Today we saw the megaliths in Carnac! When I say there were thousands…I literally mean there were THOUSANDS. Everywhere. Once you got to the site, everywhere you looked there were megaliths. Everywhere. They weren't the size of Stonehenge, but probably about 4 ft-7 ft tall (I think…I'm really bad about judging height). They were amazing. It's stuff like this that makes your mind get lost in the past. Wondering why people erected these monuments, who were these people, what was the point of it all, what did it mean to these people? But does figuring all this out have any meaning nowadays? If we can make educated guesses of all those questions…does it even matter? Who cares? Why should we care? What's the point of studying the past? Correcting or helping out the present and future? But how?
After visiting the megaliths we went to 3 particular megalith sites. One is no longer standing, but at one point it would have stood over 18 m high (I think it is higher than this I just can't remember the exact height right now). Folks, this thing is HUGE. Even on its side and broken into 4 pieces, you can still feel the awesomeness it would have evoked for someone seeing it while it was standing. They think an earth quake caused it to break. It's so cool to think about how they would have erected this thing without the use of the wheel. How on earth did they do it?! At this site there are also two (I think this is correct) dolmonds. They are burial chambers basically. A bunch of stones standing up and one large slab of rock on top. Then this structure is covered on the outside by little rocks. It's awesome. They have carvings on all of the rocks. Really captivating.
Leaving Carnac, we headed towards the town on the sea, or Olonne Sur Mer. Here Dr. Hill had gotten in contact with an underwater archaeologist named Andre Allorin. We stayed near him, and he and his friends and family entertained us for the evening/morning. They deserve a post of their own.
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