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  Preshistoric Astronomy and Ritual British Isles Stonehenge
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Make/Author/Artist: Aubrey Burl
Edition/ Material: 1983
Details: Soft Cover

Quantity in Stock:1

Product Code: PREHAS

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Stonehenge was not an observatory used by druidical astronomer priests. It was instead a monument in which the moon and the sun and the dead were jointed together. IN this book, the author, a well known archaeologist, explains how people in the British Isles four thousand or more years ago, identified life and death with the cycle of the midwinter and midsummer and with the risings and settings of the sun and moon. This is why so many megalithic monuments have astronomical sightlines built into them.

Unfortunately these lines have often been examined by astronomers and engineers who have chosen to accept only the most precise of them, rejecting as accidental the most numerous coarse alignments that are typical of what prehistoric people intended. The book describes how astronomical customs developed in the British Isles. Unlike other works about megalithic astronomy technical explanations about azimuths and declinations are kept to their simplest. The emphasis here is upon people rather than perturbations and eclipses

CONDITION: Soft Cover, 56 pages, 1983. USED with Light wear to cover, and book plate inside front cover. Publisher : Shire Archaeology,

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