NATS 1745 Lecture 2: Astronomy Lecture 2 - Stonehenge (1)
12 May 2017
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Mostly animal images, human figures, and abstract shapes. Clusters of dots which may be star clusters. Sequence of dots may represent phases of moon at different parts of the year: 13 dots mean animal representing spring, 26 dots mean animal representing fall (26 days of lunar cycle) The earliest artifact was found in these caves, the blanchard bone: it was found in one of these caves in 1865, 12,000 to. 20,000 years old: in 1970 alexander marshack published interpretation of markings on bone as representing phases of the moon, presa de la mula (in northern mexico) The notches/lines count days in 7 lunar cycles = 207 days: notches represent phases of the moon. C. 7000 (1st farming societies in greece) to 17000 bce (start of bronze age) Made pottery: newgrange built c. 32000 bce. Older then stonehenge + the egyptian pyramids. One of the largest out of the 3 neolithic tombs.
