Stonehenge exhibition explores parallels with Japanese stone circles

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Objects never before seen outside Japan will be part of show on similarities to Jōmon monuments

They were separated by thousands of miles and the two sets of builders could not conceivably have met or swapped notes, but intriguing parallels between

Among the Japanese sites that will be in focus is that of the Ōyu Stone Circles in northern Japan. It does not feature the sort of hulking standing stones that Stonehenge is famous for but rather two large circles made of thousands of river pebbles. Greaney said Jōmon people and their neolithic counterparts in southern Britain shared the same sort of climate, topography and access to natural resources. Both were building stone circles aligned with the movements of the sun and took great care to remember their ancestors. Both peoples produced similar tools and pots and created settlements around important monuments.

 

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