The Neolithic and Bronze Age monument complex of Thornborough in North Yorkshire highlights the significance of heavenly bodies to religious belief and practice. Its investigation by a novel methodology employing virtual reality technology demonstrates alignments with Orion’s Belt and the midwinter sunrise. It is argued that these were deliberate, replicating the seasonal movement of those using the complex and thereby suggesting a close relationship between people’s skyscape and life cycles.
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Harding, J. (2015). The neolithic and Bronze Age monument complex of thornborough, North Yorkshire, UK. In Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (pp. 1239–1248). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_119
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