We know that many such sites actually exist in England, and they date back to the same prehistoric eras.

Conclusion

It would be exciting if some artifact were uncovered that lent itself to an exact understanding of why Stonehenge was created, and why it was important to maintain it and preserve it for the descendants of the people who lived in the time the original structure was built, or even II and III.

We thus have the paradoxical situation that archaeology, the only method of investigating man's past in the absence of written records, becomes increasingly less effective as a means of inquiry the more nearly it approaches those aspects of human life which are the more specifically human. It is a perfect case of the higher, the fewer (Atkinson and Hamilton, p. 167)."

In summary, what we know is that Stonehenge was not built to enhance the landscape, it...
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