who built Stonehenge?

Question

there was a fantastic theory ...the very huge humanoids have built them million years ago. I perhaps may be wrong

Answer 1

It wasn't the Druids. It was there about 1,000 years before the Druids. They just used it.

No one really knows who built stone henge.

Answer 2

Theories about who built Stonehenge have included the Druids, Greeks, Phoenicians, and Atlanteans. Speculation on the reason it was built range from human sacrifice to astronomy.

Investigations over the last 100 years have revealed that Stonehenge was built in several stages from 2800 - 1800 BC. It seems to have been designed to allow for observation of astronomical phenomena - summer and winter solstices, eclipses, and more.

I don't think anyone knows for sure who built it so your theory about the humanoids is just as valid as the rest!

Answer 3

Stonehenge Settlement Found: Builders' Homes, "Cult Houses"
James Owen in London
for National Geographic News
January 30, 2007

A major prehistoric village has been unearthed near Stonehenge in southern England.

The settlement likely housed the builders of the famous monument, archaeologists say, and was an important ceremonial site in its own right, hosting great "feasts and parties" (see a photo gallery of the Stonehenge village).

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Excavations also offer new evidence that a timber circle and a vast earthwork where the village once stood were linked to Stonehenge—via road, river, and ritual. Together, the sites were part of a much larger religious complex, the archaeologists suggest.

(See also: "Stonehenge Didn't Stand Alone, Excavations Show" [January 12, 2007].)

"Stonehenge isn't a monument in isolation. It is actually one of a pair—one in stone, one in timber [animated map showing the sites]," said Mike Parker Pearson, leader of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, a joint initiative run by six English universities and partially funded by the National Geographic Society. (National Geographic News is part of the National Geographic Society.)

The Late Stone Age village—the largest ever found in Britain—was excavated in September 2006 at Durrington Walls, the world's largest known "henge," a type of circular earthwork. A giant timber circle (photo) once stood at Durrington, which is 1.75 miles (2.8 kilometers) from the celebrated circle of standing stones on Salisbury Plain.

At Durrington the archaeologists discovered foundations of houses dating back to 4,600 years ago (photo)—around the time construction began on Stonehenge.

Excavations revealed the remains of eight wooden buildings. Surveys of the landscape have identified up to 30 more dwellings, Parker Pearson said.

"We could have many hundreds of houses here," he added.

The initial stone circle at Stonehenge—the so-called sarsen stones—has been radiocarbon-dated to between 2600 and 2500 B.C.

The dates for the village are "exactly the same time, in radiocarbon terms, as for the building of the sarsens," Parker Pearson said.

Six of the houses so far unearthed measured about 250 square feet (23 square meters) each and had wooden walls and clay floors. Fireplaces and furniture—such as cupboards and beds—could be discerned from their outlines in the earth, Parker Pearson said.

Answer 4

I do not think I have ever come across such a load of old drivel in my life, both the original question and the lame answers "No One Knows" TWADDLE
It was built by the British tribes indigenous to the Wessex area between 2200 B.C. and 1200 B.C.

Answer 5

Stonehenge was built by druids thousands of years ago, it was a place where they would go to worship their gods and perform rituals and sacrifices.

Answer 6

Sir Egbert McAlpine, it wass Milennum dom fore 21st sentury BC or 10th Century sinse ice age. It was never finished proper as onli mane rofe was put on and rest not bovered wit.

Answer 7

The druids used it, but who originally built it is unknown. So I guess it's legends to figure out who really built it!

Answer 8

Giants from the early days of earth

Answer 9

Some ancient contractor who believed Mini Malls would be a success. Maybe it was for a short time back then.

Answer 10

No one really knows, been there once when i was 2 but can't remember. Kewl insight of western Nebraska's Carhenge.