David Hoyle has written an introduction to how his landscape and horizon viewer web site app that links from our site pages works: Archaeoastronomy is the study of how ancient people understood and used the sky, and the role it played in their cultures. The location of a site within its landscape, along with relevant markers, is crucial in this study. It suggests that a cosmological system was maintained from the late Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age, and many Bronze Age monuments, especially those from the latter part of the Bronze Age, have been shown to follow specific astronomical patterns.
Published on February 12, 2025 10:00
