Archaeoastronomy and the alleged "Stonehenge calendar"

• Autores: Giulio Magli, Juan Antonio Belmonte
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 97, Nº 393, 2023, págs. 745-751
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a recent Antiquity article, Darvill (2022) proposed that the mid third-millennium BC Stage 2 sarsen settings of Stonehenge (comprising the Trilithon Horseshoe, Sarsen Circle and the Station Stone Rectangle) were conceived in order to represent a calendar year of 365.25 days—that is, a calendar identical in duration to the Julian calendar. In the present article, the authors argue that this proposal is unsubstantiated, being based as it is on a combination of numerology, astronomical error and unsupported analogy.