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Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of Morbihan

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Carnac Stones

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UNESCO's 2025 World Heritage record for the c. 5000–2300 BCE regional system, monument diversity, landscape setting, significance, integrity, and management; it does not settle the function of each alignment.

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Carnac is a Neolithic megalithic landscape of alignments, menhirs, cairns, and funerary monuments whose exact ritual functions remain unresolved.

The monument landscape and Neolithic context are well supported. The specific ritual purpose remains uncertain, and fringe claims overreach the evidence.
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The Carnac rows were deliberately organized within a dense Neolithic monument landscape, but their precise social, ritual, territorial, or cosmological functions are unresolved.

Answer / theory: The rows probably structured ritual movement, visibility, memory, territory, or cosmology, but the exact function is unresolved. What supports it: The density, repetition, and landscape integration show deliberate planning. What is weak or disputed: No surviving Neolithic text explains the alignments. Evidence level: Mixed Evidence
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