Word: guenin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Celtic Druids, they are now known to have been left by a wiry, long-headed people of the late Stone Age who gave way to the metal-wielding Gauls. They buried or cremated their dead and the stones evidently served some ritual or memorial purpose. Last month Professor Andre Guenin, cataloguing Brittany's megaliths, took the trouble to climb a 100-ft. butte ten miles from Carnac, found an unknown group of monuments including an elliptical cromlech and five dolmens, three of them almost perfectly preserved. One immense dolmen consisted of 19 pillars covered by five table stones. Professor...