Hi,
Just saw a PBS documentary of students from Exeter moving
weights at Stonehenge to test radical theory - Experts hit on the new idea
after examining mysterious stone balls found near Stonehenge-like monuments in
Aberdeenshire, Scotland About the size of a cricket ball, they are precisely
fashioned to be within a millimetre of the same size. This suggests they were
meant to be used together in some way rather than individually. There were two
types of balls found where one was almost a perfect sphere which they
concentrated on in this theory and the second type appeared similar but with
about a dozen large bumps spaced evenly over the surface which they ignored
totally.
In the video they made a pair of lumber tracks with a cut out hollow so the
balls could roll and placed the balls evenly with a platform then laid across
the balls and their test weights stacked on the platform. They were able to
move about 4 ton with just a handful of students but the soft wood was being
crushed by the stones and had to be reinforced with harder wood.
My question is regarding the "other " stones mentioned but then
ignored in the video - I find it hard to believe the similar scale was just a
coincidence and I would like to know if Neolithic man could have used animal
fat and these "other" balls to create a hip like joint or multiple hip like
joints with a "nest" of these "other" balls imbedded into logs or otherwise
contained such that the smooth balls would seat partially into the nest and be
able to spin on the animal fat caught between the bottom half of the smooth
ball and the round bumps of the "other" type balls in which the smooth ball is
seated - like a hip joint but with fewer points of contact.
Fran
