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Scientist discovers the secret behind Stonehenge?

Queasy

Queasy

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In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...

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STONEHENGE was built as a dance arena for prehistoric raves, a university professor believes.

Dr Rupert Till, who is also a part-time DJ, carried out experiments that he says showed the 5,000-year-old stone circle is ideal for listening to ?trance? music.

Archaeologists have argued for decades over the Wiltshire Neolithic monument?s purpose.

But Dr Till, an expert in sound technology at Huddersfield University, West Yorks, believes the stones have perfect acoustics for repetitive rhythms like those used in some dance music.

He tested the effect using a computer model of Stonehenge and during a visit to a concrete replica built in Washington State, US.

And he came to the conclusion that ancient Britons shaped the stones to create special sounds.

He said: ?The results were interesting. The stones are all curved and reflect sound perfectly.

?We reproduced the sound of someone speaking or clapping in Stonehenge 5,000 years ago.

?It is clear that Stonehenge did have a very unusual sound.

?We managed to get the whole space to resonate, almost like a wine glass will ring if you run a finger round it.

?While that was happening a simple drum beat sounded incredibly dramatic. It felt special.?

The music theory ties in with existing ideas that Stonehenge was used for healing rituals or to worship the dead.
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Originally posted by: Queasy
In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...

Link

STONEHENGE was built as a dance arena for prehistoric raves, a university professor believes.

Dr Rupert Till, who is also a part-time DJ, carried out experiments that he says showed the 5,000-year-old stone circle is ideal for listening to ?trance? music.

Archaeologists have argued for decades over the Wiltshire Neolithic monument?s purpose.

But Dr Till, an expert in sound technology at Huddersfield University, West Yorks, believes the stones have perfect acoustics for repetitive rhythms like those used in some dance music.

He tested the effect using a computer model of Stonehenge and during a visit to a concrete replica built in Washington State, US.

And he came to the conclusion that ancient Britons shaped the stones to create special sounds.

He said: ?The results were interesting. The stones are all curved and reflect sound perfectly.

?We reproduced the sound of someone speaking or clapping in Stonehenge 5,000 years ago.

?It is clear that Stonehenge did have a very unusual sound.

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?We managed to get the whole space to resonate, almost like a wine glass will ring if you run a finger round it.

?While that was happening a simple drum beat sounded incredibly dramatic. It felt special.?

The music theory ties in with existing ideas that Stonehenge was used for healing rituals or to worship the dead.
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no. i thought the truth of stonehendge was already discovered? The argument I recently heard (which slips my mind at the moment); i recall it being much more convincing and logical than what this guy says. (not the OP, but the scientist).

Interesting theory nonetheless.

 
That's fucking retarded because there is no way that the builders of stonehenge could anticipate the acoustic properties of their design ahead of time.


Originally posted by: pmoa
tell me how they lifted those stones that high and we'll talk
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There's a video of a guy who sets up 2 similar support pillars by himself with only ancient tools.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
That's fucking retarded because there is no way that the builders of stonehenge could anticipate the acoustic properties of their design ahead of time.


Originally posted by: pmoa
tell me how they lifted those stones that high and we'll talk
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There's a video of a guy who sets up 2 similar support pillars by himself with only ancient tools.
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yea, like a circle of stones would have such a dramatic effect on sound in an open plain with no ceiling that they would bother setting it up. Not to mention, as TallBill suggest, how would they even determine if it was worth the effort before hand?

Yea, as TB said, some guy did it relatively easily with ancient tools. It just took some creativity. Granted, the tools he used, albeit ancient, wouldn't have been exactly the easiest to come across back then, but I'm sure they were available somewhere.
 
i have visited the concrete replica built in Washington State, used to live about 60 miles from it
i didn't dance around in it
 
Is it possible the replica's composite concrete structure had something to do with the acoustics?
 
Have you ever met a partyer or musician who was gonna help you move a 100 ton rock so you could party? No. They might dance on the rock sure, but as for digging it out, moving it hundreds of miles then building a ring? Oh hell no.
 
Originally posted by: TehMac
Druids aren't a fucking race, they're a caste within a society.


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Please go watch This Is Spinal Tap and then come back to this thread. Thank you.
 
Originally posted by: Specop 007
Have you ever met a partyer or musician who was gonna help you move a 100 ton rock so you could party? No. They might dance on the rock sure, but as for digging it out, moving it hundreds of miles then building a ring? Oh hell no.
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After a night of beers, marijuana, hookers and blow they may have ended up THINKING they moved them.
 
David St. Hubbins: I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

Ian Faith: I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it.

Derek Smalls: Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea.
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