The 56 Aubrey Holes at Stonehenge may encode three lunar cycles corresponding to the moon's 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle. If accurate, this suggests Neolithic peoples meticulously tracked lunar movements for nearly six decades, embedding serious astronomical precision directly into stone.
56 Aubrey Holes encode 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle
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Key facts
- The 56 Aubrey Holes' spacing encodes three lunar cycles
- Pattern corresponds to the moon's 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle
- Suggests Neolithic peoples accurately tracked the moon for nearly 20 years
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Stonehenge: A New Theoryjournals.uchicago.edu
Thus the Station Stones appear to link the solar and lunar cycles to the burial pits of the Aubrey Hole setting, bringing the dead into conjunction with the ...
Aubrey holes - Stonehenge Stone Circle News and Informationblog.stonehenge-stone-circle.co.uk
the 56 Aubrey Holes could be used to predict eclipses. Every month you can fix the Moon marker by making sure it's in the Aubrey Hole directly opposite the Sun ...
Aubrey holesen.wikipedia.org
The Aubrey holes are a ring of 56 chalk pits at Stonehenge, They date to the earliest phases of Stonehenge … three consecutive 18.61 year-long lunar cycles.
The Aubrey Holes Revisitedadsabs.harvard.edu
by CT Daub · 1993 · Cited by 1 — 295306-day cycle of lunar phases. The circle of 56 Aubrey Holes represents a very early phase of Stonehenge, predating the previously discussed surviving ...
[Sticky] Stonehenge: Ancient Monument as Cycle Computercyclesresearchinstitute.org
Hawkins noted that 56, the number of Aubrey Holes, is close to three times 18.61 years (19 + 19 + 18 ≈ 56). His proposed method was to move a ...
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