5,000-year-old wooden monument near Stonehenge shows early solstice alignment predating the stone circle

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Archaeologists have discovered traces of a 5,000-year-old wooden monument located 5 kilometers from Stonehenge that was built to mark the summer solstice. This wooden structure predates Stonehenge by about 500 years and represents one of the earliest known examples of a monument aligned to an astronomical phenomenon in the British Isles. The discovery provides the first concrete proof that Stone Age peoples in Britain were capable of tracking and capturing the movement of the sun.

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