Stonehenge: An Ancient Ruin or an Architectural Masterpeice?

People have long since been fascinated by Stonehenge, an ancient assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, located in Salisbury Plain, England. They are generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple used as a religious center as well as an astronomical observatory. Famous astronomer, Carl Sagan believes that "somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" (Sagan 1). Likewise, it remains a mystery at Stonehenge how such massive stones could have been moved from the quarry at north Wiltshire by a supposedly archaic people. Some archeologists believed that these primitive people used pulleys to rearrange the stones, such as the Windmill hill people. Stonehenge followers and archeologists believe that the Windmill Hill people constructed and gave meaning to Stonehenge through their genius and primitive tools.

The creator of Stonehenge, which was built in 3100 B.C., remains a mystery to the scientific world. The alignment of Stonehenge has made it clear that whoever built it had a precise astronomical knowledge of the

A second and improved idea in which some scientists hypothesized was that the primitive Windmill Hill people assembled Stonehenge. The Windmill Hill people were semi nomadic farmers who had arrived as some of the last Neolithic newcomers in England. The Windmill Hill people also hunted, made tools, traded, and could have been compared to industrialists. They had a very strong religion with a significant respect for their dead and their ancestors. An anonymous archeologist states that “they have exceptional collective graves, in the form of long barrows, or long manmade piles of dirt, sometimes 300 feet long. Many riches such as food, tools, and pottery were buried with the dead” (Hawkins, 36). This is why some scientists consider that the Windmill Hill people could have built Stonehenge as a graveyard. Even though "there is no direct evidence to connect the Windmill Hill people with the early Stonehenge constructors themselves, but the presence in the same area of so many barrows, the Avebury circle, and the Avenue indicate an area of special significance and sanctity, which in turn implies organization on a tribal scale" (Balfour 1630). Scientists have dated that these builders began in approximately 3100 BC and ended in about 2300 BC. This is slightly misleading because some scientists dated that the Windmill Hill people were first

Monument. Thus, astronomers believe that the builders of Stonehenge and Stonehenge itself have an astronomical background and significance. Specifically, Alexander Thom, a professor of engineering and a mathematician, has shown that many sites, including Stonehenge are leaning towards the sun and moon. Thom comments that "we are dealing with the remnants of an earlier civilization, a civilization which vanished and has left behind only these few records in stone"(Thom 142). Many scientists are struggling especially with trying to unravel clues that are not visible. Another archeologist similarly points out that “the construction was highly accurate for the period. The engin

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