Can X Marks solve an age old question

[Livingston]

Derek,

There's a very simple answer.

It only took one man

One man with a vision

a man with a dream

a man with plan

a man who had a bunch of overseers with whips and spears

Hey, it worked for the Egyptians!

Cheers

Panachehey

Panache, that's 5 men not one. Where'd you learn how to count?

[Kilted KT]

I meant this as a serious question by the way .. you guys take the biscuit .. but its good fun .
Anyhow .. now answer how they knew the Bluestone was there in the first place and why it had to be the Bluestone at Stonehenge. What u guys will come up with next will be .. awesome no doubt ..
Iechyd Da
Derek

ahh...very simple...the leader of the early celts convinced the common folk that there was a rare single malt whisky burried deep within the blue stone...and it could only be extracted if the stone was moved to where it currently resides and a great many rituals were performed. A massive search for the rare whisky stone ensued.

I am sure it made for quick work.

[angel923]

Who knows with continental drift a few quakes and an ice age to boot the original site might have been next to the bluestone quary and when there seers saw what was about to happen they packed up everything and moved to a new location, kind of like an ancient mobile home/meeting house.

[Splash_4]

It is probable that they found the blue stone the same way coal and other earth stones were found. Some of it was laying on the surface and some poor soul stumbled on it.. Once the properties were found, it was all over.

[Joe Gondek]

I'm sure that bluestone was traded in some form or another
There would have been trade routes that covered 250 miles easily

You find shells and pipestone tradeed all over the U.S. in pehistoric times

The henge was built over many generations moving the stones a little bit at a time over many years

I waiting for a time machine so I can go back and watch

[Caradoc]

They floated them when they could and rolled them on logs when they could.

That works a lot better than people think.

A friend of a friend destroyed his truck with a half-ton chunk of rock when he put it on the rollers (made from chunks of telephone pole), and it rolled right into the side of the truck at a pretty good rate of speed.

Yes, whisky was involved in that one.

(Important note: if you're planning on trying this, do NOT lay out more rollers than one length of stone, so if it gets away from you it STOPS.)

[Dreadbelly]

According to the Entropy Paradox, a time machine would only be able to go as far back in time as the moment it was created.

[RK-REX]

That works a lot better than people think.

A friend of a friend destroyed his truck ...............snip......................
(Important note: if you're planning on trying this, do NOT lay out more rollers than one length of stone, so if it gets away from you it STOPS.)

AND... Always be sure to have someone running a video camera. ;)

[Fearnest]

That works a lot better than people think.

A friend of a friend destroyed his truck with a half-ton chunk of rock when he put it on the rollers (made from chunks of telephone pole), and it rolled right into the side of the truck at a pretty good rate of speed.

Yes, whisky was involved in that one.

(Important note: if you're planning on trying this, do NOT lay out more rollers than one length of stone, so if it gets away from you it STOPS.)

Never, EVER, get mixed up in something like this... especially when your buddy says "Dude, watch this!"

[The Wizard of BC]

Derek, a serious answer to your question is that the early ones didn't have TV and Professional Football to waste time on. They knew their enviroment intimatly. All their recesources came from the natural world and they were always on the lookout for new and different rocks, plants, animals.
As soon as you find something, you figure out what you can use it for.
The early ones were not dumb. In fact they were just as smart as today. They had their geniuses too. Have you ever held a Clovis point in you hand. Amazing the dexterity and intimate knowledge of the stone needed to make one of those. I can't do it, and I've got books and computers to show me how.

And Trade - It was far more widespread than we thought 10 years ago. In N. America flint from the hills of Texas was traded all the way to Canada.
In the British Isles chalk from the south and coal from the midlands are found at almost every site. These only hint at the vast and active trade of the times.

Of course they knew Bluestone existed, and where it was found. Now all you need is a will to make Stonehenge and Woodhenge. Humans will find a way. We always have.