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The megaliths rise
Stone chambers and stone rows along the whole Atlantic coast
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The megaliths follow the coast so closely that the spread was probably by sea rather than overland. The chambers were used for generations and often hold hundreds of people together without ranking — shared ancestors rather than princes. Many are oriented on solstices or the moon's extremes, which requires systematic observation over decades. Stonehenge is the most famous but far from the oldest.
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From Portugal to Scandinavia people began raising enormous stones — burial chambers, rows and circles. They had neither wheel, metal nor writing. Some of these structures are older than the pyramids of Egypt.
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