Drought exposes long-submerged 'Spanish Stonehenge' monument.
A 7,000-year-old monument dubbed “Spanish Stonehenge” has been exposed for the first time in 50 years, after drought conditions in western Spain dropped water levels in a manmade lake and revealed the ancient standing stones.
Water levels in the reservoir dropped significantly this summer after two intense heatwaves baked much of Europe. In Spain, June’s hot spell saw seven weather stations record their highest temperatures ever, according to the country’s meteorological agency, with several cities exceeding 104 degrees Fahrenheit . Higher-than-average temperatures and dry conditions were also recorded across Spain in July and August.
A comparison of satellite views from July 24, 2013 and July 25, 2019 show changes to the coastlines around the Valdeca?as Reservoir.“Raising and lowering of the water level is destructive, but it can be revealing too,” said Craig Lee, an environmental archaeologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. “It can sometimes expose sites in remarkable ways.”
Archaeologists think the standing rocks may have been part of an enclosed structure with an enormous stone cap, and was possibly used as a tomb, a site for trade or a space for religious rituals.
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