Editing Carnac (section)

==Standing stones==
[[File:4730.1099 Menhire,bis zu 4 Meter hoch,von Ost nach West in 1167 Meter Langen Alignements(Steinreihen) in einem Halbkreis endend Le Ménec, Carnac ,Departement Morbihan ,Bretagne Steffen Heilfort.JPG|left|thumb|200px|Stones in the Menec alignment]]
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Carnac is famous as the site of more than 10,000 Neolithic [[standing stone]]s, also known as menhirs. The stones were hewn from local [[Rock (geology)|rock]] and erected by the [[pre-Celtic]] people of [[Brittany]]. Local tradition claims that the reason they stand in such perfectly straight lines is that they are a [[Roman legion]] turned to stone by [[Pope Cornelius]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.phenomenalplaces.com/index.php/places/carnac-standing-stones |title=Phenomenal Places, Brittany}}</ref>

The Carnac stones were erected during the [[Neolithic]] period which lasted from around 4500 BC until 2000 BC. The precise date of the stones is difficult to ascertain as little dateable material has been found beneath them, but the site's main phase of activity is commonly attributed to c. 3300 BC. One interpretation of the site is that successive generations visited the site to erect a stone in honour of their ancestors. A recent suggestion, proposed by Santiago Sevilla, posits that the megaliths were set as protecting shields for an army of defenders of Carnac as a pre-erected burg against attacking enemies.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sevilla |first1=Santiago |title=Paleolithic Studies: Stonehenge & Carnac |date=November 2017 |publisher=Amazon}}</ref>