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Megalithic monument
A 5,500 - year - honest-to-god tomb possibly belonging to a Stone Age chieftain has been unearth at a megalithic monument in the shape of a ship call the Ale ’s Stenar ( Ale ’s Stones ) . The tomb was likely surcharge of stones to work up the nearby Viking - epoch ship monument . Here , archaeologists Björn Wallebom and Bengt Söderberg are just come out the dig on Oct. 12 , 2012 , with the Ale ’s stones in the background .
Help from technology
In 2006 , archaeologists used charismatic sensors and radar to map the area ’s underground terrain and found a larger circular bodily structure about 541 feet ( 165 m ) across . And only of late , in October 2012 , did scientists actually lead off to stab there . Here , archaeologists turn over oceanic abyss in the foreground , Ale ’s stones in the background .
Evidence of history
The team unearthed the imprints of gargantuan Boulder that had been removed long ago . Though they did n’t bump a skeleton , the imprints suggested the site was a Neolithic burial chamber called a dolmen — several upright stones with a horizontal bowlder on top . Here , archaeologist Björn Wallebom reset the northern brim of the dolmen on Oct. 14 , 2012 .
Time to work
Archaeologists Bengt Söderberg and Magnus Andersson clearing the northern brims of the dolmen on Oct. 14 .
Giant Ship
Ale ’s Stones are roost on a seaboard cliff in the village of Kåseberga and consist of 59 massive boulders arrange in the 220 - foot ( 67 - meter)-long outline of a ship .
Astronomical Calendar?
archaeologist loosely hold Ale ’s Stones was build some 1,000 years ago as a sepulture monument . But a team of researchers , in the March 2012 issue of the International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics , argues the megalithic anatomical structure is really 2,500 years old , date from the Norse Bronze Age ; they suggest it was built as an galactic calendar with the same underlying geometry as England ’s Stonehenge .
Building a Megalith
scientist think members of a warlike community of seafarers build Ale ’s Stones using ox , slaves , R-2 , sleds , wooden spades and simple steel tools to pick up and lift the huge boulders .
