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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE
stones of an equivalent size by lashing three rafts together, moved
the raft upriver using wooden poles, and then finally tried to move
the stones uphill using crudely manufactured wheels. But their ef-
forts were in vain. This was just one of the experiments carried out in
order to establish how the bluestones might have been transported
as far as where Stonehenge lies now. Many others have been per-
formed, and investigators have attempted to understand what
method of transportation the people of the time might have used. Yet
none of these attempts came anywhere near achieving success, be-
cause they were all carried out under the misapprehension that the
people who built Stonehenge had a backward culture and used only
crude implements made of stone and wood.
Another point that needs emphasis is that the experiments in
question benefited from present-day technology. They used various
models produced in naval shipyards, employed ropes produced in
high-tech factories, and made detailed plans and calculations. Yet
even so, they obtained no positive results. However, people living
some 5,000 years ago transported these stones, weighing many tons
each, and arranged them in a circle by calculating their exact geo-
graphical positions. Clearly, they did not accomplish all this with
stone tools, rafts made of logs and cranks made of timber.
Stonehenge and the many other megaliths were built using some
technology we are unable even to guess at today.
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