\b0 In order to worship their gods and honor their dead, the inhabitants of Brittany in the Neolithic p
eriod raised numerous stone monuments: \i menhirs\i0 (standing stones), \i dolmens\i0 (stone tables), \i cairns\i0 (heaps of stones and earth), and \i cromleches\i0 (circles of standing stones). Brittany has a larger number of these megalithic remain
s than any other region in Europe. The finest group of all is to be found at Carnac in the Morbihan, where hundreds of\i menhirs\i0 stand in a great parade that has been frozen for eternity. The alignments of the Menec, which are the most important, ar
e made up of over 1200 \i menhirs\i0 set in eleven parallel rows. At Kermario there are around 1000 of them, laid out in a different orientation, while there are another 600 at Kerlescan. A few kilometers away, at Locmariaquer, three pieces of the large
st \i menhir\i0 known to us lie on the ground: it was over 20 meters (65 feet) high and weighed 350 metric tons (386 short tons)!\par
