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Re:A Scottish Provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge by kwhitefoot on Friday August 16, 2024 @01:21PM (#41268372)
What else was there to do? There was no Internet, no television, no football (perhaps), no books, no broadcast radio.

I'm only half joking.

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Re:A Scottish Provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge by alserio on Friday August 16, 2024 @02:16PM (#41268874)
Maybe someone was "visiting" Scotland, and decided that it would look good in their backyard
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Re:A Scottish Provenance for the Altar Stone of Stonehenge by deepsun on Friday August 16, 2024 @04:14PM (#41269960)
Yea, ancients had a certain taste for decorations.

For example in Assyria, to get an audience with their king Ashurbanipal, I believe, one had to go through a corridor full of heads of king's defeated enemies.

We often forget how violent past was. It was extremely hard to live to adulthood without killing anyone.

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