# Stonehenge

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge/804829>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [December 19, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge/804829 "2017-12-19T01:21:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge/804829/1 "2017-12-19T01:21:07Z")

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(An older thread referencing the column had been locked). [Here’s the 2003 column.](https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2114/whats-the-real-story-on-stonehenge/)

I’ll start us off with two comments:

1. The Pliocene era was three to five million years ago, not 650,000. I think the Welsh bluestone (dolerite and rhyolite) really was deposited (volcanically) during the Pliocene, but I’m not sure.

2. “Christianity has been around less time than Stonehenge” – well, duh. I think Antiquarian meant to say “Christianity has been around less time than\* it took to build\* Stonehenge.” Now that’s pretty amazing (and equally true).

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**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge/804829/2 "2017-12-19T01:34:56Z")

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3: "=inches. '=feet. Don’t screw that up.

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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge/804829/3 "2017-12-19T05:38:39Z")

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SDMB’s own **Lynne Kelly** offers intriguing new insights about Stonehenge in her recent, excellent and highly acclaimed book _The Memory Code_.

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**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge/804829/4 "2017-12-19T14:08:30Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> SDMB’s own **Lynne Kelly** offers intriguing new insights about Stonehenge in her recent, excellent and highly acclaimed book _The Memory Code_.

I haven’t read the book but I watched a 45-minute video of a presentation she did on it and it absolutely amazing. I even had a brief e-mail conversation about Quipus and the Nazca line -with me being Peruvian- and she was incredibly nice and gave me even more information.

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge/804829/5 "2017-12-19T19:06:55Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> SDMB’s own **Lynne Kelly** offers intriguing new insights about Stonehenge in her recent, excellent and highly acclaimed book _The Memory Code_.

Looks cool. Added to Amazon wish list. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge/804829/6 "2017-12-20T03:45:55Z")

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I’m still working through the textbook version: Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies: Orality, Memory and the Transmission of Culture.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stonehenge/804829/7 "2017-12-20T03:57:28Z")

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Got cut off by life - - wanted to add that The Memory Code is cool on audiobook.