I actually had a memory of being in my mother's arms going through a local grocer's check out line when I was less than 1 yr old. I recognized that grocer/ owner when I was 19 working at a Shop Rite across town when he was shopping the produce dept and he remembered my parents. Now the memory of his face has disappeared but the interaction has always confirmed what might have become a lost memory.
He looks older than 1 in the photo. Such young memories can be built on talks and dreams that become etched in one's early mind rather than reality. Some of my earliest memories are real memory and others from childhood I know were dreams, but so vivid they feel real. Others I can't say for sure.
@@stephenking4170 I understand what you are saying but I know from my experience that it is possible to have a memory from such an early age. I had proof at the age of 19. I am not saying that other possible memories might be from dreams or dream-like fantasies. I have also questioned some possible memories as such.
the more intelligent the adult the more they have memories of early childhood. i do remember beestings when i was 19 months. i was held in my mothers' arms and carried into the house and washed in the sink. 20 years later i related this story to my mother and she was shocked when i described the whole traumatic event. unfortunately, i do not remember many happy events even when i was 3.
I agree, they chose a strange "angle" from which to present the story. As if they felt compelled to manufacture a negative side to an inherently positive story, and then add a clickbait title for some reason.
@@bob-yd8xv No you don't. You've been told stories or you've seen pictures. It's not a memory. Same as this guy on the news, he's seen that picture of him at stone henge and made a memory of the picture he doesn't really remember that far back.
this is pretty shocking to be honest considering how difficult it would have been for them to have transported the stone from scotland to southwest england. for anyone remotely interested in archaeology this is definitely a shocking discovery.
@user-hx3ko7vj4y really .My father was an officer in the army, he saw it in 1945 while being stationed in the UK. He wanted his family to see it also . Your nutz
@@Kyteasahighespecially when you look like you pal... Which by the way you'll never be apart from something you can wipe your arse on..after all Irish was founded by ninjas the reason we get Tyrone yup..
Most people don't know that many of the stones had fallen over and were propped back up in the 20th century across several preservation projects. If you look at paintings of Stonehenge from the 19th and 18th centuries you'll see a largely different layout, with so many stones collapsed and fallen over.
Some were intentionally toppled into pits, fires built on them then cold water put on them to help them get smashed up. People in the 17th/18th century thought they were used for devil worship.
as she said they were NOT English, Scottish and Welsh back then, so the whole little story about the Welsh being worried about some rock coming from Scotland is absolutely rubbish. Listen to the archaeologist don't put your little spin on it
The famous leader, found in the fantastically decorated tomb. Of course a **man** - until someone measured the hip bones some 50 years later. "Prejudices are stupid" 😂
The “irony” is that the co-author is a Scotsman and that the research is led by an Australian university. Pity the BBC only barely even mentioned the name of the university.
'Stonehenge' was rebuilt in 1901, there are old photographs and a number of articles describing the work. As well as many written protests from outraged archaeologists. More work was carried out more work was carried out in 1919 and 1920, with the excavation of the Altar stone and re-erection of the Trilithon in 1958. Further 'restoration' was done in 1959 and 1964. Compare John Constable's 1835 painting of the Henge, with the way it now looks and the extent of the work becomes plain to see.
There is always an screw left over after construction and you hope that it wasn't meant for an important reason as to prevent collapse of whatever it was you were building.
@@samsmom1491 "You sure the screw wasn't important?" "Nah mate. No worries. This isn't going to topple. I bet ten thousand years in the future they will still enjoy our stone circle and the precarious tower we built next to it."
I'm Scottish and proud, but I hold heartedly say I am not one of the Scots taking pride that this is from Scotland. There was only incredible people with incredible endurance, incredible abilities to survive the elements and challenges that one would not even think of today, and incredible beliefs. Wherever it's from, it's still amazing. And for me, it's the distance the stone was transported that makes this discovery and monument even more intriguing, not what 'country' it came from.
As a fellow proud Scotsman I agree, but being a proud Scotsman I also have to say Skara Brae in the Orkneys is older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge but,*in my Michael Cain voice* "Notta lotta ppl know dat"😅💯🏴
I'm Celtic, pagan and proud and glad to hear the stone was from the ancient north lands. In truth we ran out of stones from Wales and had to outsource it to our pathfinders and they found one further up the highlands... Jokes aside, this would be accurate if say the stone was produced and transported in the 6th century (where the beginnings of 'Scotland' started in Dai Rata), but we're talking about 5000+ years ago when most of the lands were Celtic pre-pagan tribes and villages.
What they don't tell us is that it all started in a pub. Somebody said "I bet you that you can't drag that big rock all the way to a place that will someday be called Wales." and the answer to that was "Hold my mead!"
@@Ron-d2s nah more like if I'm wandering around i cant brew up this new beer stuff from the grains so i think I'm going to keep my herds here harvest the grains for bread and some beer and have a drink every night before I go to bed ! fact the brewing of beer date wise coincides with people settling down including the malting floor marks found inside some of the structures.
@@Ron-d2s You have to give me a warning before posting comments like that one, so I don't drink coffee right before reading it. Now I need a new keyboard...
I live less than a mile from the stones, have done all my life. Once you walk around the area enough and visit all the barrows near the site, you realise how important this site has been for most of history
did you feel the wind and energy during full moon and did you bring a gem stone and tried touching the main stone and felt the energy that wanted to pull you in and suck you into another time dimension?
I went once. it's definitely the most disappointing famous landmark on the planet, without a doubt. I don't know what I was expecting, but it literally is just some random stones in a field. They aren't even that imposing, which is emphasised by being surrounded by so much flatland. There's little to no precision work with the stone itself, unlike what you find in Egypt; and there's too much weathering to even discern a true shape. They've also been restored and shifted around over the years, so who really knows what the original design looked like. And to top it off, you're not even allowed to get close enough to get a decent look the surface of them. Not that you'd really want to.
@@neverbob4206there's a HUGE difference in the brain of a 1yo and a 2.5yo. Remembering as a 2.5yo is remarkable, as a 1 year old it's actually impossible.
@@neverbob4206fake/false memories are also a known thing, this guy was probably told about going when he was a little older then his brain fabricated the experience.
This discovery is pretty amazing and changes a lot of what we thought we knew about Stonehenge. If the Altar Stone actually came from the north of Scotland instead of south-west Wales, it means people back then went to incredible lengths to bring it all the way to what is now south-west England. That’s over 700 kilometers! It shows that building Stonehenge involved much more cooperation and effort than we realised. It also suggests that Neolithic Britain was more advanced and connected than we used to think, with communities working together across long distances to create something truly remarkable.
The expert being interviewed said that the Neolithic people were just as smart as us, only they used different technology. It occurred to me that at least some of them were actually smarter than us, because they figured out how to move these enormous stones long distances using only Neolithic technology, and we still have not figured out how they did it.
@@MyFiddlePlayer Sweety... They put that thing, on a boat, to bring it south. That's all... I would guess, in the whole action, where little more than 100 people involved...
2:08 'and presumably it wasn't just a matter of engineering. there must have been some sort of social cohesion for the Scots _and the Welsh and the English_ all to work together.' 🙄 the Welsh or the English? 5,000yrs ago? there were no English and the Welsh weren't 'welsh' but the natives to the land. the land was settled by neolithic people we probably can't call Celtic or Picts yet. this neolithic population had more in common with earliest farming communities in Anatolia, indicating that a major migration accompanied farming. 90% of Britain's neolithic ancestry was replaced during the Bronze age and _Bell Beaker_ culture. now we can start to talk about Celts etc. a BBC reporter should know at least some basics. 5,000yrs ago the necessary 'social cohesion' to bring a large stone from northern Scotland to the south of England required a lot of effort but certainly not along the lines of much more modern cultural boundaries between Scots, Welsh and English. what an absurd notion. 🤭
It just suggests trade existed which is blatantly obvious and well known. I think we can trade within our island when others had trade routes cross continent 😂 to try to apply woke stuff to it is hilarious 😂 I guess there was a lot of social cohesion between the British and Africans as we worked together to grow cotton in the new world 😂
This is really actually quite heartwarming, that everyone on this island from different tribes and clans came together way down in the south to create a shared place of worship
@@ezriderzzr7104very few human remains have been found on the henge site. It certainly wasn’t a sacrificial site. More likely to be a Neolithic monument or calendar.
@@theohyeahkid8500 The point being it may well have been a sacrificial sight, the fact there are very few remains means very little, people were known to take remains and wear them as a symbol of whatever their preferred fairy story happened to be at the time.
I remember things from age 2. But age 1 is crazy. It’s definitely possible for someone with a bright mind. People who are breast fed their brains develop faster.
@@rars0n It is possible. I have one memory from around a year and a half old, and more at 2 years old. I never understood the kids who said they couldn't remember before they were 4, always found that bizarre. It's not possible, FOR YOU. But for others it is.
Some people can't remember their childhood, some people remember pieces, some people remember absolutely everything outside the monotonous. I'm in my thirties and have pieces of memories from that age. I can remember pushing a giant thomas the tank engine thing through a massive hallway with a red carpet. That was me at 1, leaning on a thomas the tank engine thing to learn to walk as I pushed it through the lounge room. If your parents made your early years fun and enjoyable, there's a chance you'll remember lots of it.
While not impossible in this case I’d suggest he has formed memories based of the photo which showed exactly what he described. In short he didn’t remember it. Rather his subsequent visits coupled with that photo allowed him to create a false first person view memory of the initial visit.
@@titaniumquarrion9838 I had the same, I thought I remembered a bunch of stuff until my parents showed me the old movies of me. Turned out I had watched them and the memories was from me watching them at a young age. My oldest memories not recorded are from around 2,5-4 years old. And they only exist because I brought them up a few times after we moved when I was 4-5 and I felt homesick.
Their is one very special truth about Stongehenge,wich says.That Stongehenge was builded by the slavs,as solar calendar,on same parallel as Arkaim.And this is just one truth,wich western,and nordic academia,are trying to falsefy.And even so if slavs never did builded Stongehenge,their are other parts of slavic culture in britain.So let's ask real question,wich is.Why nobody talks about slavs,and 7532 years long slavic influence on europes cultural and historical development?
There was no Scottish, Welsh or English people back when Stonehenge was built. For some random facts: The identity of the people who built Stonehenge is unclear, but many historians and archaeologists believe that multiple groups contributed to the site over a period of more than 1,500 years, ranging 3100 BC to 1600 BC (Long before even the Saxons are mentioned to exist, less alone the Anglo Saxons and later on the English): -Early Mesolithic hunter-gatherers Archaeological evidence suggests that these people may have made the first modifications to the site. -Neolithic agrarians These people, who may have been indigenous to the British Isles, are thought to have completed the first stage of construction. -Groups with more advanced tools These groups may have left their mark on the site later, and some believe they were immigrants from Europe, while others think they were native Britons. Putting this here in case anyone is interested
None of the Humans on the British Isles were "natives" nor "indigenous", since Homo Sapiens did not evolve here. All Humans have ultimately been "immigrants" in here. Or in other words, "an invasive species". So it is rather a question of who was here first. .... And that's it.
All stones in Denmark, where I live, was transported by the ice during the last ice age. We have some massive stones that originate from Sweden. So perhaps the same thing happened to this stone?
Glaciers never made it this far south, they only ever reached the north of England so at best it would have only shortened the journey a bit. We also know that they manually transported stones from Wales so moving large stones over long distances was obviously something they were doing. What I'm intrigued about is whether a tribe in the north brought the stone down and then returned home or whether a tribe in the south went and got it or if it was just one tribe travelling around Britain and collecting stones as they went! Will probably never have an answer to that.
The biggest mystery about Stonehenge is how English Heritage manages to make visiting it so complicated and bureaucratic. You have to order your ticket, then join a queue to collect it, then join another queue to check it, then join another queue for a bus when they make a big deal about checking again. I remember the good old days when you just bought a ticket and walked a few yards to see the stone. Better visit Avebury if you want to see older stones and get treated with respect.
I googled Avebury and on its wikipedia page, I was puzzled that this monument seems to be in Germany. Then I looked again on the map and foud out that what I thought was a map of Germany is in fact a map of Wiltshire, they just have similar shapes.
@@samuela-aegisdottir lol. yes. i know what you mean, although perhaps the old West Germany. Avebury is a lot better than Stonehenge. You can still drive through the middle, you can touch the stones and it feels a lot more natural like it is part of the village, rather than a commercial tourist attraction. also it is older than Stone Henge, so it claims that title too.
So at least some of the ancient people of these islands understood the huge value of cooperation. Many people nowadays could do with learning from that example.
That's speculative. Maybe there was a great war and the south won. They enslaved all the northerners and forced them to move their priced stone to the ceremonial grounds of the southerners.
@@ChrisM541 Nah the Welsh and Scots were fairly peaceful relative to the rest of the world before the fire nation attacked, also known to be highly collaborative for the most part, probably because they're both cursed to living on a relatively resource-free island. I mean not that any history of any group is perfect or without bloodshed... again just relative to the time and the conditions.
The fact that it came from that region does not necessarily means that humans transported it there during Stonehenge's construction; it could have ended in the "local" region thousands or millions of years ago before that due to Geological events and then transported from much closer; or even have a similar composition from the forming years of those regions (it's not like they are continents apart) after the Pangea. Impressive discovery still, informative, just let's avoid basing all theories in the pre-notion that it must have been transported there by humans of that time, as that is in itself it's own speculation.
Here in the Netherlands, in Drente we have our "Hunebedden" made from huge stones, transported by the glaciers of the ice ages, all the way from Scandinavia. Why would that be different in the UK?
@@janhemmer8181 Exactly my thought. It's one thing to assume that stones were moved from a known quarry up the side of a mountain by ancient peoples (as in the case of many South American megalithic sites.) But here, glaciation and/or cataclysmic flooding seems far more likely.
A more plausible reason for the Alter Stone is that it was probably transported south from Scotland by the constant movement of the glaciers which covered Britain up until the 10th millenium BC, where I live in South Cheshire we have boulders of 'Blue Stone' from the north of Scotland which were transported in the same way.
@@carolinebritten3390 If you have been to Stonehenge you may have seen the avenue coming from the East towards the monument, this was scoured out by the ice during the ice age which lasted for 1000's of years, so yes, the ice did reach this far South and into mainland Europe at some stages.
That’s what I was thinking. Even the Egyptians weren’t moving rocks that heavy very far across land and floating blocks down the Nile would be way easier than around the coast of Britain and then up one of the two rivers that would get close to Stonehenge. In the US we have Canadian boulders delivered by glaciers sitting in midwestern farm fields so the same thing likely happened in this case.
From the Guardian, RU-vid and Wikipedia: In the 100 years between 2600BC and 2500BC Orkney Neolithic religious sites declined owing to climate change. Orkney had been the epicentre of religious Britain but after 2600BC Stonehenge took on the role. The Neolithic early farmer religion centred around megalith building and had done so for millennia going back long before 4300BC when the first Neolithic farmers came to Britain bringing their families, cattle, sheep and pigs with them on boats. When the Orkney megalith builders arrived at Stonehenge in 2600BC they brought everything with them. There is evidence of huge feasting on the animals they brought with them at Durrington Walls. The large Sarsen stones were put in place by these people in the two centuries after arrival. Bringing the Altar stone with them from Orkney and installing it at Stonehenge was well within thier capabilities. The ancestors of these people had been hauling giant stones about for millennia and had been sailing in British and French waters with them since at least 4300BC. Being from the New Stone Age, Neolithic, they were highly skilled in everything related to stone work from procurement to engineering and installation. I don’t think this discovery alters our understanding of connections between Neolithic communities but it probably does show that certain stones became so important to communities that it was worth lugging them to a new home wherever that was.
Do you think it's possible that descendants of these Orcadian people might still exist in Wiltshire? I noticed somebody else on here saying they had centuries old Wiltshire ancestry but their maternal DNA was Orcadian. I'd love to know.
Thank you! I was going to say something similar and add that the oldest known stone circle (possibly the first) still stands in Orkney. A stone from there would probably be incredibly sacred for the builders of Stonehenge.
@@legrandmaitre7112 If you look at Dan Davies ‘The rise and fall of Neolithic Britain’ the early farmers came in after 4300BC and spread up the coast of Britain. On the way many settlements were created. All of these people were probably related in some way and would, in essence, define what is meant by ‘British Early Farmer DNA’. As for Orcadian early farmer DNA, I don’t know how different it would be from general British Early Farmer DNA. I guess, after millennia, it would be different. Anyway, when these people came to Stonehenge, they would have integrated and added their DNA to the local population. Much later, the CordedWare people of Yamnaya origin arrived and their paternal DNA swiftly replaced the local Early Farmer Paternal DNA. All that was left was the Maternal Early Farmer DNA from the original population some of which may have been identifiable as of Orcadian origin. In my view, given that during the medieval period mobility of serfs was repressed and, even in my childhood, we regarded people from neighbouring villages as foreign, I’d say it is highly likely that some of the Orcadian maternal DNA still exists in the local population. I’d start with the girl who calmly wandered across to the recent orange spray activists and took the paint away from them.
@@marknewellmusic I think it's because the people in this country would rather pretend everything is sunshine lollipops and rainbows when they know damn well it isn't. They always have to bring in some sh it about ive got no dad, I've got a single mother, blah blah blah blah blah I thought this was about Stonehenge. Let's all cry and hug....
I count myself very fortunate that I actually got to see Stonehenge once. No, there's nothing magical or mystical about it but it's still amazing to stand and look at something so old.
The old glacial area that I live in on Lake Ontario near the St. Lawrence and many other rivers, has unbelievably old rocks of every kind. There is an awesomeness to the large rock formations east of the Adirondacks.
@@Erichev My understanding is that they only open it once, maybe twice a year. And apparently that is so a Druid cult can go in and practice their creepy rituals.
@@Erichev Yes, I was very disappointed at that. I was hoping there would be some vibes coming off of it but there was nothing. A long bus ride from London and all I have to remember it is a tee shirt and a postcard.
@@kempedkemp I think there's an archeologically controversial theory that the bluestones of Stonehenge were transported by glaciers, and it's not a stretch to imagine that the Stonehenge builders might have recognized a uniqueness in them and put that to use.
@embreis2257 you can't date stone giving a human term of time, only things like wood, leather, steel, pots and so on. Stone is millions, often hundreds of millions of years old
Yup...my thoughts also. Somehow that stone ( and probably others like it but smaller) was already in the vicinity and noticed, so chosen because of it's uniqueness and size to be the main feature. That possibility needs to be looked at.
There was no England, Wales or Scotland when Stonehenge was made. Why jabber about national prides in a bygone time when people, apparently, were more united and sensible than now?
lol that's a fantasy. people were as tribal then as a they are now, if not more so. your tribe was literally the only thing that kept you alive. it made sense to stick to your own people. stop talking kumbaya rubbish.
There were probably tribes back then but no Scotland and Wales and England. What is fascinating is how and why it was decided to bring a six Ton rock from Scotland. How it was organised and achieved. It must have been a huge task and involved a lot of co-operation between Tribal people. Sadly it is probable that we will never fully understand what was the social relationships between the people of those times. But it suggests there was certainly some form of co-operation between them.
Only if you try to see it from the lens of Neo-Marxism, was it social cooperation. In reality, it was probably something to do with the lack of it and the abundance of abuse, control and slavery that was going on back then in the whole world.
Uhm nope, my brother and I both scare our mom with how much we remember from less than a year old. So you know visual memory is the strongest memory a person can have. I’ve drawn pictures for my mom and she freaks out saying no way you could’ve remembered that!
At least 20 years ago it was known from analysis of feasting bones from pits all around the area that the animals feasted upon included animals from northern Scotland and that people from all over Britain came to worship and feast here. IF this piece of news of the Scottish origin of the altar stone is a surprise, it's because Archaeologists are too myopic to read outside their narrow specialities. Thus, while it is news, it shouldn't be that much of a surprise. Only a few years ago, a drilled-out core from one of the Sarsen stones was turned over from an individual involved in reconstructing part of the henge. Analysis of the core, a cylinder of rock, allowed a precise geographic location of the stone's origin to be made, rather than the general "Marlborough Downs" assumed since Stonehenge first became an object of scientific interest. No one knew he'd held it for nearly a century because these people don't talk to each other and jealously guard their little secrets.
I think it's more the distance it must have travelled that is astonishing, not that Scots were involved. They didn't touch on that in the piece, though, just went for the Wales v Scotland thing which is just daft
Paragraph one - maybe the said remains came from migratory animals. I prefer that explanation to the daft claim that Scots travelled all that way with their lunch bags!!! LOL
It's only fairly recently that they were able to track down the area the stone came from. What they find interesting is *how* it got there. As proper reports have said, it would not have been brought down by ice / glaciers so it's most likely to have been humans. Considering the size of it and the tech of the time, *that* is what is interesting to them.
@@JaneAustenAteMyCat Glaciers during the ice age explain this. Parts of the Netherlands also have some constructs made from big stones, and those stones are known to have been brought their by glaciers. I find it difficult to understand why the stonehenge scientists are reluctant to accept this very simple explanation.
It wasn't transported. The central alter stone was likely already there, and the henge was built around it. The stone was likely picked up further north and deposited where it lays during the last ice age as the glacial ice flowed south, and then later melted. Glacial ice is capable of encapsulating and moving huge multi ton stones as it moves.
@@markscott3158Yup, they are called erratics, or erratic boulders, either moved inside a glacier, or on top of one. There are at least 5 within 2 miles of me, and they’re really big.
Say what you want, but remembering your dad bringing you somewhere, anywhere, when you were a 1 year old is amazingly impressive. Do a lot of people remember things from when they were one? I certainly don't know anyone who does. That might be more impressive than Stonehenge itself!
@@DolphinsPlayingInAquaMoonlight A positive, but it is genetic. I'm just finishing my 2nd 150+ page book on my world during the first 14 years - only the selected stories worth repeating.
Technically some people do remember even their infancy - quite literally. Especially if they have eidetic memory and/or hyperthymesia. It's incredibly rare though of course. So as unlikely as it may seem, it's not impossible. But then again, they would probably state it overtly if that were the case to make this story seem even more unique and interesting.
Same with the Sky at Night. "At Night the Moon is that big bright thing in the sky and is not actually the Sun which is to be seen during the day only" (Give me strength)
@@mr.spinozano, some people remember stuff from back then, whether its remembering a moment of frustration from wanting to say something but not being able to speak yet beyond a few words, or in my case being confused by why im moving backwards when my carseat faced backwards, and remember the black horizontal lines on the windshield false memories do exist though and are plentiful for people so we cant believe every supposed memory from early years, but i find it crazy hearing some people unable to remember as far back as 5 years old, whereas i remember being 3, as well as being excited that id turn 3 soon
Imagine, that stone had such immense meaning & importance to the people who used Stonehenge that they spent untold human capacity on bringing it all the way from the Orkneys. That stone must've had almost unimaginable power & significance.
That's all that makes sense. The transport isn't so amazing as the why. Ancient peoples were just as smart and often a good bit more imaginative than the wad of people today. But yes, to justify that effort it had to be borrowing something powerful from what it came from. And that implies a network of at least knowledge of special powerful places, at least through Britain. It's not unlike bringing a piece of some edifice to be used in a new related one today. Or even the significance of a flame joining one Olympiad to another. I suppose one would have to also consider a people moving south and going back for their holy altar stone. All of that speaks to specialists who knitted together society. Or perhaps a holy man was charged with a sort of grail quest to go out and find a source of power, and this is what he came back to report finding. Or was it a gift of northern peoples? It would be interesting if a local stone was found to have been taken to Scotland. Now that would be some powerful affinity if people traded massive stones.
@@mrgclough Wonderful comment. I marvel at the why, tbh. Any nearby stone could've served...but they knew it had to be this one, that required hauling 500 miles as the crow flies. So it seems the stone's immense significance must be an INVISIBLE significance, ie the stone has spiritual or narrative meaning rather than a stone-specific practical use. It's possible this stone had already been a community member for generations in the North, set in its own little Stonehenge. Protecting the community, marking the seasons of planting & harvest, hibernation & rebirth. Serving as a literal touchstone that held & unlocked--& holds & still unlocks!--stories of the past & future. Immense invisible undertakings for a stone. But whatever invisible role the stone had, it did it with such success it was hauled south to continue its calling there. It definitely speaks to networks, both visible & invisible. Amazing how this single bit of information expands our ideas about Stonehenge & our ancestors. Unfortunately so much of history is invisible to us because we've lost not only the old stories, but the ability to see & understand the old stories.
Except it didn't have any power or significance at all. It was just another glacial deposit from the Ice Age like thousands of others. Do you seriously believe humans from that era could transport such stones, fording rivers and the Atlantic Ocean to a place that they didn't even know existed, using rafts made out of wood? I can picture the scene. ''Right, lads. Let's hoist this six-ton megalith onto our wooden raft. Right, let's set sail. Ooh, fuck. We're sinking. Who would have thought that?''
@@mrgclough Maybe there was a druid like a rock star that everyone loved. One day the druid says that all tribes have to bring one giant stone to this place or their families will be cursed. something like that.
Aliens transported the stones to the site. They stacked the up in a somewhat random way and said “The humans will be trying to figure this out for centuries” as they flew away laughing
I've heard that this is one of the worst tourist traps in the world. Very small, surrounded by highways, and you're not even allowed to approach it. Mount Rushmore is even worse imo.
Rushmore is an environmental disaster. The visitor center is the real tourist trap. Plus, the Chief Crazy Horse monument, in is an even larger destruction of Thunderhead Mountain depicting the Chief riding his horse; as if saying "Fuck You" to the white presidents' sculptures.
It is definitely a fine experience. The stones themselves are the least interesting part. It's the whole surrounding, neolithoc landscape that is the most fascinating bit. Like the gigant old road - The Avenue - that leads up to Stonehenge, the surrounding "ditch", once a white circle of chalk encompassing the site. Or the long barrows on the surrounding hills: elongated mounds, graves of old. There is also the nearby Woodhenge. If you read up on the site you will get much more out of your visit. 😊
A one-year-old does not remember that, but you’re looking at pictures of yourself as a one-year-old on your dad shoulders so that’s why you have that memory .
The only 'shocking' news is that "he remembered" visiting Stonehenge as a one-year-old. Also, the spin of the story implying allegiance to one country over another is nonsense. Science has no allegiance, and if the discoverer believes no one from Wales "will ever talk to him again" then his objectivity has been severely impacted by the journalist's spin.
Haha I found the "he remembered" part ridiculous as well. I think the scientist was merely being polite to the interviewer. It was such a silly question. I mean the main question would have been - why did they bring the stone down to Stonehenge in the first place ? What are the theories behind that? "
Technically some people do remember even their infancy - quite literally. Especially if they have eidetic memory and/or hyperthymesia. It's incredibly rare though of course. So as unlikely as it may seem, it's not impossible. But then again, they would probably state it overtly if that were the case to make this story seem even more unique and interesting.
@@Sylkis89It is not possible to remember anything from that age. These are false memories constructed later. Eidetic memory has nothing to do with it - it's a question of human brain development.
@@AriaIsara It's because most people lack the capability to think outside of their shoes. If they couldn't think of something or do something, no one can.
I stopped watching as soon as you spewed that "he remembers being brought to the site as a one-year-old" nonsense. His geological work is liable to be just as bogus as his personal narrative.
Memory is an amazing thing and we possess very different abilities of it. Just as it’s inconceivable for me to imagine being able to remember every moment that I’ve ever experienced, there are well documented and researched people, past and present, who can. I love that about people, we are all so different.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 🙄 I remember the moment and what happened. Why is this so hard for people to understand? There is no difference with remembering any other moment from any point of your life. The only difference is that you have many memories from when you were 12 but maybe only 1 or 2 when you were 2.
It's so annoying to see such a clickbaity title from a *supposedly* reputable news source. Scientists are not interchangeable, they all have a speciality. Adding to that the "shocked" by discovery clickbait, it's really sand and frankly deplorable. I have no intention of viewing the contents of this video to find out what meaningless piece of trivia will be reported here. For those who want to use RU-vid to find some relevant info on Sonehenge and similar stories, good starting points would be channels like "Dan Davis HIstory" or "Fortress of Lugh". Shame on you BBC for using such detestable headlines.
IQ has gone up about 30 points in the last 100 years. Of course there will have been geniuses then but people were definitely not as smart on average as they are now. Just having a basic education from the 21st century would make you know more than anyone from 5000 years ago.
@@efdbjon2114 I didn't take it that way. It's just that present day people seem to have this self delusional concept that they are far superior to anyone else that we need to be reminded of sometimes.
Actually, according to many recent studies, our intelligence is now lower than it was in times gone by with our brain capacity actually slowly decreasing every generation. My own pet theory is that, being part of a larger collective allows us, as individuals, to have fewer skills. In less devloped societies, surrounded by a more hostile environment, you'd need a vast array of skills just to survive. It seems the last remaining evolutionary force that still works is that of finding a mate to pass on your genes to the next generation. I fear that, in the future we'll be a race of beautiful idiots.
Yes, it is. Stonehenge was not built with all that effort on that spot by chance, "Oh the ice just happened to carry it right there and as they have nothing better to do, build something we would struggle nowadays!".
@@seffard No need for attitude. Try imagining another scenario. A tribe finds a huge stone they decide to use for ritualistic purposes, over time it becomes a "holy" site, and preperations are made to make it more magnificent, at which point they start dragging other stones across the country to build the shrine. In reality no one knows what was going on back then, but the ice during the ice age has been known to drag huge rocks around while migrating and leaving them behind when it thawed.
@@CurtainofDisaster I was being cheeky because its purpose is actually known by some. What is told by the mainstream is a lie to keep people oblivious to the truth and conditioned to ignore anything spiritual. Fortunately this is changing for good.
@@CurtainofDisaster You can bet its purpose is actually known by some. If I told you why this knowledge isnt widespread this site's AI would hide my comment and you wouldnt likely believe me so far from our reality it is.
@AriaIsara Yes, you're right, of course Karen, I always 😂 when I'm upset. Try a bigger size of knickers if they're cutting in and making you uncomfortable. Or have a lobotomy to attempt to cure your far left twonkery .
