Stonehenge

About 5,000 years ago,  a bunch of pagan Celts figured out how to transport a cluster of gigantic stones to a place called Stonehenge.   It's out in the middle of nowhere, eight miles from Salisbury, and southwest of London, in the U.K..  There are no quarries nearby where the rock could have come from.  No one is sure where the stones came from.

Two huge questions remain mostly unanswered.  How did they move such massive blocks of stone?  Why did they do it?

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I went there once. It's power - psychic, spiritual; whatever you want to call it, - is undeniable. It comes from knowing that humans wearing animal skins, just a step beyond cave dwelling  choose to do it, then found a way.

Stonehenge

There's a lot of speculation about the purpose of Stonehenge.  The positions of the stones link it to the seasonal rhythms of nature.  It also seems to have a been a burial place and at times a place of pagan celebration.

Whatever it's purpose,  Stonehenge is an amazing memorial for a human culture in which even the wheel was a new innovation.    It had to have taken a singular focus to get it built.   Given the massive scale of the challenges the current human civilization must deal with, the kind of cultural focus required to build Stonehenge 5,000 years ago would be extremely useful right about now.