What Do Stonehenge and Japanese Stone Circles Have in Common?

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4. Human beings have done other things separately, without

being in contact with each other.

Writing was independently developed in Egypt, China, and in North America before any of those people had contact.

The Babylonians, Asian Indians, and Mayans all developed zero as a placeholder independently.

The human mind's capabilities are the same the world over, so it's possible for people in different parts of the world, having no contact, will come up with similarities of thought and construct similar things for similar purposes.

But, if the British and Japanese stone monuments actually did have a common source (which I do not think they did), it could have come from location between the two distant lands. Somewhere near the Caspian or Black Seas, for example, with some people going east and some going west, carrying the concept with them. I doubt very much that it happened that way, though.

Just a case of "great minds thinking alike."