Scientists Discover Superhenge with Hi-Tech Mapping Techniques

CommanderFrank · Sep 14, 2014

Scientists are several steps closer to discovering the true scope and purpose of Stonehenge. Using modern mapping technology, scientists are beginning to grasp the enormity of the site they now call Superhenge. Scientists now date the original site back to sometime around 3000 BCE.

Scythe · Sep 14, 2014

Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge! Where a man's a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan

bucketlist · Sep 14, 2014

Silver Shamrocks Novelties....

sfsuphysics · Sep 14, 2014

adiocarbon dating suggest the stones were raised sometime in 2400 and 2200 BC

Wait what? I thought radiocarbon dating was only useful on organic material.

Megalith · Sep 14, 2014

Aliens.

Ocean · Sep 14, 2014

sfsuphysics said:
Wait what? I thought radiocarbon dating was only useful on organic material.

For the pyramids, they carbon-dated the mortar that got organic material trapped in them.

gordon151 · Sep 14, 2014

Megalith said:

My thoughts as well!

Skripka · Sep 14, 2014

Scythe said:
Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge! Where a man's a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan

Where the cats! Meow!

revenant · Sep 15, 2014

So.... the monks are out?

Ducman69 · Sep 15, 2014

A monument to how absolutely boring the world must have been back then, that they had nothing better to do but spend their lives moving rocks.

evilsofa · Sep 15, 2014

Only 5,000 years old? Gobekli Tepe has been carbon-dated to be 12,000 years old and has some very interesting stories to tell.

Youn · Sep 15, 2014

Ducman69 said:
A monument to how absolutely boring the world must have been back then, that they had nothing better to do but spend their lives moving rocks.

They also had families who're probably now spending their lives moving cubes.

jojo69 · Sep 15, 2014

sfsuphysics said:
Wait what? I thought radiocarbon dating was only useful on organic material.

contextual organic finds

HoffY · Sep 15, 2014

Ducman69 said:
A monument to how absolutely boring the world must have been back then, that they had nothing better to do but spend their lives moving rocks.

Probably more productive then moving bits.

Dr. Righteous · Sep 15, 2014

Skripka said:
Where the cats! Meow!

And Ohh, 'ow they danced. The 'ittle children of Stone 'inge beneath the 'aunted moon.
For fear that daybreak will come too soon!

Dekoth-E- · Sep 15, 2014

Time to start digging.

Skripka · Sep 15, 2014

Ducman69 said:
A monument to how absolutely boring the world must have been back then, that they had nothing better to do but spend their lives moving rocks.

Hey it's lasted 5,000 years. What monument to Angry Birds will still exist in 5,000 years?

8du8 · Sep 15, 2014

evilsofa said:
Only 5,000 years old? Gobekli Tepe has been carbon-dated to be 12,000 years old and has some very interesting stories to tell.

Hey thanks for this, that was a really interesting article. I've heard of Gobekli Tepe but had not heard of the Yazidi people at all.

Coaxial · Sep 15, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg

jojo69 · Sep 15, 2014

Here is a pretty good treatment of this same material from the late, much beloved, BBC4 series Time Team if anyone has more interest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GVfGUk48I

Scientists Discover Superhenge with Hi-Tech Mapping Techniques

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