A thousand years older than Stonehenge: Archaeologists explore a Czech sanctuary
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What happened
6,500 years ago , people built an almost circular enclosure at the site of present-day Chleby, measuring 230 meters in diameter. It featured a ditch more than 2.5 meters deep and twelve irregularly spaced entrances . " Circular enclosures are completely unknown in our region for this period, which already makes the site exceptional. But when we began to analyze the positioning of the entrances in detail, it became c…
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