Info Of Standing Stones Uncovered Well-Nigh Of Import Archaeological Site

This thought of the site shows the alignment of the standing stones that accept been found.

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Six aligned standing stones accept been discovered on a edifice site inwards Sion, southwest Switzerland, inwards what local government telephone outcry upwardly an of import archaeological find.   

“This uncovering is of prime number importance to aid us sympathize social rituals at the terminate of the Neolithic catamenia (around 2,500BC) inwards key Europe,” says a press releaseexternal link from canton Valais’s buildings, monuments together with archæology department.   

The honor was made yesteryear run a hazard during operate for a novel residential edifice inwards the Petit-Chasseur quarter of the cantonal uppercase Sion. This is the same expanse where, inwards the 1960s, several dolmens (collective tombs) together with some thirty standing stones were found.  

Three of the late constitute standing stones are engraved amongst markings. The biggest honor is a rock weighing nigh 2 tonnes bearing a representation of a manful someone figure wearing geometrically patterned wearable together with amongst a sun-like motif but about his face.   

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