Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos

11 THE FIRST THREE STONEHENGES (#litres_trial_promo)

The Q-R Henge (#litres_trial_promo)

Reversible Alignments (#litres_trial_promo)

The Levels of the Sarsen Trilithons and Circle (#litres_trial_promo)

The Geometry of the Sarsen Pillars (#litres_trial_promo)

The Geometry of Obscuration (#litres_trial_promo)

The Blocking of Rays through the Q- and R-Circles (#litres_trial_promo)

Sarsen Ring and Midwinter Sun (#litres_trial_promo)

Altar Stone and Midwinter Sun (#litres_trial_promo)

Geometers, Engineers and Astronomers (#litres_trial_promo)

The Sarsen Ring and Midsummer? (#litres_trial_promo)

The Sarsen Ring and the Moon (#litres_trial_promo)

The Moon and the Stone Stations (#litres_trial_promo)

The Trilithons (#litres_trial_promo)

The Trilithons—an Independent Monument? (#litres_trial_promo)

The Geometrical Design (#litres_trial_promo)

A Chronological Summary (#litres_trial_promo)

12 LOZENGE AND CALENDAR (#litres_trial_promo)

The Lozenge Motif (#litres_trial_promo)

Bush Barrow (#litres_trial_promo)

The Bush Barrow Lozenge Was Not a Calendar (#litres_trial_promo)

The Lozenge as Geometrical Construct (#litres_trial_promo)

The Lozenge as Symbol (#litres_trial_promo)

13 RITUAL AND BELIEF (#litres_trial_promo)

Tokens of Religion (#litres_trial_promo)

Signs of a Priesthood? (#litres_trial_promo)

The Objects of Worship (#litres_trial_promo)

Myth, Explanation and Logic (#litres_trial_promo)

Solar Symbols (#litres_trial_promo)

High Places (#litres_trial_promo)

Sun, Moon and Sacrifice (#litres_trial_promo)

The Cult of the Ox (#litres_trial_promo)

Prejudice and Principle (#litres_trial_promo)

APPENDIX 1—Radiocarbon Dating (#litres_trial_promo)

APPENDIX 2—The Astronomical Framework (#litres_trial_promo)

APPENDIX 3—Tables of Directions (#litres_trial_promo)

APPENDIX 4—Heliacal Rising and Setting (#litres_trial_promo)

APPENDIX 5—The Rising and Setting of Venus (#litres_trial_promo)

APPENDIX 6—Alignment in Later Religions (#litres_trial_promo)

FOOTNOTES (#litres_trial_promo)

BIBLIOGRAPHY (#litres_trial_promo)

INDEX (#litres_trial_promo)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (#litres_trial_promo)

OTHER BOOKS BY (#litres_trial_promo)

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER (#litres_trial_promo)

LIST OF FIGURES (#ulink_f07220ee-179c-5933-a465-5263d4f3ab49)

Fig. 1 The directions of the rising and setting Sun at Stonehenge, around 2000 BC. (#ulink_8eeaba16-f748-5961-8cf8-efb5abfc8c97)

Fig. 2 The absolute extreme directions of the rising and setting Moon at Stonehenge, around 2000 BC. (#ulink_659caad6-50f6-51db-8942-4b2a35680de4)

Fig. 3 Maps of Britain and Ireland (the main henges) and Southern Britain (principal prehistoric monuments discussed). (#ulink_8c5900a0-719f-5f03-91fd-fe3b2261e4b9)