{"id":10679,"date":"2019-06-27T15:52:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10679"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:52:35","slug":"megalith-culture-spread-by-seafarers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10679","title":{"rendered":"Megalith Culture Spread by Seafarers?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ancient

Carnac megalithic monument<\/p><\/div>\n

From Science, “<\/em>Stonehenge, Other Ancient Rock Structures May Trace Their origins to Monuments like This<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Stonehenge may be the most famous example, but tens of thousands of other ancient sites featuring massive, curiously arranged rocks dot Europe. A new study suggests these megaliths weren\u2019t created independently but instead can be traced back to a single hunter-gatherer culture that started nearly 7000 years ago in what is today the Brittany region of northwestern France. The findings also indicate societies at the time were better boaters than typically believed, spreading their culture by sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The seafaring part is interesting. Since those people evidently did not do boat burials (on land), we have no idea what kind of vessels they had, but they had something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Science, “Stonehenge, Other Ancient Rock Structures May Trace Their origins to Monuments like This” Stonehenge may be the most famous example, but tens of thousands of other ancient sites featuring massive, curiously arranged rocks dot Europe. A new study suggests these megaliths weren\u2019t created independently but instead can be traced back to a single […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,88,107,242],"class_list":["post-10679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-britain","tag-france","tag-neolithic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2Mf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":896,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=896","url_meta":{"origin":10679,"position":0},"title":"The Sun High in The Sky","author":"Chas S. 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It is the abstract of a paper he published last year in the journal Mortality, titled \"Endo-cannibalism in the making of a recent British ancestor.\" (Volume 9, No. 3,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":34,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=34","url_meta":{"origin":10679,"position":2},"title":"Solstice at the Stones","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 30, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Archaeology magazine got around to noting the contemporary Pagan use of Stonehenge and Avebury circles. The link will give you an abstract of the article; the full version is print-only.","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12132,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12132","url_meta":{"origin":10679,"position":3},"title":"Ancient Idol Is Older than They Thought","author":"Chas S. 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