Raving Madness At Stonehenge

British scientist Rupert Till revealed this week that Stonehenge is actually a purpose built outdoor rave arena, where ancient Britains threw massive parties and dance to samba and organic trance.

The sound expert examined the acoustic qualities of the stones as they were 5,000 years ago and discovered they reflected sound perfectly, making the circle ‘ideal for repetitive trance rhythms’, said the Discovery Channel.

“Echoes in the space indicate that there might have been rhythmic music played,” Till told reporters.

“This would be at a tempo of about 160 beats per minute, a fast tempo,” he noted.

“It is interesting that this is the tempo of fast trance music, of samba; It is at the top of the range of musical tempos. It is also at the top end of the range of the human heartbeat, the same as the heart might beat if you were doing really vigorous exercise, or dancing really energetically,” he added.

Leading British archeologist Aaron Watson previously examined the stone circle’s acoustics and discovered that its builders appeared to be experts at directing sound.

“Almost all of the stones at Stonehenge have been artificially shaped. It was noted during the research that the inner surfaces of many stones were dressed to be either flat or concave. This is not visually striking, but could improve the ability of these stones to reflect sound,” he said in a University of Manchester report.

“In contrast, the outward facing surfaces of the same stones are irregular or even convex. The enormous effort invested in dressing sarsens and bluestones into these subtle and barely visible shapes is difficult to explain, but it might suggest that the builders of the monument knew how to emphasise the movement of sound,” he said.

via Jonty Skrufff

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