Neolithic Enclosures - New Passage with 7 Questions
Archeology
"Neolithic enclosures have been known in Europe for about 120 years and have fascinated archaeologists and the public alike. These are circular
structures of stone, wood, and earth constructed some 7,000 years ago, raised hills surrounded by a ditch that supported wooden or stone walls, such as the Goseck circle in Germany. Archaeologists have long searched for the origins of this European phenomenon
and sought to investigate its spread and function. Questions still remain about what sort of practices occurred inside and outside these mysterious places and how we can grasp them archaeologically. Even more fundamentally we can ask, why were these places
built and enclosed the way they were?"
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