Carnac Megaliths Unveil Europe's Earliest Monuments and Mysteries

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Source: Archaeology News Online Magazine
Carnac Megaliths Unveil Europe's Earliest Monuments and Mysteries
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A recent study dating the Carnac stone alignments in Brittany, France, to around 4600 BCE reveals it as Europe's oldest megalithic site, predating other famous monuments and suggesting a complex, possibly ritualistic, landscape with early funerary architecture and communal fire features.

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