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Andy B
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|  New Message Posted!2012-02-18 22:06
I hadn't seen that - happy to reflect the conventional view, by all means tidy it up, thanks David.
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davidmorgan
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| New Message Posted!2012-02-18 21:47
I think we need slightly more balanced information (or at least both sides of the story) on our site page for this.
We appear to be going along with radio-astronomer Professor Paris Herouni's questionable dating based on:
"that it was aligned to Deneb at a date of around 5,500 BC, suggesting that this was the time frame in which Carahunge was in use by an advanced society of astronomer priests. It was this alignment that provided the key to finally dating the site, which was expected to have been constructed during this distant epoch."
Whereas the archaeologists from the University of Munich say:
"in contrast to the opinion that Zorakarer may be called an Armenian Stonehenge", Zorats Karer "was mainly a necropolis from the Middle Bronze Age to the Iron Age."
The Munich archaeologists add that it may have served "as a place of refuge in times of war", possibly in the Hellenistic - Roman period (c. 300 BC - 300 AD). A wall of rocks and compacted soil (loam) was built around the site with vertical rocks plugged into it for reinforcement: today only these upright rocks remain.
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