Anthropology

that encompass several square kilometers. It's more like a galaxy of stones than a constellation of them. It also looks as if these dozens were a smaller "out of the way" grouping. The developer may or may not have known what they were doing when they removed them. I can see how it could have happened accidentally, though it's sad regardless. There's enough documentation that they could be replaced (sort of)... if they can be found.



Edited to add from article in OP:

"'The Chemin de Montauban site included two intersecting rows of small granite stelae, each spreading out over fifty meters in length. One had been exactly in its original place for 7,000 years,' Obeltz wrote in a blog post.

'The small menhirs of the Chemin de Montauban were undoubtedly one of the oldest sets of stelae in the town of Carnac' believed to date between 5480 and 5320 BC, 'the highest dating obtained for a menhir in the west of France'."