tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875025512179113568.post1165166232427027694..comments2023-10-21T03:10:09.566-07:00Comments on indonesia corners: The Mystery of Prehistoric Megalithsr.sudibjohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551862137331552825noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875025512179113568.post-20109231462315160472012-01-24T01:40:01.431-08:002012-01-24T01:40:01.431-08:00Thank you for your further elaboration. It certain...Thank you for your further elaboration. It certainly enriches and widens the topic from different angle of views.r.sudibjohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06551862137331552825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875025512179113568.post-31354100366840396592012-01-10T11:18:50.568-08:002012-01-10T11:18:50.568-08:00I believe the stones had a utilitarian function. ...I believe the stones had a utilitarian function. Their locations and orientations, I propose, have more to do with defense lines against an enemy who wielded bows and projectile weaponry. Not unlike today the cost of war must have consumed a large portion of the economy. The stones themselves resemble lines of soldiers, standing abreast and in rows. Often the broadest plateau of the stones were oriented to provide the largest surface area of coverage from incoming weapons. Archers could still shoot out between and duck to safety. Angles in dolmens could also then be explained as fox holes in the face of an arched enemy whose weapon would be launched on an arched trajectory. Covered in earth and grass they would have provided camouflaged areas to lay in ambush . Return fire could be shot out from behind metholithic lines which make for formidable shields. Semi-circle configurations provide a cone shaped field of defense against invaders. They were often placed along ridges and slopes of shorelines. Notches and holes might also have been used as sites for aiming and protection simultaneously. In essence they were fox holes and trenches.<br /> <br />Certainly ancient megaliths around the world were used for a myriad of purposes; shelters, calendars, ritual centers, and burial grounds. Perhaps some of the dead had been slain in battle, a fitting resting place for ancient infantry and warriors. It must have seemed that way also to the descendants who sometimes used these sacred stone areas to bury their dead, though they had long forgotten who built them or why they were there. Magical giants might seem a reasonable explanation to the distant children of the builders . Climatic calamities could have pushed increasing hoards of displaced peoples into ancient arable lands. They may have been refugees or aggressors on boats with powerful bows and deadly projectiles. This may have necessitated an expensive military defense response. Refugees of wars in distant places, wars to procure and protect decreasing resources. Cultures with bows have been depicted for ages throughout the world. Further more, if they were designed for ceremony might they not have been a bit more aesthetically pleasing?<br />a more detailed explanation is at<br />http://ancienttrenches.blogspot.com/Drusinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06806967203861207477noreply@blogger.com