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4 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Over 3,000 standing stones in three major alignments (Ménec, Kermario, Kerlescan) extending 4 km, plus dolmens and tumuli. Earliest European megalithic region (Antiquity 2025).
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Eastern Carnac alignment: 555 stones in 13 rows (880 m) ending in semicircular cromlech and 6.5 m Manio giant.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic (c.4500–3000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic/Chasséen-derived Atlantic)
Ménec (Early–Middle Neolithic c.4500–3000 BCE) is the westernmost and largest Carnac alignment: 11 parallel rows 1,167 m long with 1,099 menhirs descending from a western cromlech (egg-shaped 100 ×…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Largest Carnac alignment — 982 menhirs in 10 rows (1,120 m) between Ménec and Kerlescan with Kermario dolmen inside.
