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Posted on 07/09/2025 10:46:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The southern coast of the French region of Brittany is home to one of Europe's highest concentrations of mysterious megalithic standing stones. More than 10,000 are strewn around a six-mile stretch in the Carnac region, from La Trinité-sur-Mer to Erdeven. Unlike other megalithic monuments, such as Stonehenge, these do not typically form a circle, but are linear or curvilinear in nature. In the past, it has been difficult for archaeologists to accurately ascertain their age. According to a statement released by the University of Gothenburg, new research suggests that that not only are they even older than expected, but they might be the first such stone alignments ever built. A French-Swedish collaboration recently carried out excavations at the new site of Le Plasker in Plouharnel, on the Bay of Morbihan. They uncovered a series of fire-related pits that were associated with the construction of the stone monument. Radiocarbon dating of charcoal samples indicated that the megaliths were erected between 4600 and 4300 b.c. "The alignments in the Carnac region now appear to be among the earliest megalithic monuments in Europe," said archaeologist Bettina Schulz Paulsson of the University of Gothenburg. "We have also confirmed the Bay of Morbihan as the earliest megalithic region in Europe." Read the original scholarly article about this research in Antiquity. To read about another megalithic site in central France, go to "Megalithic Mystery."
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Carnac stones, Brittany, FranceBettina Schulz Paulsson
I used to be an archaeologist, but gambling debts left my career in ruins
TWEEEEEEET!
Biblical timeline violation.
(Very close call this time, though, SC.)
😁
LOL! Seriously though those are actually stone signals to the aleins in their UFOs.
It’s true. That guy on tv with the funny hair said so!
Agree. They date back to the Helen Thomas Age and may explain where Elvis went.
Y’all got to wonder why?
A man spends his whole day
trying to feed himself and his family,
And then spends his “Spare” time digging up rocks and aligning them with stars?
Ancient men were just a smart as we are. They may not have the depth of knowledge we are accustomed to, but they weren’t stupid.
I’ll pick on stone hedge. Why spend al that effort and for what purpose?
Y’all didn’t even leave a clue as to why you did it!
Just tells me my ancestors ate better and had more free time on their hands than modern Liberal run schools will admit to.
Thanks ‘civ. Fascinating.
Well there goes the “Roman soldier turned to stone” theory.
these do not typically form a circle, but are linear or curvilinear in nature.
So before anyone knew what a circle was?
LOL!
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[[Why spend al that effort and for what purpose?]]
For seriously deluded “religious reasons”- they likely worshipped the stars, and ordered thei4 lives around the stars
And ten thousand of their friends to help haul one of these puppies away ...
Rellic, do read Jared Diamonds Guns, Germs and Steel.
Basically, a study was done on the amount of time spent per day by KhoiSan hunter gatherers. These live in the Botswana desert so not easy to find food. But even then they worked only a couple of hours a day.
So hunter gatherers who lived in climates like 3000 BC Eurasia would find food pretty easily. So they would have a lot of free time
Most of the facts in this article were in the headlines. I would have enjoyedseeing a gallery of photos with explanations and descriptions. I’m not griping, just wishing.
Thanks again, SunkenCiv.
Before best lawn on the block biggest rock was the trend.
The time you spent griping you could have been spent using a search engine looking for such pics.
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