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"The people who live in these areas have known about them for thousands of years," researcher Matthew Dalton told CNN.
Mr Dalton said the funerary avenues, which he had seen from a helicopter, stretched for hundreds, "maybe even thousands of kilometres" and that the same routes were often followed by those travelling along the main roads of today. "And actually, in some cases, the tombs themselves are so dense that you can't help but walk on the ancient route itself, because you're sort of hemmed in by the tombs."Ring tombs involve a cairn surrounded by a wall of up to two meters in height, while pendant tombs have "beautiful tails.
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