Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics and more. She covers several science topics from planet Earth to paleontology and archaeology to health and culture. Prior to freelancing, Jennifer held an Editor role at Time Inc.
Lasers have revealed hundreds of previously undetected prehistoric monuments, including five rare ones, clustered in a swath of farmland in the Irish countryside.
Despite years of agricultural plowing that had damaged some of the monuments, lidar revealed three-dimensional models of the landscape peppered with structures, including several"rare" cursus monuments, which are long, narrow, large-scale earthwork enclosures that may have had a ritual purpose. The grouping is considered the largest cursus cluster in both Ireland and Britain, according to a statement.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.While most of the five range in size between 492 and 656 feet long, the largest stretches roughly 1,312 feet long, according to the study. Archaeologists think that the monuments may have served several purposes, including an association with"major solar events," farming and"pathways for the dead," according to the statement.
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