Crystal Gammon, LiveScience.com via MSNBC.msn.com
A "Stonehenge" in Sweden? (Steffan Anderson/Getty Images) |
Ancient Scandinavians dragged 59 boulders to a seaside cliff
near what is now the Swedish fishing village of Kaseberga.
They
carefully arranged the massive stones -- each weighing up to 4,000 pounds
(1,800 kg) -- in the outline of a 220-foot-long (67 m) ship
overlooking the Baltic Sea.
Archaeologists generally agree this megalithic structure, known as "Ale's Stones" (Ales Stenar), was assembled about 1,000 years ago, near
the end of the Iron Age, as a burial monument.
England's Stonehenge (thespoof.com) |
"We can now say Stonehenge has a younger sister, but she's so much more beautiful," said Nils-Axel Morner, a retired geologist from Stockholm University who co-authored the paper on the interpretation, published in March in
the International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Other researchers familiar with the site are skeptical. Among other
arguments, they cite the results of carbon dating to reject Morner's
interpretation. More
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