Science or symbolism

Problems of Archaeo-Astronomy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3390940
AutoresAubrey Burl (autor de correspondencia)
Año1980
Volumen54
Número212
Páginas191-200
Fecha de publicación1980-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00043362
OpenAlexW2200984722
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas3

A convincing case has now been made out for linking [the cursus, avenues, alignments, henges and circles] with a remarkable store of engineering, mathematical and astronomical knowledge' (Burgess, 1974, 195)... it is fantastic to imagine that the ill-clad inhabitants of these boreal isles should shiver night long in rain and gale, peering through the driving mists to note eclipses and planetary movements in our oft-veiled skies' (Childe, 1930, 164).Over the last decade many claims have been made that early prehistoric Britain was the focus of a scientifically learned society whose mathematical, geometrical and astronomical discoveries anticipated those of the Babylonians and Greeks, and some of whose megalithic observatories survive for us to examine

Ancient history · Archaeology · Astronomy · Greeks · History of astronomy · Megalith · Peering · Physics · Prehistory · Classics · Computer Science · Historical and Architectural Studies · Historical Astronomy and Related Studies · History · History and Developments in Astronomy