Stonehenge builders had geometry skills to rival Pythagoras

[L. Coyote]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/stonehenge-builders-had-geometry-skills-to-rival-pythagoras-834313.html

By David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent
Monday, 26 May 2008


Stone Age Britons had a sophisticated knowledge of geometry to rival Pythagoras – 2,000 years before the Greek "father of numbers" was born, according to a new study of Stonehenge.

Five years of detailed research, carried out by the Oxford University landscape archaeologist Anthony Johnson, claims that Stonehenge was designed and built using advanced geometry.

The discovery has immense implications for understanding the monument – and the people who built it. It also suggests it is more rooted in the study of geometry than early astronomy – as is often speculated.

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1. interesting

"He also argues that this knowledge was regarded as a form of arcane wisdom or magic that conferred a privileged status on the elite who possessed it, as it also featured on gold artefacts found in prehistoric graves."

That fits in with the recent theory that Stonehenge functioned partly as a burial place for an elite lineage.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Interesting information. Far, FAR older than I've heard. Wonderful news. n/t