during his survey, and it was not considered accurate. An archaeoastronomy debate was triggered by the 1963 publication of Stonehenge Decoded, by Gerald...
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Neolithic henge and timber circle monument near Stonehenge About Stonehenge and replicas of Stonehenge Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge – Stonehenge's use in tracking...
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these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures". Clive Ruggles argues it is misleading to consider archaeoastronomy to be the study of...
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animal grazing. Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge Excavations at Stonehenge Theories about Stonehenge Cultural depictions of Stonehenge Stonehenge road tunnel...
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Gerald Hawkins (section Stonehenge Decoded (1965))
a British-born American astronomer and author noted for his work in the field of archaeoastronomy. A professor and chair of the astronomy department at...
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Alexander Thom (category Scottish scholars and academics)
Gerald Hawkins' new interpretation of Stonehenge as an astronomical 'computer' (see Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge), Thom's theories were adopted by numerous...
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the oldest stone circle, and attracted visitors for centuries after its abandonment. Stonehenge Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge Battle of the Beanfield...
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Nebra sky disc (category Archaeoastronomy)
(2015), "Nebra Disk", in Ruggles, Clive L. N. (ed.), Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, New York: Springer Science+Business Media, pp. 1349–1356...
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Carhenge (category Replicas and derivatives of Stonehenge)
occur 30 years later. Cadillac Ranch Spindle Stonehenge replicas and derivatives "Archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge". arthistoryresources.net. "Carhenge history"...
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of the Middle East, Asia and the Americas, are aligned with the sunrise or sunset on the summer solstice (see archaeoastronomy). The significance of the...
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Thornborough Henges (category Buildings and structures completed in the 4th millennium BC)
Salisbury Plain and date from between 3500 and 2500 BC. The monument complex has been called 'The Stonehenge of the North'. Historic England considers...
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of embracing the more tenuous claims of archaeoastronomy. In Prehistoric Avebury Burl proposed that Circles and Henge monuments, far from being astronomical...
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an English author who writes on archaeoastronomy, mostly focusing on the megalithic sites of Avebury, Stonehenge and the Drombeg stone circle in Cork...
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List of archaeoastronomical sites by country (category Archaeoastronomy)
claims for the use of archaeoastronomy have been made, sorted by country. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International...
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Medicine wheel (section Locality, siting and proxemics)
artifact types. Like Stonehenge, it had been built up by successive generations who would add new features to the circle. Due to that and its long period of...
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Aubrey holes (category Stonehenge)
pits at Stonehenge, named after seventeenth-century antiquarian John Aubrey. They date to the earliest phases of Stonehenge in the late fourth and early...
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Stone circle (category CS1 maint: date and year)
Avebury, the Rollright Stones, Castlerigg, and elements within the ring of standing stones at Stonehenge. Scattered examples exist from other parts of...
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List of prehistoric structures in Great Britain (category Lists of buildings and structures in the United Kingdom)
and Iron Age. Among the most important are the Wiltshire sites around Stonehenge and Avebury, which are designated as a World Heritage Site. Bathampton Down...
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Carahunge (category Buildings and structures in Syunik Province)
"Armenian Stonehenge". The Carahunge site is at latitude 39° 34' longitude 46° 01' on a mountain plateau at an altitude of 1,770 metres (5,810 ft) and occupies...
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Norman Lockyer (section Honours and awards)
example in 1870 to Sicily, 1871 to India and 1898 to India. Lockyer is among the pioneers of archaeoastronomy. Travelling 1890 in Greece he noticed the...
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Archaeoacoustics (section Stonehenge)
rock art and sound. In 1999, Aaron Watson undertook work on the acoustics of numerous archaeological sites, including that of Stonehenge, and investigated...
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Henge (category Types of monuments and memorials)
Durrington Walls and Mount Pleasant Henge)". The word henge is a backformation from Stonehenge, the famous monument in Wiltshire. Stonehenge is not a true...
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Ed Krupp (section Archaeoastronomy)
astronomer, researcher, author, and popularizer of science. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of archaeoastronomy, the study of how ancient...
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Causewayed enclosure (category Types of monuments and memorials)
popular. All this long preceded the earliest henge monuments, including Stonehenge I. Examples of causewayed enclosures include: Barkhale Camp, West Sussex...
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Megalithic architectural elements (category Stonehenge)
include the walls of chamber tombs and other megalithic monuments, and the vertical elements of the trilithons at Stonehenge. Especially later, orthostats...
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Star Axis (section Description and concept)
monuments of archaeoastronomy such as the Great Pyramids, Stonehenge, El Caracol, Chichen Itza and the 15th-century Ulugh Beg Observatory. Curator and writer...
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a solar alignment of this nature and this alignment might be a matter of chance. He considered that archaeoastronomy should be regarded as an aspect of...
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11,000–17,000 years old based on comparisons to geological eras and archaeoastronomy. Beginning in the 1970s, Carlos Ponce Sanginés proposed the site...
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Parque Arqueológico do Solstício (redirect from Brazilian Stonehenge)
contains a megalithic stone circle, colloquially known as the Amazon Stonehenge, consisting of 127 blocks of granite, each up to 4 meters tall, standing...
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inhumation. With the revised Stonehenge chronology, this is after the Sarsen Circle and trilithons were erected at Stonehenge. Several regions of origin...
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