Re:Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders
by foxhop on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @08:08PM
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Most of the literature attributes the walls to early settlers and colonists. The vast amount of walls especially in places that were never settled makes this hypothesis wrong and outright misleading. Some walls were created by colonists but you would need millions and millions to make _all_ the walls in this region with in a time span of 150-300 years.
It's simply impossible for the farmers to have built all the walls, even if thats all they did was build walls all day every day for generations.
The early colonists were sustenance farmers and there are no journals or diaries or documents which talk about them building walls.
Re:Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders
by wirrbel on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:40AM
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I don't write that much about making excel spreadsheets. I'd assume that when they stumbled over a rock they put it on the side of their field, arranging it to a wall. They might have just wrote down "field work" in diaries (if they had the time to write).
Re:Stonehenge: DNA Reveals Origin of Builders
by foxhop on Friday April 19, 2019 @06:56PM
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You don't write about spreadsheets, but if we look at the library or the internet we can see that at least one person writes about spreadsheets.
There is not one piece of written evidence that the colonists created all the walls. There is not one piece of written evidence that the native Americans built the walls.
We don't know who built the walls.
Edit: I'd add that these stone walls are still used by surveyors, especially when the historical records may be spotty, but also just because they in many cases happen to still fall along existing property lines. There _are_ a few "ancient" stone sites in New England of disputed origin, including "Mystery Hill" (also known as "America's Stonehenge"). But there is a strong argument to be made that these were constructed by modern Americans as hoaxes.