drag it, when building, they used similar method to eyptians building the pyramids, they surround the structure with soil and worked upward..eventually removing all dirt to reveal a fully completed structure

Answer 6

See, a really long time ago there were these really big people who had really big children. Stone Henge, and Easter Island are both examples of kids never putting their toys away.

Some things change, others stay the same.

Answer 7

With lots of men and some trees to roll the stones around on, and for levers to stand them up

Answer 8

They're still trying to figure that out. Same with the Easter Island statues, the pyramids and what Billy-Joe threw off the Talahatchee Bridge.

Answer 9

Most likely construction method was levers and earth-mounding, transport was by sledge or roller.

Answer 10

They used brontosaurs.