Con la novedad de que ahora existe esta teoría, publicada por The Atlantic y tomada cada vez más en serio, de que las misteriosas ruinas de Stonehenge son un gran Litófono. Es decir…
Stonehenge is actually a giant musical instrument
We first heard of this theory in December, when Gizmodo UK reported that British archaeologists were given permission “to whack the henge, claiming the stones reverberated differently from each other and gave off subtly different sounds.” The sounds that emerged were almost like wooden or metal bells, giving rise to the idea that the stones were used almost like church bells, or perhaps even as a mode of communication over far distances.
Details were thin at the time, but a new report from The Atlantic gives us a bit more insight into the surprising theory, which posits that Stonehenge was a “pre-historic glockenspiel.” The rocks used at the site are Bluetones, a hard dolerite that’s been found in digs all over Britain. Many of the rocks came from Wales, where a number of Neolithic quarries are located.
These stones are known as lithophones, or rocks that produce notes when struck, and they’ve been used that way in Wales for a long, long time. In fact, one Welsh village called Maenclochog (translated roughly, Stone Bells) even used Bluestones as church bells until the 1700s. According to a team from the Royal Academy of Art’s Landscape and Perception Project, the neolithic worshippers at Stonehenge may have turned to the Welsh to import their own holy rock music.
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