Dig links Stonehenge to circle of life

To dig or not to dig.

The Stonehenge Riverside Project> exploring the Neolithic landscape of Stonehenge

Mike Parker Pearson1, Joshua Pollard2, Colin Richards3, Julian Thomas3, Chris Tilley4 and Kate Welham5 1 Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield< 2 Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol, [email protected]< 3 School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester< 4 Department of Anthropology, University College London< 5 School of Co...

The Circle of Life

Astronomy and Stonehenge

THE PORTRAYAL OF STONEHENGE in the 1960s and 1970s as an astronomical observatory or computer forms one of the most notorious examples known to archaeologists of an age recreating the past in its own image (Hawkes 1966; Castleden 1993, 18-27; Chippindale 1994, 230-1). Despite persistent popular belief, detailed reassessments of the ideas of C.A. Newham, Gerald Hawkins, Fred Hoyle and others hav...

Stonehenge an Observatory ?

In 1965, researchers found that the direction formed by two stones from Stonehenge, a mysterious ancient structure, pointed exactly to the direction of sunrise at solstice. Several similar coincidences were discovered, which lead many people to believe that Stonehenge was an ancient observatory. In this paper, we analyze this problem from a geometric viewpoint and show that similar coincidences...