3500 1520 BC Class Question How old do you think the people were that built Stonehenge? Answer 40% of the people who lived then probably died before the age of 20 A 30 year old person was considered old Therefore, it is most likely that Stonehenge was built by teenagers. Stone Two types of stone Neither is native to the area Bluestone 8 ft. tall, 4 tons Vertical sarsens, 7 ft wide, 3 4 ft thick, 18 ft long, buried 5 ft into the soil Lintels are the horizontal sarsens. 10.5 ft long, 3.5 ft wide, 2.5 ft thick Class Question How much do you think the vertical sarsens weigh?? Answer 26 45 tons each Origin of the stones Great debate. Were they moved to the area or left by a glacier?? Half of the stones were probably moved 200 miles by water and land from Wales Half of the stones were probably from 24 miles away A phenomenal feat to move them!! How were the stones moved? Great debate by historians
C. The cremation burial dating to Stonehenge's sarsen stones phase is likely just one of many from this later period of the monument's use and demonstrates that it was still very much a domain of the dead. " Etymology Christopher Chippindale's Stonehenge Complete gives the derivation of the name Stonehenge as coming from the Old English words "stn" meaning "stone", and either "hencg" meaning "hinge" (because the stone lintels hinge on the upright stones) or "hen(c)en" meaning "hang" or "gallows" or "instrument of torture". Medieval gallows consisted of two uprights with a lintel joining them, resembling Stonehenge's trilithons, rather than looking like the inverted L-shape more familiar today. The "henge" portion has given its name to a class of monuments known as henges. Archaeologists define henges as earthworks consisting of a circular banked enclosure with an internal ditch
Classical antiquity and in particular, the architecture of Ancient Rome, of which many examples remained. Orderly arrangements of columns, pilasters and lintels, as well as the use of semicircular arches, hemispherical domes, niches and aedicules replaced the more complex proportional systems and irregular profiles of medieval buildings. This style quickly
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