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濒临大西洋的卡纳克是位于法国布列塔尼半岛一个神秘的小镇。它的郊外散布着一片片整齐排列的石阵，在长达8千米的范围内到处是林立的巨石，这就是著名的卡纳克石阵，被英国考古学家海丁翰教授称为“比金字塔更神秘”的石柱群。 Reminiscent of Stonehenge[1], upright stones dot the French landscape of the area we know as ancient Brittany. Surrounding the tiny village of Carnac, France, they became known as the Carnac stones. More than 3,000 stones, standing in defined rows, obviously are not the product of natural phenomena. In fact, scientists have determined that they were cut from rock found in the area and erected[2] by humans between 4,500 and 2,000 B.C. In recent centuries, many of the sites have been neglected[3], with reports of the stones being used as sheep shelters, chicken sheds or even ovens. Even more commonly, stones have been removed to make way for roads, or as building materials. The continuing management of the sites remains a controversial topic. Major archaeological[4] interest in the stone rows only happened in the latter half of the 20th century. These archaeologists originally believed that rather than a series of stone rows, there was in origin just one major stone row, covering a distance of more than eight kilometres. Soon, research revealed that this “single stone row” theory did not hold water[5]; it seemed that there were mainly three stone rows, each containing approximately 1,000 stones. | 
