Longstanding theory suggests slaves built the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids using some sort of pulley system. We have no evidence of this in society at that time. "We don't find any detectable evidence at all for the local British western hunter-gatherer ancestry in the Neolithic farmers after they arrive," said co-author Dr Tom Booth, a specialist in ancient DNA from the Natural History Museum in London.Co-author Professor Mark Thomas, from UCL, said he also favoured "a numbers game explanation".When the researchers analysed the DNA of early British farmers, they found they most closely resembled Neolithic people from Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal). For centuries Stonehenge has been surrounded by pasture and now arable land.There are no marks on the monoliths that provide evidence of how they were moved.Both of these elements of the mortice and tenon joint could only have been made by pounding away the surface of the stone. It is therefore unlikely that any of cylindrical form would be found which could be rolled as you suggest. After this various ice ages meant that there were no people around for long periods. Various people have attributed the building of this great megalith to the Danes, Romans, Saxons, Greeks, Atlanteans, Egyptians, Phoenicians Celts, King Aurelius Ambrosious, Merlin, and even Aliens.One of the most popular beliefs was that Stonehenge was built by the Druids. We have no evidence for block and tackle (the wheel was not used until much later). I'm not sure about your ideas concerning quarantine. If it makes the task easier then it would be well worth it (there are earlier sophisticated and well constructed Neolithic wooden trackways in peat bogs in nearby Somerset). Just beyond this prehistoric life carried on just the same as everywhere else. Why do the tracks seem too much capital and labour investment for the task? But new evidence suggests the capital has a more chilling history, built as a military base by slaves who were then slaughtered. They were one of the first semi-nomadic hunting and gathering groups with an agricultural economy and contained a strong reverence for circles and symmetry. You can't use bronze tools to cut rock, except very soft ones like chalk. Modern Druids, formally named the Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids, still congregate at Stonehenge on the midsummer solstice, clad in white robes and hoods.
The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west … You certainly couldn't move the big stones in this way.I don't think we can be certain that most religious practices at this time involved sacrifice and there is no direct evidence of this from Stonehenge.We purchased the ropes that we used. It is assumed by archaeologists that the Beaker People were more warlike in nature than most tribes of their time because they buried their dead with more weapons, such as daggers and battle axes. Archaeologists named them the Windmill Hill people after one of their earthworks on Windmill Hill, which is near Stonehenge. The Windmill Hill peoples built large circular furrows, or hill-top enclosures, dug around a mound and had collective burials in large stone-encased tombs. We felt that just using larger and larger numbers of people was not the answer, and that the builders of Stonehenge probably thought up a scheme which used less people in a safer and more controlled way.I'm afraid that I don't know whether Stonehenge would fit inside one of the Great Pyramids but if it would them I'm sure that it is co-incidence. It might seem simpler but the forces required to raise this would be huge. Instead of burring their dead in mass graves, they showed more reverence for death by placing them in small round graves marked by mounds called tumuli. You seem to have overlooked the fact that Mark Whitby, who played a central role in the experiment that was part of the NOVA program, is a "real" engineer. I am sorry that you have such a low opinion of archaeologists; maybe we don't have the accumulated skills of an ancient engineer (even one of the least intelligent ones) but we do have a genuine love of the past and a healthy respect for its inhabitants.Theoretically possible, but unlikely.
You would need a whole series of programmes to look at aspects like the geometry, astronomy etc. Research shows that the site has continuously evolved over a period of about 10,000 years. These Iberian farmers were descended from people who had journeyed across the Mediterranean.Have you been getting these songs wrong? Today, for fear of its desecration, Stonehenge is usually shut off to public access on midsummer's eve.Most scientists agree on the modern theory that three tribes built Stonehenge at three separate times.