Volcanic eruption may have buried stones

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Stone Age people made sun stone 'sacrifice' to banish 'darkened sun' after a volcanic eruption, archaeologists say

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A volcanic eruption in 2910 B.C. may be the reason Neolithic people on a small island in the Baltic Sea buried hundreds of stones decorated with plant and sun imagery.

The objects were found scattered throughout a palisade ditch on the Danish island of Bornholm .

Neolithic societies across Europe relied on the sun for their harvest.

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