Herbert Henry Thomas
Herbert Henry Thomas
it wasn’t aliens?
https://youtu.be/HMofDWzfA6A
Builder. One man.
The click-bait headline makes it sound like Thomas was completely in error about his research.
“After spending 10 years examining various rocky outcrops in the Preseli Mountains, Bevins and Ixer realized that Stonehenge’s bluestones did, in fact, come from the Preseli Mountains, but from completely different outcrops than Thomas had initially identified.”
Whoop-de-do. They fine-tuned his work. They didn’t debunk it.
But that doesn’t make for an interesting read. The writer had to make it sound like Thomas was involved in some petrological cover-up and super-sleuths Bevins and Ixer used modern techniques and knowledge not available to Thomas to suss him out.
Whee!
Besides the other problems, I would think if the stones were moved by glacier there would be a moraine thereabouts with lots of stuff deposited. But Salisbury Plain really is flat.
The Neolithic peoples in Britain and Ireland put up big rocks. Sometimes they put other rocks beside these rocks. And sometimes they surpassed this accomplishment and put rocks on top of other rocks.
And then the light of Jesus Christ fell on both lands, and they produced O’Carolan and Yeats, Shakespeare and Python, Guinness and Fuller’s.
I rest my case.
In before the first Spinal Tap reference...
Advanced European Neandertals before they were almost exterminated by the so-called modern humans.
Interesting.
The most disappointing place I have ever visited.
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He said it was a natural stone formation?
Or a launching pad for ancient aliens?
Or a primitive birth control device?
Thomas was so widely respected that nobody questioned his work for decades. Moreover, it led to the idea that, after getting the bluestones from Carn Meini, the prehistoric people then took a bus and traveled southward, downhill, to Milford Haven, where they apparently picked up some lunch and Stonehenge’s purplish-green altar stone (made of sandstone) and then possibly boated the stones on the Laxton Ferry though Bristol Channel as one leg of the trip back to Salisbury Plain, Ixer said.
Settled science.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
...and said "Stay off the moors!"
