Passage graves from an astronomical perspective

15 December 2008

Passage graves are mysterious barrows from the Stone Age. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute indicates that the Stone Age graves’ orientation in the landscape could have an astronomical explanation. The Danish passage graves are most likely oriented according to the path of the full moon, perhaps even according to the full moon immediately before a lunar eclipse. The results are published in the scientific journal Acta Archaeologica.

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