Tools
ToolsDarvill, T., 2022. Keeping time at Stonehenge. Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology, 96 (386), 319-335.
Full text available as:
|
PDF (OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE)
keeping-time-at-stonehenge (2).pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. 13MB | |
|
Copyright to original material in this document is with the original owner(s). Access to this content through BURO is granted on condition that you use it only for research, scholarly or other non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact BU via BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk. Any third party copyright material in this document remains the property of its respective owner(s). BU grants no licence for further use of that third party material. |
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2022.5
Abstract
Advances in understanding the phasing of Stonehenge highlight the integrity of the sarsen structures. Here it is suggested that the numerology of the sarsen elements materialize a perpetual calendar based on a tropical solar year of 365.25 days, starting at the winter solstice. The indigenous development of such a calendar in north-west Europe is possible, but a source in the eastern Mediterranean is also considered. The adoption of a solar calendar, perhaps a replacement for an earlier lunar calendar, was associated with the spread of solar cosmologies during the third millennium BC and was used to regularize festivals and ceremonies.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 0003-598X |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Stonehenge; Britain; Wessex; solar calendar; time-reckoning |
| Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
| ID Code: | 36703 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
| Deposited On: | 07 Mar 2022 10:43 |
| Last Modified: | 23 May 2022 13:43 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
| Repository Staff Only - |