Lionel Duke Sims
Biographic Data
| ID | 194241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lionel Duke Sims |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lionel Duke |
| FAMILY NAME | Sims |
| SIGNATURE | SIMS L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9855-7776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Returning from the Underworld: The West Kennet Palisades in the Avebury Monument Complex
In recent decades some archaeologists have come to doubt key components and properties of the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (EBA) Avebury monument complex. By site excavation of the Beckhampton Avenue, Silbury Hill, and the West Kennet Palisades the idea of an integrated group of contemporaneous monuments has been thrown into doubt. In this paper these critiques are themselves critiqued and further tested by an inter-disciplinary exercise integ…
Through the Dark Vale: Interpreting the Stonehenge Palisade through Interdisciplinary Convergence
The Stonehenge Palisade was a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age 2 km linear timberfence that ran alongside Stonehenge and its final Avenue approach. Within its middle section wasa 300–400 m gap. Four archaeology models of the Palisade, all of which include horizon viewing,are evaluated and revised against the presently known properties of this structure, and elementsof each retained after critique are integrated into an emergent interdisciplinary m…
Bootstrapping our Breakout
Bootstrapping our Breakout
A Commentary on L. V. Morrison, “On the Analysis of Megalithic Lunar Sightlines in Scotland”, Archaeoastronomy, Supplement of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1980, 2: 65–77
A Commentary on L. V. Morrison, "On the Analysis of Megalithic Lunar Sightlines in Scotland", Archaeoastronomy, Supplement of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1980, 2: 65-77
Modelling Lunar Extremes
Claims first made over half a century ago that certain prehistoric monuments utilised high-precision alignments on the horizon risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon have recently resurfaced. While archaeoastronomy early on retreated from these claims, as a way to preserve the discipline in an academic boundary dispute, it did so without a rigorous examination of Thom’s concept of a “lunar standstill”. Gough’s uncritical resurrection of Tho…
What is the Minor Standstill of the Moon
2014–2015 was the period of the minor standstill of the Moon. Archaeoastronomy has shown that many prehistoric monuments in northwest Europe have horizon alignments on the Sun’s solstices and the Moon’s standstills (North 1996; Ruggles 1999). These are horizon range properties of the risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon. In northern latitudes, at summer solstice, the Sun rises in the northeast and sets in the northwest, while at winter so…
Forum Reply
Gonzlez-Garca collaboratively engages with some of the conceptual and interpretive problems of minor lunar standstills, whereas Malville disagrees fundamentally with my view. Let us look at the particulars of each critique
What is a lunar standstill III
Prehistoric monument alignments on lunar standstills are currently understood for horizon range, perturbation event, crossover event, eclipse prediction, solstice full Moon and the solarisation of the dark Moon. The first five models are found to fail the criteria of archaeoastronomy field methods. The final model of lunar-solar conflation draws upon all the observed components of lunar standstills – solarised reverse phased sidereal Moons culmin…
B – the West Kennet Avenue Stone that Never Was: Interpretation by Multidisciplinary Triangulation and Emergence through Four Field Anthropology
The Logic of Empirical Proof: A Note on the Course of the Beckhampton Avenue
After 150 years of archaeological skepticism toward Stukeley's nineteenth-century claim for a Beckhampton avenue in the Avebury monuments, Gillings et al. (2008) have finally confirmed that it did in fact exist. However; contra Stukeley, they only allow its existence up to the site of the “Longstones Cove,” and dispute its continuation further to the southwest to Fox Covert, as claimed by Stukeley. This article attempts to demonstrate that by doc…
Entering, and returning from, the underworld: Reconstituting Silbury Hill by combining a quantified landscape phenomenology with archaeoastronomy
Landscape phenomenology limits the number of possible narratives for interpreting prehistoric monuments through the embodied experience of walking their remains in their landscape. While this method may improve upon an archaeology that narrows interpretation to single site excavations isolated in Euclidean space, it has been criticized for deploying unsubstantiated metaphors as an interpretative resource. Contemporary archaeoastronomy's dominant …
The ‘Solarization’ of the Moon: Manipulated Knowledge at Stonehenge
Recent archaeological research now views the northwest European Neolithic and Early Bronze Age as a period of separation from a resilient complex of traditions of Mesolithic and even Palaeolithic origin. Extending this insight to recent findings in archaeoastronomy, this article treats the sarsen monument at Stonehenge as one among a number of monuments with lunar–solar alignments which privileged night over day, winter over summer, dark moon ove…
The First Pre-University Anthropology Forum
Entering, and returning from, the underworld: Reconstituting Silbury Hill by combining a quantified landscape phenomenology with archaeoastronomy
Landscape phenomenology limits the number of possible narratives for interpreting prehistoric monuments through the embodied experience of walking their remains in their landscape. While this method may improve upon an archaeology that narrows interpretation to single site excavations isolated in Euclidean space, it has been criticized for deploying unsubstantiated metaphors as an interpretative resource. Contemporary archaeoastronomy's dominant …
What is the Minor Standstill of the Moon
2014–2015 was the period of the minor standstill of the Moon. Archaeoastronomy has shown that many prehistoric monuments in northwest Europe have horizon alignments on the Sun’s solstices and the Moon’s standstills (North 1996; Ruggles 1999). These are horizon range properties of the risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon. In northern latitudes, at summer solstice, the Sun rises in the northeast and sets in the northwest, while at winter so…
The ‘Solarization’ of the Moon: Manipulated Knowledge at Stonehenge
Recent archaeological research now views the northwest European Neolithic and Early Bronze Age as a period of separation from a resilient complex of traditions of Mesolithic and even Palaeolithic origin. Extending this insight to recent findings in archaeoastronomy, this article treats the sarsen monument at Stonehenge as one among a number of monuments with lunar–solar alignments which privileged night over day, winter over summer, dark moon ove…
Modelling Lunar Extremes
Claims first made over half a century ago that certain prehistoric monuments utilised high-precision alignments on the horizon risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon have recently resurfaced. While archaeoastronomy early on retreated from these claims, as a way to preserve the discipline in an academic boundary dispute, it did so without a rigorous examination of Thom’s concept of a “lunar standstill”. Gough’s uncritical resurrection of Tho…
The Logic of Empirical Proof: A Note on the Course of the Beckhampton Avenue
After 150 years of archaeological skepticism toward Stukeley's nineteenth-century claim for a Beckhampton avenue in the Avebury monuments, Gillings et al. (2008) have finally confirmed that it did in fact exist. However; contra Stukeley, they only allow its existence up to the site of the “Longstones Cove,” and dispute its continuation further to the southwest to Fox Covert, as claimed by Stukeley. This article attempts to demonstrate that by doc…
What is a lunar standstill III
Prehistoric monument alignments on lunar standstills are currently understood for horizon range, perturbation event, crossover event, eclipse prediction, solstice full Moon and the solarisation of the dark Moon. The first five models are found to fail the criteria of archaeoastronomy field methods. The final model of lunar-solar conflation draws upon all the observed components of lunar standstills – solarised reverse phased sidereal Moons culmin…
Returning from the Underworld: The West Kennet Palisades in the Avebury Monument Complex
In recent decades some archaeologists have come to doubt key components and properties of the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (EBA) Avebury monument complex. By site excavation of the Beckhampton Avenue, Silbury Hill, and the West Kennet Palisades the idea of an integrated group of contemporaneous monuments has been thrown into doubt. In this paper these critiques are themselves critiqued and further tested by an inter-disciplinary exercise integ…
Through the Dark Vale: Interpreting the Stonehenge Palisade through Interdisciplinary Convergence
The Stonehenge Palisade was a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age 2 km linear timberfence that ran alongside Stonehenge and its final Avenue approach. Within its middle section wasa 300–400 m gap. Four archaeology models of the Palisade, all of which include horizon viewing,are evaluated and revised against the presently known properties of this structure, and elementsof each retained after critique are integrated into an emergent interdisciplinary m…
A Commentary on L. V. Morrison, “On the Analysis of Megalithic Lunar Sightlines in Scotland”, Archaeoastronomy, Supplement of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1980, 2: 65–77
A Commentary on L. V. Morrison, "On the Analysis of Megalithic Lunar Sightlines in Scotland", Archaeoastronomy, Supplement of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1980, 2: 65-77
Forum Reply
Gonzlez-Garca collaboratively engages with some of the conceptual and interpretive problems of minor lunar standstills, whereas Malville disagrees fundamentally with my view. Let us look at the particulars of each critique
The First Pre-University Anthropology Forum
The ‘Solarization’ of the Moon: Manipulated Knowledge at Stonehenge
Recent archaeological research now views the northwest European Neolithic and Early Bronze Age as a period of separation from a resilient complex of traditions of Mesolithic and even Palaeolithic origin. Extending this insight to recent findings in archaeoastronomy, this article treats the sarsen monument at Stonehenge as one among a number of monuments with lunar–solar alignments which privileged night over day, winter over summer, dark moon ove…
The Logic of Empirical Proof: A Note on the Course of the Beckhampton Avenue
After 150 years of archaeological skepticism toward Stukeley's nineteenth-century claim for a Beckhampton avenue in the Avebury monuments, Gillings et al. (2008) have finally confirmed that it did in fact exist. However; contra Stukeley, they only allow its existence up to the site of the “Longstones Cove,” and dispute its continuation further to the southwest to Fox Covert, as claimed by Stukeley. This article attempts to demonstrate that by doc…
Entering, and returning from, the underworld: Reconstituting Silbury Hill by combining a quantified landscape phenomenology with archaeoastronomy
Landscape phenomenology limits the number of possible narratives for interpreting prehistoric monuments through the embodied experience of walking their remains in their landscape. While this method may improve upon an archaeology that narrows interpretation to single site excavations isolated in Euclidean space, it has been criticized for deploying unsubstantiated metaphors as an interpretative resource. Contemporary archaeoastronomy's dominant …
B – the West Kennet Avenue Stone that Never Was: Interpretation by Multidisciplinary Triangulation and Emergence through Four Field Anthropology
What is the Minor Standstill of the Moon
2014–2015 was the period of the minor standstill of the Moon. Archaeoastronomy has shown that many prehistoric monuments in northwest Europe have horizon alignments on the Sun’s solstices and the Moon’s standstills (North 1996; Ruggles 1999). These are horizon range properties of the risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon. In northern latitudes, at summer solstice, the Sun rises in the northeast and sets in the northwest, while at winter so…
Forum Reply
Gonzlez-Garca collaboratively engages with some of the conceptual and interpretive problems of minor lunar standstills, whereas Malville disagrees fundamentally with my view. Let us look at the particulars of each critique
What is a lunar standstill III
Prehistoric monument alignments on lunar standstills are currently understood for horizon range, perturbation event, crossover event, eclipse prediction, solstice full Moon and the solarisation of the dark Moon. The first five models are found to fail the criteria of archaeoastronomy field methods. The final model of lunar-solar conflation draws upon all the observed components of lunar standstills – solarised reverse phased sidereal Moons culmin…
Modelling Lunar Extremes
Claims first made over half a century ago that certain prehistoric monuments utilised high-precision alignments on the horizon risings and settings of the Sun and the Moon have recently resurfaced. While archaeoastronomy early on retreated from these claims, as a way to preserve the discipline in an academic boundary dispute, it did so without a rigorous examination of Thom’s concept of a “lunar standstill”. Gough’s uncritical resurrection of Tho…
A Commentary on L. V. Morrison, “On the Analysis of Megalithic Lunar Sightlines in Scotland”, Archaeoastronomy, Supplement of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1980, 2: 65–77
A Commentary on L. V. Morrison, "On the Analysis of Megalithic Lunar Sightlines in Scotland", Archaeoastronomy, Supplement of the Journal for the History of Astronomy, 1980, 2: 65-77
Through the Dark Vale: Interpreting the Stonehenge Palisade through Interdisciplinary Convergence
The Stonehenge Palisade was a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age 2 km linear timberfence that ran alongside Stonehenge and its final Avenue approach. Within its middle section wasa 300–400 m gap. Four archaeology models of the Palisade, all of which include horizon viewing,are evaluated and revised against the presently known properties of this structure, and elementsof each retained after critique are integrated into an emergent interdisciplinary m…
Bootstrapping our Breakout
Bootstrapping our Breakout
Returning from the Underworld: The West Kennet Palisades in the Avebury Monument Complex
In recent decades some archaeologists have come to doubt key components and properties of the Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (EBA) Avebury monument complex. By site excavation of the Beckhampton Avenue, Silbury Hill, and the West Kennet Palisades the idea of an integrated group of contemporaneous monuments has been thrown into doubt. In this paper these critiques are themselves critiqued and further tested by an inter-disciplinary exercise integ…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Historical and Architectural Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Horizon (4 works) · Astronomy (3 works) · Bronze Age (3 works)