carnac stones造句

• The Carnac stones have aroused particular interest, however, for their near-perfect alignment.
• The cave paintings of Lascaux and Gargas ( Gargas in the Hautes-Pyr閚閑s ) as well as the Carnac stones are remains of the local prehistoric activity.
• The most famous of these are the Carnac stones ( c . 3300 BC, but may date to as old as 4500 BC ) and the stones at Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens.
• Carnac is renowned for the Carnac stones & ndash; one of the most extensive Neolithic menhir collections in the world & ndash; as well as its beaches, which are popular with tourists.
• Alignments of menhirs are common, the most famous being the Carnac stones in Brittany, where more than 3000 individual menhirs are arranged in four groups and arrayed in rows stretching across four kilometres.
• Separated from the well known commune of Carnac in 1864, several of the famous neolithic standing stones in the Carnac stones fall within its boundaries, including the dolmens of Kerdeneven and Kermarquer, and the Petit-M閚ec Alignments.
• The Morbihan " d閜artement ", on the southern coast, comprises a large share of these structures, including the Carnac stones and the Broken Menhir of Er Grah in the Locmariaquer megaliths, the largest single stone erected by Neolithic people.
• At the end of the last glacial period ( 10, 000 BC ), the climate became milder; France has numerous megalithic sites from the Neolithic period, including the exceptionally dense Carnac stones site ( approximately 3, 300 BC ).
• Tombs in the Iberian peninsula have been dated through thermoluminescence to c . 4510 BCE, and some burials at the Carnac stones in Brittany also date back to the fifth millennium BCE . The commemorative value of such burial sites are indicated by the fact that, at some stage, they became elevated, and that the constructs, almost from the earliest, sought to be monumental.
• From studies measuring and analysing the data created at over five hundred megalithic sites, he attempted to classify stone circles into different Oxford, 1967 ), " Megalithic lunar observatories " ( Oxford, 1971 ) and " Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany " ( Oxford, 1978 ), the last written with his son Archie after they carried out a detailed survey of the Carnac stones from 1970 to 1974.