Stonehenge Wasn’t a Calendar!

Dealing with Historical Stonehenge Dogma
The new paper by Guilio Magli, from the Politecnico of Milan, and Juan Antonio Belmonte, from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and Universidad de La Laguna in Tenerife, was published in Antiquity. Within their study, PHYS explained that the above theory was subjected to “a severe stress test by experts of archaeoastronomy. ”

If you don’t already know, the latter author, Giulio Magli, is an Italian astrophysicist and archaeo-astronomer who works primarily on the relationship between the architecture of ancient cultures and the sky. Since 2009 Magli has taught a course on archaeoastronomy, representing the first ever such course offered in an Italian University.

In their new study, the pair of archaeoastronomical researchers demonstrated that the old Stonehenge calendar theory is based on “a series of forced interpretations of the astronomical connections of the monument, as well as on debatable numerology and unsupported analogies. ”

While the researchers accept that the key alignment at Stonehenge, which marks the summer solstice sunrise and to the winter solstice sunset, “was deliberate, ” it’s another thing altogether to assume the site served ancient communities like some kind of giant calendar.

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