Talk:Carnac

how many stones
this article claims more than 10,000 while your own entry on the stones cites more than 3,000!~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.145.94.21 (talk) 15:32, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

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The Purpose of the Megaliths in Carnac. In the case of Carnac, the purpose of the Megaliths could have been to be permanent shields against arrows and lances, for an army withdrawn to its final quarters of defense in face of an invasion by enemies. Traditionally scientists have not explained the purpose of the so called Menhirs, but with some idle ideas such as religious explanations, which lack rational conviction, or practical convincing. The investigator should imagine circumstances in the Bretagne four thousand years ago. This place of Carnac in the Bretagne occupied an excellent location near the sea, in a peninsula, rather well secured from enemies from the European continent. Its scarce population of some thousands needed national defense against marauding parties of assailants and belligerent bands of invaders, who would want to steal by force cattle and other useful property. Even women and children could then be abducted and enslaved. If the enemy would appear with an army, a battle would have been fought to the death, and so there was little else as a defensive burg, than an artificial mount or Tumulus or a formation of megaliths behind which the defenders would hide, to face the attack from a vantage position. The weapons of the age were axes, lances and bows and arrows, all used also for the hunt. Instead of a castle, the defenders of the town or city of Carnac used the huge stones previously planted for the purpose, as impregnable shields, from which they would exercise their counter attacks. A rain of arrows would have little effect against their stone age formation, behind the Menhirs or megaliths. The defenders of Carnac would have provoked and induced battle into this stone formation of three thousand or more megaliths. This strategy is similar to those occasions when a commander chooses an advantageous battle ground, in history. The enormous effort to erect megaliths is only explicable, if it offers protection in times of war. Signed by Santiago Sevilla Historian.2800:370:9F:D300:6D74:C2D6:B1DF:2805 (talk) 18:54, 21 November 2017 (UTC)