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Multi-Method Geophysical Surveys Between and Around the Kerlescan and the Manio Megalithic Alignments in Carnac (Morbihan, France)

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Carnac Stones

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Current peer-reviewed geophysical field study addressing buried features and research gaps around Kerlescan and Manio; demonstrates that subsurface survey can refine the landscape without decoding a single ritual purpose.

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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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