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Roman Amphitheatre of Uthina

Roman Amphitheatre of Uthina The Roman Amphitheatre of Uthina is located in Uthina , near Tunis, Tunisia .  Building for Uthina began in 40 BC and continued through to 135 AD. The amphitheatre may have been a later addition to what was already a large town.  Also located there were a fortress, cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal arch, a theatre, and a basilica with a circular crypt . Coordinates 36.608598,10.169214 Description The amphitheatre, partly buried, measures 113 by 90 meters. The arena measures 58 by 35 metres, giving surface areas of 7988 and 1539 square metres respectively.  There are four entrances, two main entrances at each end, with the seating area supported by three tiers of columns and arches. (Although these are no longer there, measurements and amphitheater descriptions rely on a complete building.) Measurements for the amphitheatre on site are 12 0 by 89 metres, with the arena measuring 67 by 36 metres. The surface areas measure 10680 an d 24...
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Carnac Stones

Carnac Stones

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The Carnac Stones or Alignements de Carnac in Bretagne, France, were built by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany.
There are 3000 stones of local granite, and the sites date to 4500/3300 bc.

There are a number of monuments built in this area about this time, and they are the Kermario alignments with 1029 stones, the Kerlescan alignments with 550 stones, and the Ménec alignments with 1050 stones.


One possible reason for the build is an alignment with glacial movement. This is partly because the rows vary slightly from each other and the Gravinis site, which is suggested to date to 4655 bc. The site of Gravinis has an eleven metres capstone, and the site at maximum tilt was about 11 metres above sea. Other sites in western France from a later date pertain to connect with Gravinis and Carnac by their builds at an altitude of 11 metres. Some have also been altered to be 19 metres above sea level.


Stones
The stones have been quarried and erected in lines. They vary in angle between the left and right sides.

The angles are as follows:

Left 
19°,19°,21°,21°,21°,20°,20°,20°,19°,18°

Right
21°,19°,20°,17°,17°,16°,18°,17°,16°,17°

If the two sides depict glacial melt, they then suggest an increased melt from the left side as the build progresses before slowing and increasing on the right side.



Conclusion 
As a depiction of glacial melt, it is difficult to confirm as the ice has long ago melted. A yearly melt would seem quite extreme, and then it might depict every ten years giving a total of sixty years.

Why these people felt they needed to follow it is unknown, also even in the 21st century this area of land is above sea level.
What someone might expect after would be a melt rate depicted in either stone height, number, or as saros patterns. It is unclear if these exist.

Another possibility would be a stone erected per event. This could be the death of a person or marking a year or a seasonal tracker. In the latter, the stones could depict a harvest yield.




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