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Stonehenge's Continental Cousin
- jccooper 6y agoGround plan and more here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ring-sanctuary-of-pommelte-germany-a-monumental-multilayered-metaphor-of-the-late-third-millennium-bc/583BE3828E1DB4B638F6E34F96B18125 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ri... At bottom you can see some rectangular structures of three rows of post holes identified as "longhouses", a commonly-identified neolithic building technique. Given the "ring" is also three rows of posts about 5m apart (with the two inner rings having nearly the same feature count and the outer ring having close to twice the features), it makes me suspicious that this structure (and the many others like it in Britain and northern Europe) was also a building, a (monumental) annular longhouse. Whether shrine, palace, fort, or some combination, a building makes a lot more sense than a bunch of freestanding posts.
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- Zickzack 6y agoThe text says: "They also added some imaginative embellishments". For me, these embellishments spell 'we hope for more tourists than the other sites'. For the other sites, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_circular_enclosures_in_Central_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_circular_enclosures_...