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Posted on 08/06/2019 8:38:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Six aligned standing stones have been discovered on a building site in Sion, southwest Switzerland, in what local authorities call an important archaeological find.
"This discovery is of prime importance to help us understand social rituals at the end of the Neolithic period (around 2,500BC) in central Europe," says a press releaseexternal link from canton Valais's buildings, monuments and archaeology department.
The find was made by chance during work for a new residential building in the Petit-Chasseur quarter of the cantonal capital Sion. This is the same area where, in the 1960s, several dolmens (collective tombs) and some 30 standing stones were found.
According to the press release, some of the stones were observed to have been deliberately broken, raising the question as to whether parts of them were used to construct dolmens previously found in the same area. The question remains open, the authors say, but this find will "allow us to revisit or to complete the puzzle opened in 1961 when a dolmen was found [...] some 400 metres from the current finds".
(Excerpt) Read more at swissinfo.ch ...
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I have read that parts of some MASSIVE boulders and other massive stones were broken up to build towns nearby after some time.
I don’t understand what good is hunk of the builder going to do?
You can’t shape it or mold it anymore
Standing Stones?.........Keith Richards?..........
I’m watching all the Time Team episodes on Youtube ,boy they dig a ton of holes
The inscription said moved the meeting to Davos.
One can only shudder at the patriarchial lexicon.
Where are the Dolwomyn?
Why are the Dolmen always erect???
Oh, the horror!
:^)
And they've only got three days to do it. ;^)
"Glad to be here, glad to be anywhere." -- Keith Richards
It’s already quarried, so it’s just a matter of hauling it to the building site, or breaking it first then hauling the pieces. Much of the Roman-era statuary got rendered into lime for mortar, consumed during the Middle Ages. The workshop of one of these Venus-****ers turned up in a dig, and around the kiln were a bunch of statues and parts of statues that he never finished destroying.
http://www.google.com/search?q=bend+me+shape+me
LOL! Although, in historical times (even into the 20th c) such pillars were considered helpful for women who were having difficulty getting preggers.
WTF??!?! LOL!!
I thought I was going to some scientific slash historic website that was going to explain in detail how the pieces were reused.
Instead I get a song :)
A GOOD song though
And the poor home builder went?????
More of a Leaning Stone at this point.
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