ANTH 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, Megalith, Stonehenge Free Festival
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Europe is still in neolithic society at this time. Megaliths: large stone monuments: 5000 bce appear along the atlantic and mediterrian coasts of central and. Last tor 3000 + years until ca 2000 bce: most dated by 14c analysis of associated artifacts. Radiocarbon dates and bayesian modeling support maritime diffusion model for megaliths in europe (two competing hypotheses for the origin of megaliths in europe). disconnected points are now connected. While the phenomenon of megaliths is european, similar stone monuments are found in. We don"t know. since there is no logical explanation, it must be ritual or cult ; engrained in. European culture: alignment- put in lines, 2 or 3 stones or miles long. Dolmen at least 2 upright stones and supporting horizontal cup stone: this is the only structure that had a role, henge - is a circular ditch surrounded by a bank. 68 ft tall (21m) also 280 tons (4000 bce) carnae, brittany, france.
