3rd July 2013, 09:21 PM
I will hold my hands up and tell you I have been doing a project that involved archaeo-astronomy- what convinces me - is the practitioner that advised us reminded me to stop using absolutes... as using a total station is different from a stick... and string as is the reality of standing there and waiting for the sun to do something or moon... it may rain, it may be cloudy ( often ) and so the accuracy needs a few days either side. in addition to beware using far points to sight on. and try and have three things in a row. what I liked was following these rules the team found not 1 not 2 but 5 alignments to major events... and that was just the sun...
Keep it simple and remember that the people of the past were looking for a rough idea of what was happening when...
ie... "when the sun rises about ther... its time for plantin' ! "
even things like house orientation...
If you think about it... do you even think twice about churches being east west? ah... archaeo-astronomy.... or that teh sunbox at Newgrange is real? er.....
So actually we already do use it... but are fearful of being branded druids...
Collect teh data... and then see what happens
Keep it simple and remember that the people of the past were looking for a rough idea of what was happening when...
ie... "when the sun rises about ther... its time for plantin' ! "
even things like house orientation...
If you think about it... do you even think twice about churches being east west? ah... archaeo-astronomy.... or that teh sunbox at Newgrange is real? er.....
So actually we already do use it... but are fearful of being branded druids...
Collect teh data... and then see what happens