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 Site of the Goseck circle. The yellow lines represent the direction the Sun rises and sets at the winter solstice, while the vertical line shows the astronomical meridian |
The Goseck circle is a Neolithic structure in Goseck in the Burgenlandkreis district in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It consists of a set of concentric ditches 75 metres (246 feet) across and two palisade rings containing gates in defined places. It is considered the earliest sun observatory currently known in the world. Interpretations of the ring suggest that European Neolithic and Bronze Age people measured the heavens far earlier and more accurately than historians have thought. The site was made public in August 2003. German media have called the site "German Stonehenge," although the use of the term henge for structures outside Britain and Ireland is disputed and it apparently has no earth bank.
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| Scientific American December 2003: Scientific American December 2003: www.sciam.com/.../article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=000CDCCF-1783-1FA8-95ED83414B7F0000&pageNumber=1&catID=4 - Web |
| Ulrich Boser - Solar Circle (Archaeology Magazine ... Ulrich Boser - Solar Circle (Archaeology Magazine Vol Number 4 July/August 2006) www.archaeology.org/0607/abstracts/henge.html - Web |
| Essay in English from the Deutsche Welle Essay in English from the Deutsche Welle www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,942824,00.html - Web |
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