Decoding the ancient astronomy of Stonehenge
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- The solstice alignments of Stonehenge, explained.
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Note: A previous version of this video referred imprecisely to "Neolithic Britain" when discussing the Newgrange tomb in Ireland. We have removed that phrasing. My apologies to the Irish.
Stonehenge is a popular destination for summer solstice celebrations because the 5,000-year-old monument points toward the summer solstice sunrise on the horizon. However, it also points to the winter solstice sunset in the opposite direction and there's good reason to believe that this may have been the more important alignment for the Neolithic people who built Stonehenge.
We investigate by constructing a tiny model of the Stonehenge monument.
Sources:
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June
@@amiththomas5065 lmao
cool
A month late, thirty dollars short!
Was this video created while the editor stayed at home? If so, cudos ^_^
Ah, Dead Hippos - standard unit of measure
I weight 13/20 of a dead hippos
You are one very important youtuber to me. Nice to see you here.
Ikr, why didnt she use more international unit - Toyota Corollas?? Sad
What I've Learned - that was brilliant
”unit of measure” wut?
It's not really fair to say "it's not exact" where the Sun Rises.
Since back when Stonehenge was created, the tilt of the earth's axis was different than it is today, so it was probably was exact.
you are correct. the earth moves all the time. lookit Versailles vs herrenchiemsee
yeah but I think they also feel inclined to acknowledge that because a lot of negative nancies are going to be in the comments arguing it's not "exact" and try to belittle the architectural and archaeological marvel that is stonehedge
EireNero mmhm, when she mentioned modifications made over time I was wondering if any was due to shifts!
Also, apparently the stones are slowly sinking into the ground, so they may have moved or tilted a little bit across the years.
Marco Plo what about Versailles?
50% of the comments are about Joss, and the other 50% are about dead hippos. That's it, no need to scroll further down
Thanks bro!
Ok thanks😂
So look up.
She is hot, though. Mixed gene is the best.
Thanks dude
i almost feel we’re not giving the people enough credit to how smart they really are. like we depict these people as primitive humans in loincloths but to actually build something like this is actually incredible. like the weight of each piece, the alignment to the stars. like it’s not fair to look as them as less advanced versions of us because was accomplished was incredible
THey, and all the ancient builders, obviously knew SOMETHING that we don't know today.
this was probably built in the golden age of Leo right now were in the opposite age Aquarius which is 180 degrees from the golden age. In astrology sun is the most powerful in Leo. And the sun is kinda our mini god without it there would be no life here.
White man showing his geniality since the beginning of time!
@@visaodissidente5560 lol
@@visaodissidente5560you probably aren't even related to them, sush
You made a video centered on a model-making kit and it's just as interesting as if you had gone to the U.K. Incredible talent!!
i ve watched videos of joss before and at the beginning i was like.. shes really gonna make a model and talk to her phone's camera? and it still was the best video i ll have watched this month probably. kudos to vox and joss herself. putting out consistently quality content!
Nick C ikr right? It made Buzzfeed's set up looks dumb
William Alena yea. They are dumb come to think of it, cant believe i fell for them. Lately they have been playing with period blood. Utter disgusting.
TFW the neolithic people who built Stonehenge know more about astronomy than flat earthers today.
Wrgrtgrethrye Getgrtgrtheweerrg ... True. The only flat thing for these flat earthers are their heads.🌙
@@janetcraft And their IQ Graphs...
And more than you do as well
Stonehenge was built around the turn of the twenty-first century after the military sealed off the area for a couple decades. They're masonic-propped displays of dupery. So is the sideshow known as the Great Pyramids and any other structured compound that's claimed to be ANCIENT.
Don't worry there were id*ots back then too. There always is a small percentage of them.
Am I the only one who wants that Stonehenge kit?
Yes
No, I want one too.
it's on AMAZON:'v
You're not alone
I want it too
When she said she couldn’t come to England right now... but it’s 3yrs old
HAHAHAHA I also checked the date of the video
i had the same thought. this def feels like a video they would have made in quarantine
anonymous bosch FRR
I thought they made this during quarantine. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Underrated comment. I legit thought this recorded in 2020.
lol, it seemed vox spent all the budgets on Johnny.
he has! the docs are in the works and will be published this fall! In the meantime, you'll see his dispatches here.
P why not both?
has he been to the DMZ in Korea and the Wagah border in India?
nah, I feel like vox is the only proper media that actually nails at calling trump out on his dumbass actions so I would still want them to do both... buuuut little more of this women I agree
hahaha
Why do the hippos have to be dead? Now I'm sad.
Michael Yi You wanna drag live hippos all the way there?!
Michael Yi because living hippos move themselves
Michael Yi dead hippos are heavier than alive ones
because living hippos would eat you alive if you tried to "move" them.
so they can't walk!
I think the sun rising on the heel stone was actually in perfect alignment when Stonehenge was built.
It was.
Probably
IIRC the Heel Stone was one of a pair, so the sun would rise in between them, and anyway, the Winter Solstice Sunset facing the opposite direction was the more important event, so ideally people would be walking through the Heel Stones and watching the sun set in between the center trilithons.
These people can cut, move, lift, and place stones in a manner that still mystifies humans, yet they dug with antlers? Awesome video.
DeeP and they made it all with “stone tools” yeah right. The problem is the egos of historians.
first contact Umm how else would they have made it?
@@arthurb8436 Stonehenge was made during WW2 by masonic aliens. If you don't know true History, just shut up!
X.R. Quilliam I really hope you’re being sarcastic.
@@arthurb8436 I'm actually pretty serious. Loominarty are leading humankind towards destruction and no one is doing anything to stop them
Vox spent all the travel budget on Jonny so Joss has to use a model kit instead
wrong choice vox ... wrong choice ...
Audie Liem but borders is amazing
@@CheeseTruffles but, have you seen Joss?
@@ForeverMan the places Jonny goes, Joss would probably get sexually assaulted everywhere.
@@ForeverMan Calm your pants young man
I think joss should be playing with real stonehenge
WHY DO THOSE HIPPOS HAVE TO BE DEAD JOSS
IF THEY WERE ALIVE THEY COULD WALK! ;) Maybe I should have said "napping hippos" -joss
Saddening ;_;
I never expected you'd answer this so i was virtually feeling like I was screaming into the void
did people forget about dead weight?
Hippos tend to be cantankerous... oh... and they can bite you in half. Hippos DGAF.
It's not a perfect alignment now, but you have to understand and realized. How the stars and the Earth were positioned back then.
@Zen Studio Even coming close enough back then is a marvellous achievement.
@Zen Studio Newgrange is older than the pyramids and in perfect alignment today.
Its called "axial precession'
@@_Richard_F___ give or take somewhat.
How about we build a *modern version of the Stonehendge,* with all the latest astronomical knowledge :-)
James Turrell's Roden Crater is reminiscent
Its called the clock on your wall
I'm in if we include the huge festival and feasts every year (maybe even twice a year)
umm no, stonehenge is (presumably) used as a means to calculate time and season, we already have the solution, so theres no need to rebuild the old stonehenge, it should be kept as is ,
@@rachmatzulfiqar Party popper
I am sad vox didnt mention how Earth's regression effects Stonehenge's accuracy
Milo McCarty Oh yeah
Minor error: To effect means to cause.
To affect means to change.
Could you or anyone explain what you meant by the "Earth regressing"? I'm genuinely curious and Google didn't answer
@@hereliesmyreputation2559 Earth is not a perfect sphere. When it rotates on its axis (imagine a line that passes through the North and South Poles), it drifts and wobbles. This is known as polar motion. Measurements for the 20th century show that the spin axis drifted about 10 centimeters per year. Over the course of a century, that becomes more than 10 meters. In general, the redistribution of mass on and within Earth such as changes to land, ice sheets, oceans and mantle flow affects the planet's rotation. As temperatures increased throughout the 20th century, Greenland's ice mass decreased. In fact, a total of about 7,500 gigatons (the weight of more than 20 million Empire State Buildings) of Greenland's ice melted into the ocean during this time period. This makes Greenland one of the top contributors of mass being transferred to the oceans, causing sea level to rise and, consequently, a drift in Earth's spin axis.
While ice melt is occurring in other places (like Antarctica), Greenland's location makes it a more significant contributor to polar motion.
I suspect that we can infer the construction date based on what year it _was_ in perfect alignment.
3:24 when your favorite drug dealer comes back from his vacation
lol
🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
I'm dead XDXDXD
Why do you say "his"? 🤔
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I'm really amazed at the amount of information you were able to deliver whilst keeping the video short and not have barrages of speech. A really excellent video! Thank you.
And she didn't really decode one darned thing. Probably just read what was on the back of the model box.
Somewhere there's a druid spirit saying to another "These people are still obsessing over that monstrosity Steve tried to pass off as art!"
no it's nothing to do with the Druids
I love when things are compared to dead hippos.
I use that comparison everyday.
I actually visited newgrange and the architecture was crazy considering the tools that the humans had back then. I find it crazy that they could build such things and that we can today still visit them.
It was a game called Jenga played by giants
Aliens man, *ALIENS* 🤦♂️
Nah, some ancient Brits came up with the idea after "a session" down at the 'Druid and Mistletoe'.
i laughed waaay too much at this
Actually, there’s a myth about how Merlin stole the giant’s stones from Irish territory (an area that could be where modern Wales is today, as it was Irish territory at the time) and transported them to an area of England that seems rather analogous to where Stonehenge is today. And given that the inner circle (the taller stones) of Stonehenge matches material from that area of Wales, and that that region was recently found to have holes in the ground that matched the dimensions of some of Stonehenge’s inner stones, it’s theorized that the inner circle of Stonehenge was originally constructed in Wales, then moved to Salisbury later. So…giants and magick.
you should put the grass before the stones xD
YOU ARE CORRECT i learned this too late - joss
Joss, you're beautiful
raul perez moraga But would the glue work on that crumbly grass powder?
Michael Echeverria Just say guy not white guy
how would she see where to glue everything?
What would you call afternoon tea at Stonehenge???
Sconehenge...i'll let myself out
AmbersImagination its pronounced ss-gone so it doesn't work
JA MacInnes Depends where you live!
JA MacInnes - did you miss something boyo?
You must be a northern barbarian, it's pronounced as if it's 'cone': with an s at the front - scone.
I'll get the door for you.
3:24 “Grass!” Her voice cracked
Okay,,, can we just talk about the visual at the end? On of the coolest things I’ve seen in a video.
Vox being consistent with quality content, the world is still sane.
The ancient Britons certainly knew the earth was round, as their unit of measurement was based off that of their trading partners, the Minoans of Crete. The Minoans based their own unit of measurement off the total circumference of the Earth, calculated to unbelievable accuracy. Source: The Dawn of Civilizations, Alan Butler
bullshit
Sorry to split hairs but the earth is not round, it's spherical. Actually not even a perfect sphere so it's an "oblate spheroid".
Nathaniel Escudero
round -
(adj.)shaped like or approximately like a circle or cylinder
(n.) shaped like or approximately like a sphere
"based off" does not make sense, it's based ON.
Sulu Ayran source?
Thank you for giving such a clear explanation in plain english, well spoken and to the point. A successful 6 minute summary with the bonus that watching is also visually entertaining.
I am in love with Joss.
My love for Joss is eternal. 😎
@@jairusaudwin2605 oh no
i swear almost every comment is about joss lol
including yours lol
Destruction *100*
*laughing secretly again after 3 months*
I'd love to go back in time and see such structures being built.
I just love her voice and the music, so soothing
"Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, 'Right, lads! Another twenty like that...and then we can party!'"
-Bill Bryson
Joss explains better than most of my teachers
It also helps that she's attractive
What if the neolithic humans were so huge back then,
the Stonehenge was just some kids' lego toy,
and the baby that owned it was playing it,
but then the family had to move their house in quite a hurry (nomadic type of family, perhaps) ,
so the their mom and dad left the baby's toy?
I'm drunk.
and then they jumped to the moon and then other planets.
One fact is true, humans were bigger in the old age.
yeah. but not "monster-sized" big
mialitty false we were at least on average smaller back then then we are yoday
Richard Does gaming not really... humans were bigger than our average 6' to 5'7 or so
Such a great video in every way, I can’t even believe it. So watchable and held my attention. Thank you!
The format of this video is really satisfying
You just know once you see this Vox Creator, the vid gonna be good.
FlamingGaming JOSS FONG
The last shot is absolutely gorgeous!!
I studied Stonehenge extensively during the 1980s and '90s. Not so much in the last twenty five years. I periodically check out Stonehenge videos on You Tube, but it had been years until yours attracted me.
I had built my own model at the time, which is probably why yours did..
Excellent model ad an excellent video.. Your six and one half minute synopsis succinctly summarized what I had studied, while makes a compelling case over that the monument's alignment was intended to greet the Winter Solstice Sunset, the diametric opposite of the then consensus that i was oriented to the Summer Solstice Sunrise.
Always a pleasure to learn something new. You have inspired me to update my study.
Thank you.
What an excellent video. So glad you brought out the importance of early farming, when to know the seasons are turning. When to work out your winter animal feed levels and feast.etc.
Thus episode rocked as usual
I'll let myself out
Kshitij Desai Damn. Underrated comment 👏
Why are you down here? Hahahahaha!
So johnny gets to travel around the world in his series, but vox won't buy you a ticket to England? (great model though)
Moritz L time of year
tourists aren't allowed to get too close to the Stonehenge anymore because of vandalism, probably wouldn't be worth it.
3:24 Grass!!
420
LOL
This is now my favourite video about Stonehenge. It's a beautiful explanation of the structure and probable function of the monument.
Judging from all the comments I'm guessing I'm one of the few people to actually watch the *ENTIRE* video before commenting!
I waited to but who cares it's a joss fong video
I've always been fascinated by how the ancients took Astronomy is an important discipline. Their whole life revolved around it. Apparently the Egyptian pyramids are aligned with the stars.
The bluestones were transported by people not glaciers. Not only has the rockface where they were quarried been identified, but even the exact spot for each one; and some of the tools (wedges) that were used are still in situ.
yeh, the wedges ! Fascinating that they are still there
Great job once again Vox!! And this journalist is always great!
the international committee would like to thank you for using the metric system.
I'm in love with Joss Fong.
Just Floss in Hong Kong.
me too
back off, she’s mine!
SIMP
YourAverageCrusty Controller. Yes
These stones are one of the greatest mystery on planet earth. Just thinking how the stones even got there is mind boggling
There is a lot more known. The bluestones were part of an older stonehenge in Whales, much further north and east than Preseli. The people of that region had trade routes with the region where Stonehenge is now and at one point, they moved with their stones to rebuild their structure at the current site. They could have easily moved the stones on wooden sleds at around the speed of walking, meaning they could have moved the stones in a week over land, on the same trade routines used for centuries. Years later, Stonehenge underwent a "remodelling" whereby the large Sarsen stone structures were built and the bluestones were moved.
Wales .....
Joss Fong needs to start Vlogging... I bet by the end of first day vlog she'll beat 50% vloggers in terms of channel subscription.
99.99% agree because the I'm not sure about that. A
Always fascinated by these arrangements of big stones, I remember the first time I saw its picture in an encyclopedia on a local library.
I think the stonehenge was used for watching stars and making lots of "festivals" during celestial events (not just solstice and equinox) :)
I would like to make a modern one, just like I think it would be super cool to make modern pyramids too (both made of real stone). I think the pyramids were amplifiers, and on certain occasions, the different chambers were used for seekers of the inner self to encounter it in in a powerful way in such an energetic place.
I never knew that the blocks they used fit together like that until this vid...great job!!!
99% Comments about the person doing the video, nearly zero about the topic the video is about...
James R. Astor from Austria thanks for this.
Including you 👀🤔🤔
*THATS NOT HOW YOU ROLL A JOINT*
Anand Nair you tell them anand... you tell em!
this was so soft like so smoothly made I love it and love you Joss💜💜
Thank you for relating the information for terms someone from Philly can get. That jawn was huge!
can we comment on the content Joss is presenting rather than what she looks like?
The level of stalking in comment section is truly alarming
Аркадий Телегин literally any time a women shows up, the neckbeards slowly come out of the basement. It's gross yet hilarious how they lack literally any sense of self awareness.
maybe people just like her? doesnt have to be stalking or anything.
Hypocrisy. I've seen girls on other videos commenting on men's looks. Even on male weather presenters. You don't get guys going, please don't comment on men's looks.
I object to the (blanket) statement "the people who built it didn't even know the world is round" ...
"these outer stones weigh around 25 tonnes" - so how many dead hippos is that?
Lovely to look at and lovely to listen to.
Joss makes all these videos more enjoyable 😎
Have to be proud of my ancestors for this.
i can enjoy everything Joss said without understanding what is it about ~
this was exactly the video i needed to watch today... thank you!
I could look at Joss Fong all day and not get bored.
3:23
I love the way she says "grass"!
I simply searched joss fong on UA-cam
I have to say that smooth lounge music goes well with just about anything, including a discussion of Stonehenge!
Easily my favorite video on the web
can you do Newgrange in Ireland next? it's really interesting
"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!"
Well spoken and done in a way that kept me interested.
Awesome Video Vox Team.
#TeamJoss
One of the best preserved ancient monuments in the world, and most comments are about the presenter...
Man shes good at building also i love learning about these facts i needed! really helpful on my Stonehenge project!
Very accurate and well presented.
Must have been a bummer on years that it was cloudy and stormy at solstice.
Rodd Wayne Almost every year. 😂
Met Joss Fong for the first time today. Joining the club.
Hi Vox!! I have to be honest, Ive only recently found your channel 🙊🙈😅 but so far I'm loving everything I'm seeing. Your videos are perfect. They are incredibly factual, and the information you deliver is of very high quality. Many everyday people have no knowledge of the Equinoxes, so your explanation of how the exquinox works was a brilliant inclusion and helped better explain Stonehenges relevance to that. And although you deliver it with a great level of maturity and professionalism, you also deliver it with a vocabulary that most people can understand. My niece finds history often intimidating and overwhelming, and it shouldnt be really. its a magnificent tale of what happened here before. And its a very intimate way of getting to understamd the human condition.
This was a beautifully executed presentation, i will definitely be watching much more of you and your lovely channel Vox ✌💯
I really enjoy your videos👌✨ keep it up!
what about it being able to predict eclipses! that really is amazing.
1st theory: it was probably a ritual sites for them.
2nd theory: ancient aliens.
Ancient- *_A N C I E N T A L I E N S_*
*A L I E N S* 👐
0th rule: religious and therefore political and economic power.
First of all, who is she? Quite beautiful. Second? That’s by far the best explanation of Stonehenge I’ve ever heard. Very fascinating.
How cool! Love your presentation!
"stronger than steel"
Stone age people: "I use the stones to break the stones"
I would have destroyed that model 30 times while doing it lol
Of course you would have.
I love building models my self..great grass work!
This has always been one of the most fascinating places to me
Is she an architect or did she just do a great job at investigating about Stonehenge?
Loved the video!
She's just a good jounalist
Keerthi Chandra lol exactly
She works at Vox after all
Ah, humans underestimate humans. This is really true. People think they're correct, and they can only do it, while some people thousands of years ago also did it. Yes, it would have more effort and time, but that just shows people way before was more patient. This just explains that we like to disrespect our ancestors.
I live really near Stonehenge, and it's such a pain, because it's next to a highway. If you're just trying to drive and tons of people make these huge traffic jams by stopping to look at it or slowing down a lot, it gets quite tedious.
Great way to present it. Smooth.