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A new interdisciplinary study makes the rather intriguing suggestion that two Bronze Age timber circles in England were constructed to carry out a cuckoo ritual and to bury a sacrificial warrior. Combining archaeoastronomy, archaeology and folklore, the author of the paper discusses how this ritual may have been enacted as a response to severe environmental change. In this week's ancient history news I talk about the study and also discuss an intervisibility analysis that has been carried out on the Gor River Valley megaliths in southeastern Spain.
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01:09 New study suggests Seahenge may have been built as a cuckoo enclosure
11:43 Intervisibility analysis carried out of the Gor River Valley megaliths in Spain
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Nance, D.A., 2024. Holme I (Seahenge) and Holme II: ritual responses to climate change in Early Bronze Age Britain. GeoJournal, 89(2), p.88.
González, C.C., Almonacid, A.G. and Serrano, J.A.C., 2024. Approach to the visual landscape of the Gor river megalithic necropolises (Granada, Spain). Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 33, p.e00335.
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Images and diagrams about Seahenge and folklore, creditL Nance, D. A., in the paper referenced above.
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Images and diagrams about the Gor River megaliths, credit: González, C. C., et al., in the paper referenced above.
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Artefacts of the Bell Beaker Culture, credit: Junta de Castilla y León, Archivo Museo Numantino, Alejandro Plaza
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Seahenge on display at the British Museum, credit: -JvL-
Calanais Standing Stones, credit: M J Richardson
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Dolmen in the Llano de Olivares, credit: Falconaumanni
A new interdisciplinary study makes the rather intriguing suggestion that two Bronze Age timber circles in England were constructed to carry out a cuckoo ritual and to bury a sacrificial warrior. Combining archaeoastronomy, archaeology and folklore, the author of the paper discusses how this ritual may have been enacted as a response to severe environmental change. In this week's ancient history news I talk about the study and also discuss an intervisibility analysis that has been carried out on the Gor River Valley megaliths in southeastern Spain.
#ancienthistory #archaeology #bronzeagecomics
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
01:09 New study suggests Seahenge may have been built as a cuckoo enclosure
11:43 Intervisibility analysis carried out of the Gor River Valley megaliths in Spain
✨ JOIN MY CHANNEL
youtube.com/channel/UC0Hs5t0U6Uf993Tba22YmKA/join
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Instagram & Facebook: @MegalithHunter
Twitter: @Megalith_Hunter
✨ REFERENCES
Nance, D.A., 2024. Holme I (Seahenge) and Holme II: ritual responses to climate change in Early Bronze Age Britain. GeoJournal, 89(2), p.88.
González, C.C., Almonacid, A.G. and Serrano, J.A.C., 2024. Approach to the visual landscape of the Gor river megalithic necropolises (Granada, Spain). Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, 33, p.e00335.
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
CC BY 4.0 DEED creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Images and diagrams about Seahenge and folklore, creditL Nance, D. A., in the paper referenced above.
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Images and diagrams about the Gor River megaliths, credit: González, C. C., et al., in the paper referenced above.
CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Artefacts of the Bell Beaker Culture, credit: Junta de Castilla y León, Archivo Museo Numantino, Alejandro Plaza
CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Seahenge on display at the British Museum, credit: -JvL-
Calanais Standing Stones, credit: M J Richardson
CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Dolmen in the Llano de Olivares, credit: Falconaumanni
