Archaeologists have discovered a 5,400-year-old megalithic tomb near a prominent lone mountain in southern Spain, suggesting the peak may have been meaningful to prehistoric people there. The area, in the countryside near the city of Antequera, is renowned for its megaliths — prehistoric monuments made from large stones — and the newly found tomb seems […]
5,400-year-old tomb discovered in Spain captures the summer solstice | Live Science — Tom Metcalfe
A recent talk I gave at the library in St Ives was recorded and has been made available online, here is a link to it,
Equinox and Cornwall — Archaeoastronomy Cornwall
By Nigel Swift I was interested to read about the latest excavations and theories at Arthur’s stone, as it’s a place I’ve visited very frequently. One thing particularly caught my eye. It’s later stage was said to have „pointed to a location to the southeast between Skirrid Hill and Garway Hill“ That equates with this […]
Arthur’s Stone: latest excavations and Alfred Watkins — The Heritage Journal
We always knew this, having held at least 15 annual megameets there, but now it has been confirmed! . Gratifyingly, there wasn’t a single mention of the National Trust!
Avebury rated best village in UK by readers of Which! — The Heritage Journal
For the latest in our Ancient Wonders series, we look to France over 5,000 years ago. On a small island in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany lies the Gavrinis Passage Tomb. The uninhabited island is formed from granite rock but is a tourist attraction for it holds the region’s most impressive Neolithic site. The […]
Ancient Wonders: The Gavrinis Passage Tomb — Just History Posts
Heritage Malta is celebrating the 40th anniversary sinceUNESCO declared the Ġgantija Temples a World Heritage Site in 1980 – the year that also saw Valletta and the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum being given the same recognition. Source: 40 years since UNESCO declared Ġgantija a World Heritage Site – The Malta Independent
40 years since UNESCO declared Ġgantija a World Heritage Site; The Malta Independent — All About World Heritage Sites
Poulnabrone Dolmen, Luftbild
This is the so called Giant’s Ring, a late Neolithic henge monument at Ballynahatty, near Shaw’s Bridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland…
Inside the enclosure, east of the centre, is a small passage tomb with an entrance passage facing west…
The genetic data obtained from the female remains found inside the tomb, and dated to (3343–3020 cal. BC) shows „predominant ancestry from early farmers“ and „haplotypic affinity with modern southern Mediterranean populations such as Sardinians“.
Also „she shares higher levels of genetic drift with Early and MN samples from Spain rather than those from Germany…and arguing for the possible passage of farming to Ireland via a southern coastal route rather than via the migrations through central Europe“.
From „Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome“
Now this is pointing at the neolithic people (first farmers) migrating into Europe following two routes, both starting in the Balkans:
1. Up along Morava river to Danube and then up along Danube river into centra Europe and onward to North and Baltic seas and then further into Britain.
2. Along north mediterranean coast via Italy, France, Spain and further into Ireland.
Now according to the archaeological data presented in „Farming and woodland dynamics in Ireland during the Neolithic“ the first farmers arrived to Ireland some time after „the great elm decline“ which is pinned to around 3800BC.
Now at that time, in the 4th millennium BC, the tourists wanting to travel along the north Mediterranean coast had two options: to walk, or to use the Neolithic seafaring trading routes that we know existed between Balkans and Iberia (via Sicily and Sardinia). I talked about this trading route in my post „Neolithic seafarers„.
read more:http://oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/10/giants-ring.html
The Kanayama Megaliths Research Team made a field trip to Sengeyama in the Nakatsugawa area on September 27, 2020. The purpose was to observe and record the autumn equinox sunset for the first time. It was reported by Shiho Tokuda on their blog. The following are edited excerpts from the post. “This Mt. Senge is […]
Autumn Equinox Sunset at Sengeyama — Iwaya-Iwakage of Kanayama Megaliths
Source: Orkney’s houses of the dead are a topsy-turvey glimpse into past
Orkney’s houses of the dead are a topsy-turvey glimpse into past; Mike Merritt; Herald — All About World Heritage Sites
Die Goldene Landschaft 