The Strange Mystery of Stonehenge

So who actually built Stonehenge? What happened and why?
Many explanations have been proposed as the origin of Stonehenge, including lost technologies, aliens and even magic. Turns out, we actually know a lot more than we think about this mystical site, thanks to science! Join Hank Green for another fun episode of SciShow where we'll break down the truth about Stonehenge!
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[@unicornswag888]

*_I built it._*

[@NJ-wb1cz]

You're a wizard, Harry!

[@josef5341]

All hail muscle hank, thd strongest hank that ever was!

[@coffee115]

Makes sense to me.

[@rcfp2006]

Where you been man? Haven't seen you for a while.

[@Wxwy]

Of course you did.

[@ido2267]

I still remember the old "MAD" magazine who was dedicated to history. In the part about stonehenge they said "5000 years ago the people of England built stonehenge to confuse the hell out of future archaeologists

[@AramatiPaz]

Sounds plausible.

[@irondome69luvxxx]

great! so lets build flying pyramid just to confuse future generations lol

[@paulcargill9957]

J8y. J k M

[@samuela-aegisdottir]

I have a friend who studied archeology and she told me that archeologists want to be burried with various strange objects to confuse future archeologists. Like "Why was she burried with a plastic bag? The bag probably had a religious meaning for the people of her culture."

[@legitbeans9078]

Sounds like something the English would do

[@johnclement189]

Primitive humans : wooh, this is a really tiring project. I hope future generations will remember us by this. Modern humans : *Aliens* Modern humans : wooh, this a really tiring skyscrapers we built. I hope future generations see this a peak of human evolution. Advance humans : *Aliens*

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[@ChrisRitty]

what the hell is this guy podemos saying

[@danielrhymes4593]

This reminds me of the Easter Island story - that the islanders told people the statues 'walked' to their destination, which was written off, but later they realised it only took about a dozen people with ropes to rock the statues back and forth and literally walk them at a pretty impressive pace. We constantly underestimate human strength and ingenuity.

[@fkrkf]

Well brown people ingenuity and strength

[@dplj4428]

Rocking is key. It uses the weight of the stone to advantage.

[@joanchaffinbawcom5722]

Thank you for mentioning that ancient humans were every bit as smart as we are, and used the tools available in their own time to accomplish things. There can be such a technology bias in our perception of history and different cultures.

[@feralbluee]

absolutely right!! :) 🪡🧵 🌽 🏈 🏹 🛹 🎺 🚙 🚂 🛫 🛶 🕌 📡 🔧 🔪 🗝️ 📎 🔓 🀄️ abc ♾️ 🕝 🇺🇳🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🇯🇵🇵🇰🇵🇳🇷🇪🇬🇧🇺🇾. . .

[@mikemondano3624]

The ancients were smarter than we are by orders of magnitude. Modern people can;t even understand things they actually invented, like words, active learning, physical exertion, and common decency. People had families by 14 or so and that was before human brains shrunk so much.

[@tobyihli9470]

Oh my God, you’re accusing someone of bullying ancient people. You somehow felt the need to defend them. Crack is wack! Put the pipe down, will ya?

[@Jacob-jg6cd]

The pioneers used to ride those rocks for miles.

[@jimmy13morrison]

Talking about sponge bob right?

[@apple-cv2xj]

@@jimmy13morrison NO, this is PATRICK!

[@anthonyfuentes4471]

🥳

[@ycp4425]

The Krusty krab pizza, is the pizza for you and me

[@FizzySugarStar]

It's not just a boulder! Sniff It's a rock! A Rooo ha ha ha oooock it's a big beautiful Oh a rock!

[@te0nani]

We NEED a episode about Muscle Hank. There are so many unanswered questions. Who is he? Where did he come from? Why is he so tough? AND DOES HE EVEN LIFT?

[@object-official]

where did he come from, where did he go?

[@ZickAzmi]

"Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that...and then we can party!'"

[@markrieke8753]

They got all the alcohol they could drink to pull them🤣

[@farenorenda]

"never underestimate the power of a good ramp and pulley system."

[@jakobraahauge7299]

Merlin was a wizard and science can't prove that he didn't live bacj then and built all of it by himself! Or just time travelled! 🧙‍♂️

[@verdanteridium]

Words to live by

[@pixelmace1423]

Yeah it takes a *really* good one to pull me from my bed

[@zora5678]

Can someone show a ramp and pulley lifting giant 20+ ton rocks?

[@bearschmidt3180]

With a big enough fulcrum , you can move the earth !

[@XmarkedSpot]

Make an episode on Göbekli Tepe, the world's oldest (10.000 BCE!) known megalithic structure, it's breathtaking!

[@XmarkedSpot]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

[@NJ-wb1cz]

It has umlauts in its name and it doesn't have a good PR behind it so it doesn't count.

[@nmtlnm]

Butt Why?? What is PR?

[@dunn0r]

@@nmtlnm PR = Public Relations (Department)

[@soogymoogi]

Gobekli Tepe is a billion times more interesting than stonehenge imo, but I also get why it's not as well known. There's so many unanswered questions about it, regardless, not just "how much did ancient civilizations know about simple mechanics" Thinking Sideways podcast did a great episode on this. Plenty of other historical science unsolved mysteries on there too.

[@skylaroconnor2903]

Please don't ever change your theme song, I love it so much, it's iconic!!!

[@Beryllahawk]

An interesting note - I read a book in which someone was investigating the notion that Stonehenge may have had a counterpart, during the time when it was "in use" as it were...Woodhenge. They've found a site somewhat near to Stonehenge, with almost the same layout, but with evidence that wooden structures were set up there, not stone ones. The researchers thought maybe that Stonehenge was for the dead, but Woodhenge was for the living; and that maybe people traveled from far away to these two henges as a yearly event - perhaps as a kind of tribal reunion? It seems that the wooden henge might have seen use for ceremonies and rites - maybe marriages, or inter-clan negotiations, the kind of thing that ends feuds and seals alliances. Or, maybe it was more like the ancient Norse "Althing" - a large meeting of chieftains where laws could be debated and various legal disputes settled. This was all quite a while ago, but I was fascinated by the idea. After all, the Egyptians and other ancient cultures certainly had various yearly events, both religious and not; it makes sense that wandering tribes might also need to meet at some regular point in time, to keep touch, or to trade, or to make marriage matches between clans. www.amazon.com/Stonehenge-Understanding-Mysteries-Greatest-Monument/dp/1615191933 That's the book; this link shows the reprint from 2014, but I read it in the first printing. :)

[@dr.badguyreviews6785]

"So... what's this project about Dave?" "Oh it's hilarious. Im gonna confuse a bunch of people 5000 years from now." "Seems a little unneccessary." "Oh no, you kidding fam. This is gonna get so many videos on KZbin." "What's KZbin?" - A totally accurate conversation circa 3000 BCE

[@mihirghosh6224]

OMG nice one there

[@Rattus-Norvegicus]

Hey, would you like to go in with me on my next project Dickhenge?

[@ADEehrh]

I think I remember them talking about that back then.

[@krashd]

*5000 BCE

[@keshavgupta6984]

@@krashd 3000...actually bcoz we r in 2000AD

[@Dunkle0steus]

150 burials over the course of centuries is not that many, especially if some of these people lived far away, or were even cremated far away. I wonder if it's possible that stonehenge was a burial site specifically for people of a high class? Like chieftains or a priest caste. In that case, it might have been considered improper to have your remains buried at a less "holy" site, so if you were the high priest in Devon, you'd ask your disciples to take your remains to stonehenge upon your death. A lot of later kings have their remains in Westminster, so it's not like there isn't a precedent for rich and high-status people wanting their remains kept somewhere important.

[@davidcadman4468]

That is what is surmised by the archeologists. It was a place of ceremony, a calendar, of healing, and burial of significant people. The burial Cairns / Mounds around the henge are also of significant people. As if to be close was enough to partake of the magic. The commoner would have ended up in the fields or streams, near where they lived. Perhaps buried by family, more often not. One other note: It is improper to try to decipher Stonehenge without referencing the earth works that connect it to the river, and to Woodhenge near by. www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/woodhenge/ They were a part of the whole ceremonial landscape. To decipher one, you need the other. The henges, the pathways, the mounds, and the river. We can't expect to understand the whole by just isolating one. This is something that is going to be an ongoing engagement for centuries more as we come to grips with understanding who we are and those that came before us. I second the request that the Turkish Temple of Göbekli Tepe be examined as part of a wider ranging examination of World Wide Henges.

[@beth8775]

I was thinking this all through the video.

[@SpydersByte]

I thought the same thing, when he said it was used as a burial site for a "long time" I thought... 150 people? Really? I bet 150 slaves died moving the first stone alone!

[@dodokodokodok1118]

It's all are just theories by some people with no evidence. It's a fake ancient monument

[@W0lfbaneShikaisc00l]

@@dodokodokodok1118 If it's a fake ancient monument: then what of the dead in the pits? Are they just fake skeletons too? Maybe they're props for fake skeletons for Music videos? And maybe the pig bones are like fake armor they used to have fake fights with?

[@Beakerzor]

what about brontosauruses? I remember seeing a human using one at a quarry site from my childhood TV shows

[@MartnCFdk]

Yes, Kent Hovind agrees

[@cipher5893]

The Jetsons isnt real smh

[@Hadrian1616]

Flintstones reference. I understood that.

[@AmberAmber]

@@Hadrian1616 AND @Beakerzor 🤣🤣🤣 ILY'all, Flintstones fans! ☆FYI - Did you know that Brontosaurus was changed to Apatosaurus? Blew my mind! (Bet it still makes a good car•tipping rack'o'ribs though!🦕🦕🍖🥩🍔). XO

[@kay1a_0606]

Louis The Jetsons took place in the future he was talking about The Flintstones

[@DesolatorMagic]

You forgot that Merlin can time travel lol.

[@syd6654]

DesolatorMagic it was Dave the Time Traveling Troll, as other people have said

[@codyofathens3397]

Exactly, Merlin can time travel. And Hank is gonna need Muscle Hank to protect him when Merlin sees this, and time travels to slap Hank for suggesting he isn't real.

[@hop-skip-ouch8798]

Don't forget his friendship with the Transformers and that time he was a hot woman in the Seven Deadly Sins

[@joseluisnietoenriquez6122]

We humans are always trying to explain everything with magic. It's like a way to avoid the hard work to get the real answer but feel like you already know the truth.

[@GSPV33]

If magic was real, it wouldn't be magic, anyway, it'd just be another science, with physical laws. Unless it didn't strictly depend on physical causal forces -- but then, quantum phenomena don't seem to have any 'reason' or 'cause' for collapsing preferentially one way or another, but we don't call those magic.

[@judbakilam]

@@GSPV33 Magick is the science of the metaphysical and how it affects our material realm and it is definitely real. Physical science originated from alchemy, sacred geometry, astrology and numerology. Check this article; www.academia.edu/15211045/_Astrology_Alchemy_and_Other_Occult_Sciences_ The third eye is a symbol for the knowledge of the unseen and unobservable and this knowledge is what is known as the gnostic mysteries. Unfortunately the Supreme Entity has reserved the unadulterated knowledge of the unseen to only those who He deems worthy eg prophets and men of great spiritual intellect who are also righteous, and the rest that is out there is the corrupt form of it which is a 99% lies and 1%truth. eg Thelema, Occult, Qabbalah, Babylonian magic etc.

[@aozorakei5288]

@@judbakilam what

[@judbakilam]

@@aozorakei5288 what what?

[@DeepValueOptions]

José Luis Nieto Enríquez they say that in the future technology will be so advanced that it will be indistinguishable to magic.. in the same way that if there are ancient civilizations in the universe they will be akin to god

[@crapstirrer]

Yes, wizards did build Stonehenge, and by wizards we mean engineers.

[@fanOmry]

Judging by Alita Battle Angel.. Depends on when you are..

[@circu111]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke

[@n1k32h]

“The earth is flat”. Flat Earthers.

[@TheNaturalnuke]

If you don’t understand it it’s magic. If you do understand it it’s science. If someone understands it and you don’t they are a wizard. If you understand something they don’t then YOU are the wizard.

[@32Rats]

Whats the difference?

[@syriuszb8611]

The biggest mystery of stonehenge is: why at some point people who took care of it, thought that it is a good idea to give tourists pickaxes so they could collect souvenirs...

[@fdah29]

"What's the purpose of Stonehenge? A giant granite birthday cake Or a prison far too easy to escape?" - Ylvis.

[@Horzuhammer]

No one knows who they were or what they were doing. But their legacy remains. Hewn into the living rock of Stonehenge.

[@LiLi-or2gm]

Stonehenge! Where a man's a man And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan!

[@Horzuhammer]

​@@LiLi-or2gm That's actually what I wrote first, but that passage seemed to fit the video like a glove.

[@oldman0995]

I actually listened to that song on my iPhone while I was there

[@WouldntULikeToKnow.]

What is this from?

[@JohnWStenger]

You should have typed it in doubly

[@johnathanarcher6999]

Stonehenge builders: K we need big rocks, go to Wales and get some. Workers: But there’s perfectly good rocks over th- Builders: NO!! Wales.

[@tinear4]

And in this way, the British Isles first introduced the world to pointy-haired middle managers.

[@markr8690]

Oh how this has changed

[@DoctorCymraeg]

Cymru 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@badcompany227]

29 years old. 23 of those I was misinformed about carbon dating, UNTIL NOW! I always scratched my head about it, like “what do you mean it is how we can tell when that rock was put there by it’s age?” That rock could have been made millions of years ago! THE TOOLS! Thanks SciShow!

[@jasonbattermann9982]

You guys should do a video about the inherent inaccuracy of radiocarbon dating.

[@annas3445]

Jason Climbermann THANK YOU

[@neoflare1815]

@@annas3445 hmmm ? Sources

[@neonsense_oc]

Thanks to Scishow for sponsoring this episode of Skillshare

[@Blubb5000]

Thanks for Skillshow for sponsoring this episode of Scishare.

[@IsaacBever]

Thanks to Scishow for sponsoring the episode of Skillshare

[@Blubb5000]

@@IsaacBever Thanks to Scishare for sponsoring the episode of Skillshow

[@Azkadaz]

Scishow to episode for Skillsharing this thanks

[@alextang1575]

Can you do a video on the “zombie deer disease” that’s been in the news recently? Like how do prions work and how dangerous the disease is?

[@TheInescapableFen]

If they don't, you should read The Other Brain. It will cover anything you could want to know and so much more.

[@pjbth]

Look up mad cow disease.

[@nittygritty7034]

@@TheInescapableFen is that a book or an article?

[@maxcovfefe]

I'm from the Midwest where we've seen this problem before. This year is the first time I ever heard it called a zombie disease. I always heard "chronic wasting disease." We aren't yet sure whether humans can contract the disease or not. Because of this uncertainty, it's best to have your venison tested before eating it.

[@robertjenkins6132]

I am scared of misfolded proteins.

[@donutchan8114]

Flashback to 3000 bce - "Hey John. Wanna stack a bunch of rocks into a circle?" "...We're gonna need a lot of people."

[@TheStarBlack]

Congratulations on your excellent pronunciation! I expected Salisbury and Monmouth to trip you up but you nailed it! Nice to see someone doing their research!

[@baranorak4080]

Short answer: No Long answer: Yesn't

[@jacobtucker8758]

Non't

[@slappy8941]

Whomstsoever'd'nt've said otherwise is thrice a fool.

[@Burn_Angel]

*Kurzgesagt intensifies*

[@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627]

@@Burn_Angel what

[@thevoicestoldmetoagain4627]

@@Burn_Angel it translates to "in a nutshell". "In a nutshell intensifies"? What are you talking about?

[@roy4173]

So we know for certain that fictional characters absolutely did not build Stonehenge. Since we're crossing out Merlin, we should also cross out the Easter bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Paul Bunyan.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

Did you kill him?

[@chipkosboth3233]

The HELL YOU SAY! NO! Paul Bunyan is real. How else do we get funyons?

[@ChrisD4335]

Whos to say a powerful wizard was not 1000s of years old before he is mentioned in different a story. Don't cross ma boy Mer off so easy.

[@LetsPlayCrazy]

You have just used the association fallacy! Just because both Merlin and those named are fictional and you can cross off one of those, does not mean that other fictional characters are automatically also excluded!

[@roy4173]

@@LetsPlayCrazy I am absolutely looking forward to finding out it was Paul Bunyan all along lol.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

Ancient peoples, whether they knew what they were at the time or not, have always had at least 3 of the six simple machines: the lever, pulley, and inclined plane. The other three are forms of the first 3. The wedge is a form of inclined plane. The wheel and axel is part pulley, part lever. And the screw is part inclined plane, being an inclined plane in a circle. I once saw a demonstration of balancing a heavy rock onto a crosswise beam, placing another beam into the shed (triangular space) created by the leaning rock and lifting that up, and placing more and more beams to get the rock on top. By using beams built up to balance the rock, it was like seesawing the rock up the height it needed to go. Kind of like a giant game of Jenga. Levers all the way up! Another television show I saw a long time ago showed a group of people who used an obelisk such as the Ancient Egyptians created who set up the heavy obelisk by creating a hole for the obelisk to be placed in, and one side was graded at a diagonal so it could be dragged down by rope tackle to the placement point. Then the group used the tackle to set the stone upright into its resting hole. I'm not sure, but it might have been that upright wedges were used to keep the obelisk in place while the incline was filled up. Indeed! The pyramids at Giza were shown to have waterways that Ancient Egyptians had nearby to move the stones to create the pyramids. I can imagine points where groups would have been set up to take the stones from the waterways to stage for stone carvers to create blocks to make the pyramids.

[@icarusbinns3156]

NOVA had an episode on the Easter Island heads, and a student group got a full-body statue carved, but not finished. Figured out where to get it, how far they wanted to go, which hill to go over. And with three teams - one on either side, one to the rear for guidance - and a good, synchronized chant, they were able to make their statue ‘walk’ into place. They said getting it started was the hardest, since it didn’t want to move. But once it got going… they had to work to stay synchronized, else the statue toppled over, or ran away, dragging the guide team. I found it very fascinating

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

I really enjoy your videos, the science is fascinating, especially this one. I had always wondered about Stonehenge - Why, When, How, etc. You have mostly answered those questions for me, thank you. I would like to make one small point - there is no such thing as a Metric Ton. 1000Kg is 1 Tonne, pronounced a bit like Tone instead of Tun. 1018 Pounds in the UK is an Imperial Ton, 909 Pounds in the USA is an American Ton. Please don't misunderstand me, I don't mean to sound hypercritical, it's just a small point that irks me. Keep making these awesome videos, they're so informative. I'm 70 now and I still enjoy learning new things, and you present these so well.

[@MechaShadowV2]

I think you meant 909 kilos? A ton in the states is 2000 pounds. Unless pounds in England is different than pounds in the US?

[@brucerogermorgan2388]

@@MechaShadowV2 Yes, I meant Kilograms, sorry. I'm not in the UK either, I'm in New Zealand. We changed to Metrics in around 1967, I think it was, so Metrics is all we have. , thank goodness! Imperial measurements are just awful, and so confusing. I grew up with them until we changed, so I was familiar with them.

[@bed22455]

Gotta give props to Hank. The more of these episodes I watch the more I like his presentation. He does a really good job of presenting the features and having a good personality and actual intelligence about various topics. He's a really good host!

[@crystalbell1598]

Stonehenge is an extreme interest to me. Thank you for this video, Hank Green.

[@martijngroenendaal2562]

I think because they were so in touch with earth and the seasons, they waited untill there was sufficient snowfall and frost to make a pathway icy and thick with water to slide the stones. At the site there might have been ramps made of wood and snow to place them.

[@maydegalawen1115]

Just realize to myself that Sci-show is my place to clarify science-related rumors. Hearing information here makes me confident to believe in something and practice them.. ^_^

[@TaylorMade511]

They outsourced the job to the Egyptians.

[@krashd]

Stonehenge was built 2,000 years before the pyramids.

[@abbihamed]

@@krashd actually they were built around the same time www.quora.com/Which-is-older-the-Stonehenge-or-the-Pyramids

[@nziom]

@@abbihamed so the Egyptian surpassed everyone in there time's

[@jamesrussell5196]

ECM Pinky and contracted it to the Hebrews

[@nziom]

@@jamesrussell5196 that doesn't make sense

[@MrHeyyouguys123]

I live in Salisbury very close to Stonehenge and i really appreciate how accurate this video is :)

[@emilypresleysee]

When you are scrolling through the suggested videos under the video you're watching... and it's only scishow vids... and you've already seen them all... and you think to yourself, "maybe I should watch something other than scishow? Nah" then go search for scishow vids you HAVEN'T seen yet... I 💚 you scishow.

[@lst1nwndrlnd]

I have lots of distractions these days. If I were asked I would be super down to help make a Stone Henge. "hey wanna hang out and drag this rock to the next town, there'll be pizza and beer" It was likely easier to convince people back in the day. No 9:00-5:00 schlogg. Likely massive community support and pride. Stack rocks dance around a fire count me in!

[@cassiesevigny]

Really appreciated this episode! One minor presentation note: Since Hank's wearing red on a green background, every time he moves my eyes interpret an even greener "shadow" where he just was. Good ole opposite colors 😊

[@veronicabrowne2132]

And I can't even get my friends to help me throw out an old sofa.

[@tsmspace]

Although it's worth understanding,,, (my opinion), it's not about "who built" or "how built". Obviously, they built it. That means they were good enough to do it. Secondly, Their existence means that the site was once near an urban center. (okay, 'urban'...). Big rocks turn out to be very simple, very impactful technology. If the sun is shining on an area, this makes the air behave a way. A big rock changes how the air is affected completely. Stonehenge was a public works project that very practically made the area more livable. Today, we control shade, erosion, mud, etc.,,, Stonehenge means they were doing it then too.

[@sebastienh1100]

Interesting - I would love an episode about Gobekli Tepe - the oldest temple in the world, far more ancient (-8000) and more refined than Stonehenge. It is in East Turkey

[@ammattt]

I've always considered it a park bench for giants every time I look at it.

[@Sonicgott]

“Why” is the only question left to answer...

[@buggaboo2707]

Probably to track the sun ( and stars ), so that they could know when to plant and harvest crops

[@gdolphy]

Could a warning to attacking tribes. If you can't build this you can't beat us. Then came the guns.

[@Leongon]

It's tracks the sun and moon, it predicts eclipses.

[@veronicagorosito187]

Reasons...

[@dunn0r]

Well, for one it's a ritual and burial site. And it's a calendar.

[@mrsslibby6857]

I forget where I saw it, but I’ve also seen a video talking about the theory that the position of the stones is based on astrology like where the sun rises during the winter solstice and they used it as some sort of calendar or something. I’d be really interested to learn more about whether or not there is other evidence to back up that theory.

[@Christopher-N]

(8:28) I recall seeing an experiment being conducted about the construction and movement of the Moai monoliths on Easter Island (probably a PBS _Nova_ special). I would suggest that how the Rapa Nui people carved, moved, and raised their monoliths, and how the builders of Stonehenge did it, should be unsurprisingly similar, despite the two unaware of each other.

[@RangerRuby]

This video was super interesting! I knew that scientist and archeologist do not know much about Stonehenge, but I didn't know anything about what we do! Thanks for sharing and DFTBA! 😊

[@ancap_rem]

"The Stonehenge has been built in a faraway land!"

[@MGSLurmey]

I'm so surprised this comment didn't catch on.

[@Nitro-Blue]

Love this

[@CousinBowling]

After 30 turns of trying to build it and only one left.

[@peapie5920]

How am I just seeing this now!?! Great vid as always!

[@carlw72]

At minute 11:35.. “and lasers!” It just struck my funny bone the way he emphasized the word ‘laser!’ Pls keep up the great work!!

[@AnarchistAaron]

I live like 10 mins down the road from Stonehenge been and touched the stones they are huge in person

[@AnarchistAaron]

Hanif Huzairi I would guess 6-8m but I could be wrong

[@UkSapyy]

lul, to think of the hundreds thousands of people who touched those stones before archaeologists came along and stopped people touching a 20+ tonne stone.

[@AnarchistAaron]

tommy aronson it’s hard not to when everyone is crowed around them during the summer solstice. Some idiots try to climb on them but obviously that is not a good idea unless your looking to get arrested

[@peach8440]

I’m the same but you can only touch it once a year unless you jump the rope at night I guess :(

[@marctelfer6159]

I was working on the 2008 dig between my first and second year at university, and one day we had a big group visit. And, of course, someone on my course licked one of the sarsens :P

[@Post-ModernCzechoslovakianWar]

The Pillar Men made Stonehedge long before they traveled to the Americas. Something Araki tries to hide from JoJo fans.

[@Post-ModernCzechoslovakianWar]

@spider love Thanks fam! I think your profile picture is epic as well. *What type of Spider is it?*

[@blitzwaffe]

AYAYAYAYAY

[@Post-ModernCzechoslovakianWar]

@spider love Thanks for letting me know. I've heard of brown recluses before, and they made me scared of spiders when I was younger, cause I never know what they looked like before, so I thought any spider I saw could've been a Brown Recluse. Now I really like spiders. Also that spider looks ♥♡♥really cute!♥♡♥

[@Post-ModernCzechoslovakianWar]

@All Abored Thanks! I'm glad it made your day a bit better! :D

[@purpleboye_]

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[@cheshirekat3050]

I remember when my family visited Stonehenge when I was in high school. It was unusually sparse of visitors that day, so when no one was looking, I slipped under the ropes, walked up to it, and put my hand on one of the standing stones. I felt really connected to it; and it made me proud to think that my ancestors had made such an incredible work of engineering, mathematics, and astronomy, thousands of years before the Greeks even had writing.

[@World_Theory]

I think a series of leaders of people, over a long stretch of time, decided they wanted to build something really cool. So they did.

[@tedphillips2501]

Personally, I would like to see a movie whose premise is Stonehenge was the first human constructed StarGate.

[@zebedeesummers4413]

Would be neat. Maybe make it somewhat similar to the Atlantis series. But with earth not being thr starting point.

[@SymplyAmazingJD]

I have the strong feeling, that such a movie exists at least it should since it sounds plausible

[@gabor6259]

They should have continued Stargate Universe. :(

[@Taikamuna]

It was built by minecraft steve

[@stevenlarratt3638]

Ssshhhhh its meant to be a secret

[@mysund]

Finished by Steve. It was started by herobrine, but he was removed from the project.

[@brandonvistan7444]

He was just using the useless blocks that were occupying his inventory after mining.

[@user-se7zb2gh6d]

Indian guru Shri mataji said it was a Kundalini temple kzbin.info/www/bejne/f520pqWEaZKakNk

[@easygoingdude9990]

These segues into the skillshare spot have been amazing

[@IAmSweetPea]

I love all of your channels! So many times you trigger great sciency conversations with my 9 year old grandson. He wants to be an astronaut.

[@Ngamotu83]

Nah. Stonehenge was built by aliens to imprison the Doctor.

[@jonathanblanton9863]

I was waiting for the utility use of stone henge. Those engineers really did some incredible work

[@chillsahoy2640]

I think a key point about carbon dating that not everyone understands is that the proportion of carbon-14 is continually being replenished in the atmosphere so when plants absorb CO2, that carbon will always be in the same stable proportion of carbon-14 to other carbon isotopes. That means that any animals which eat the plant, or eat whatever ate the plant, will also be continually replenishing carbon-14 via new plant matter. When the organism dies, they stop ingesting new carbon-14 but the carbon-14 they already have continues to decay.

[@cube2fox]

The host (Hank Green) is my favourite science show host!

[@crovax1375]

Well it's pretty obvious to me that the mighty wizard Merlin casted a spell to travel back in time to begin construction of the Stonehenge

[@marvintpandroid2213]

Don't visit Stonehenge, go to Avebury instead, much better and there is a pub in the middle.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

Is it a real druid pub?

[@luizarthurbrito]

you have convinced me. I'll write that down so I don't forget

[@TragoudistrosMPH]

Lol, my cousins said visit Aurendale instead, and that Stonehenge wasn't so impressive lol.

[@monopoly1027]

Avebury is great!

[@marvintpandroid2213]

@@TragoudistrosMPH Both are good places but for very different things.

[@RealUlrichLeland]

Do a video on the megaliths of orkney. Skara brae, Maes Howe, the tomb of the eagles and the Ness of Brodgar especially are some of the best preserved and most extensive examples of Stone age architecture in the world. The Ness of Brodgar was only first excavated in 2003, and some of it's architecture is so old that it predates the Neolithic era.

[@bobg1685]

Nicely done.

[@donjuanguest3697]

Hank is the best

[@pyotrkropotkin406]

I knew it was IKEA. Their stuff is such a pain to put together but I do it anyway. This is probably true for the people who put up Stonehedge.

[@redsnowpenguin]

This video gives me a better perspective on this than I had but I wish there's discussion of other henges (stone and wood) contemporaneous to Stonehenge and the ball-bearing things excavated all around these henges!

[@martinconrad9260]

Great to see you in front of the camera more lately, Hank!

[@danilorises]

A giant granite birthday cake Or a prison far to easy to escape? - Ylvis

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

Oh my goodness someone remembered

[@martijngroenendaal2562]

Moved in winter over prepared ice road. Lifted with ramps made of wood and snow. Stones selected by square characteristics due to glacier. They were very aware of seasons and earth

[@DarkAngelEU]

That would be really awesome, actually. Just throw some water on the ground and wait for it to freeze, then slide it along. But what if it slips off?

[@zippy3711]

I love listening to him talk.

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

I live quite near to Stonehenge, good vid!

[@thedude7319]

All this hate on merlin tho

[@uddhavn]

Even the dumbest videos of your channel are smarter than my brightest ideas . You rock scishow .keep up the good work .

[@foxpwns2]

its an observatory that can be used as an eclipse calculator, they could play with the single beam of light that enters bounce it around in a circular chamber to create multiplication patterns. could also use it to form a calendar which additional stones would be laid out. the people who built stone henge were on the move often and didnt seem to mind dying there since it was a feat of engineering at the time.

[@getdavemoore]

enjoying Hank's pronunciation of our placenames... ;) Still love ya, Hank

[@HTPCYMC]

What if Stonehenge isn’t actually made of stones?

[@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758]

It’s made out of henge

[@cheezuschrist1102]

I will always respond to your comment

[@GrexTheCrabasitor]

@@cheezuschrist1102 no you wont

[@DRiungi]

dude, when are you making that video? my metal computer is still filthy af!

[@unicornswag888]

꧁꧂ That's a nifty username.

[@A.Filthy.Casual]

"WHAT'S THE DEEEEEAL WITH STONEHEEEEENGE?!"

[@President_Starscream]

There's a great book by Bernard Cornwell simply titled _Stonehenge_ which imagines what a historically accurate story around the building of Stonehenge might be like.

[@kay1a_0606]

Hello Starscream

[@President_Starscream]

@@kay1a_0606 Soundwave old friend! How's life in the Decepticon commune?

[@kay1a_0606]

President Starscream very well how are you?

[@President_Starscream]

@@kay1a_0606 having trouble accepting that I may not be the best leader for Cybetron, but Windblade has proved exceptional.

[@davidbergmann8948]

Great stuff 🍄

[@voidremoved]

some dudes ghost is laughing that we fuss over a spot where he had a camp fire once

[@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758]

Muscle hank put it up, Duh!!

[@PeterVandivier]

@5:25 listening to this while assembling an ikea shelf. Now convinced I’m a wizard

[@lazyperfectionist1]

Here's something _I_ would like to know. Given the centuries that elapsed between when construction on Stonehenge began and when construction on Stonehenge ended, it stands to reason that (of course) the original designers had _long_ since passed away by that time. Was it their intention for construction on Stonehenge to end? Maybe modification of this site was expected to be something ongoing.

[@elmile824]

'WHY DID THEY BUILD THE STOOOONEHAAAANGE I THINK ABOUT IT WHEN I DREAM THE BIGGEST HENGE THAT I HAVE EVER SEEEN' -best song ever XD

[@JonO387]

Yeah, it was wizards. They had help from dragons though...

[@TheGeekess]

Time Team did a very interesting dig at Stonehenge and some of the related areas nearby. I suggest if one is interested in the subject that they hunt the video down here on KZbin.

[@kwanarchive]

Actually, there were many more predecessors of the Stonehenge at the site. The earliest were made of straw, but they got blown away. The next phase were made of wood, but they got blown down too.

[@object-official]

And they were all blown in by a big bad wolf.

[@Brownyman]

"The Irish Origins of Civilization" By Michael Tsarion.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

It's simple. The Pioneers rode them there.

[@juliascotti3818]

Here in Brazil, back in 2005, archeologists discovered another circular structure build with megaliths (not just one, but something about 450) It's also mysterious to them, was also build with huge heavy rocks, it's circular and they're not sure how it was build. But as far as I know they're not much like Stonehenge, since they were build by different cultures at different times (the Brazilian one dates back to 1000 years after Christ and was used until +/- 500 years ago, when the indigenous people had their first contacts with Europeans) There can be found lots of historical artifacts such as statues, idols, etc. It's worth checking out and another proof of what humans can do with their intelligence even in remote times.

[@thomas-marx]

Love you content

[@checkmyplaylist6879]

The Rock helped put those rocks up

[@CynBH]

😅

[@ryco105]

dr. mantis ??

[@DagarCoH]

Nah, @Muscle Hank did not need help for that.

[@connorking984]

It just curled up

[@dirk9787]

My life is so successfull I've got everything a man could ever need. Got a 1000 dollar haircut And I even have a talkshow on TV. And I know I should be happy, but instead There's a question I can't get out of my head. What's the meaning of Stonehenge? It's killing me that no one knows Why it was built 5000 years ago. Why did they build the Stonehenge? How could they raise the stones so high Completely without the technology We have today? When I make my jalapeños Calamari and prosciutto I'm the king! My wife applaud(s) me in the kitchen When I tell her all I bought is from the local store (And) When the kids have gone to bed, we're all alone She gives me a smile Then she plays with my balls (But?) All I think of is Stonehenge I think about it when I dream The biggest henge that I have ever seen What's the purpose of Stonehenge? A giant granite brithdaycake Or a prison far too easy to escape? Stonehenge! Stonehenge! Lots of stones in a row! They were 25 tons each stone, my friend But amazingly they got them all down in the sand And they moved it (Stonehenge!) And they dragged it (Stonehenge!) And they rolled it 46 miles from Waleeees! - Heeey (46 miles from Wales!) What's the deal with Stonehenge? (Oh, what's the deal, what's the deal, what's the deal) You should have left a tiny hint When you made this fucking labyrinth, of stone! (Who the... ) Who the fuck builds a Stonehenge? (fuck builds a Stonehenge?) Two Stone Age-guys wondering what to do Who just said: "Dude, let's build a henge or two!" I would give anything to know About the Stonehenge Yeah, I would give all I have to give Would you give them your car? (Mmm) Are you kidding me, of course I would have given the car What car do you drive? Drive a Civic, drive a Civic. Drive a Civic! A car you can trust! Never mind the car, let's talk about the henge What henge is that again? It's the Stonehenge, it's the Stonehenge! God, it is the greatest henge of all! What's the meaning of Stonehenge?

[@connorking984]

Uh huh

[@josephholloway3130]

First off, you need to look up a demonstration of students walking replicas of the statues from Easter Island. That is one way of moving large stones. Second, dating people and stuff at a site only determine the "at least this old" for the site. It's only a starting point and not a finish line, but somehow been accepted for 100s of years.

[@nyar2352]

Thank you so much! Now please do one on Göbekli Tepe, to quell the cacophony of internet crazies!