Ancient Ritual Prevents Climate Change
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An ancient volcano blotted out the sun, killing crops. People likely reacted by making
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Ice cores from Greenland 's ice sheets show a volcanic eruption 2,900 years ago .
Ice cores show that a major volcanic eruption on the island of Bornholm caused the stones to be deposited in a causewayed enclosure.
The stones would have been created as part of a religious or other supernatural ritual to address the weather changes.
Sørensen compared reactions to climate changes to humanity’s own climate changes today .
Neolithic people didn’t know why the sun was shrouded so they tried to handle the situation by communal efforts to bring back the sun.
The latter are primarily caused by human activity such as the use of fossil fuels.
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