Posted on 05/02/2023 5:12:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The may have been related to fishing, either the mechanics of it, or as a fishing rights marker for the various fishermen (or fisherpeople, for the woke readers out there).
I forget (I’ve been reading a lot the past couple of days) but these probably got attributed to a “ceremonial purpose”. Archaeologists of the distant future will have the same impression when they find lawn dwarfs and flamingos near the ruins of a house.
The dating was made possible by the wood recovered from under one of the cairns.
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