Scientists have learned how “grow legs” at Stonehenge
Stonehenge — the most famous megalithic structure in Europe. But in fact, this part of the world scattered tens of thousands of similar towers, though not of such impressive size.
A new study shows that these megaliths can be linked and derive from the same culture of the ancient hunters and gatherers. They lived in the North-West of France, in one of the districts of Brittany, almost 7 thousand years ago.
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“Brittany was the source of the European megalithic phenomenon,” says Michael Parker Pearson, an archaeologist and expert on Stonehenge from University College London.
Archaeologist Bettina Schultz-Paulsson of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden sought the ancestral home of the megaliths since then, dug up your first megalithic monument in Portugal almost 20 years ago.
Previously, the majority of anthropologists believed that the megaliths originated in the middle East or in the Mediterranean. Many modern scholars believe that they were invented independently from each other in five or six different regions of Europe.
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According to Schulz Paulsson, the main difficulty was to process massive amounts of archaeological data to obtain accurate Dating for 35 thousand seats, including a hand-carved standing stones, tombs and ancient temples.
“Everybody said you’re crazy, that’s impossible, says Schultz-Paulsson. But I still decided to do it.”