Both societies built enormous earthworks. Ditches. Mounds. Roads. One society added enormous stones, the other didn't. The trouble is: one lived long ago in Great Britain. The other about two thousand years ago....in the United States. One (probably stupid) idea is that the British floated across the ocean and set up in the US. But they lost the big stone structures in the process. I look at the British works. I look at the US works. They look very much the same!
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Those parallels will exist between most ancient cultures. It doesn't mean they had contact or are related to each other. In the settlement of the New World, many people believed similar things. It's called the myth of the mound builder. The mounds were not attributed to the natives, and this myth was used as justification for removal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mound_builder_%28people%29#Alternative_explanations Henges are not uncommon in North America, but they are usually made of wood and not stone. The woodhenge at Cahokia is a good example.
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Not very likely to be a connection. For one thing, British monuments are 2-3000 years older than the US ones. By the time the US ones were made, they had stopped building them in Britain by 1000 years,and they were almost as mysterious to the population of the time as they are to us today. Also,if the US monuments were built by ancient Brits from abroad you'd expect to find caucasian skeletons.Now some native tribes do carry a mtdna X2 which is considered European...but it's not very common in western Europe.
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