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Originally posted by Char-Lee
reply to post by nighthawk1954
They look like Giants built houses for their little human pets.
Love these things! Wonderful!
Originally posted by SixX18
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
They are great-remind me of hobbit houses.
Maybe the idea of the tiny circular door was to keep the cold out-or maybe to keep out large predatory beasts who were around at the time.
Good thought, but how would a Hobbit build a structure with those massive stones? They couldn't reach that high, or lift that heavy.
In spite of the variety of Caucasian monuments, they show strong similarities with megaliths from different parts of Europe and Asia, like the Iberian Peninsula, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Israel and India
sorry to break it to some people here, but these monuments were beaten out out of the earth using hammer stones and further beaten and ground to shape. rollers and ropes would have been used to manouver them, along with good old fashioned muscles.. earthen ramps were most likely used to help raise them and the earth dug away later. it's quite simple really and very do-able.
Originally posted by Ittabena
reply to post by skalla
sorry to break it to some people here, but these monuments were beaten out out of the earth using hammer stones and further beaten and ground to shape. rollers and ropes would have been used to manouver them, along with good old fashioned muscles.. earthen ramps were most likely used to help raise them and the earth dug away later. it's quite simple really and very do-able.
Any attempts to prove the do-ability of any of these methods have been done only on a greatly reduced scale - in terms of size of block - and each has failed, miserably. Sorry, something I keep my eye on.
Originally posted by intrptr
Meat lockers. Bear and wolf proof.
Even if they could remove the stone blocking the entrance the hole is man sized, not bear.
Very important to secure enough food for the winter and keep it safe from predators.