Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each statement about Stonehenge: established or nonsense?
Groups: Established · Nonsense
- Constructed by Druids
- Part of a wider landscape of henges, avenues, and barrows
- Built with extraterrestrial assistance
- A precise working agricultural calendar
- Aligned to midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset
- Built in stages between roughly 3000 and 1500 BCE
Hints
- Every myth here refuses to credit ordinary people with the achievement.
- Established claims concern stages, sources and alignments.
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Established: Built in stages between roughly 3000 and 1500 BCE, Aligned to midsummer sunrise and midwinter sunset, Part of a wider landscape of henges, avenues, and barrows
Nonsense: Constructed by Druids, Built with extraterrestrial assistance, A precise working agricultural calendar
Why
Every myth in the right column shares a motive: refusing to believe that ordinary people, working together for fifty generations, could do something this hard.
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