Situated in Wiltshire, England, a few kilometers south of the modern town of Swindon, Avebury is one of the largest and most impressive Later Neolithic henge monuments in Britain. Built around the middle of the third millennium b.c.e., it measures some 350 meters (1,150 feet) across and surrounds an entire modern village. The outer […]
Is it possible to date an archaeological site by astronomical means? In theory, the answer is yes, for if we can identify an alignment and the intended astronomical target, measure where the alignment points, and then use modern astronomy to calculate where that event occurred at different times in the past, then we can […]