archaeo Wrote:
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> It does not matter the size,

It doesn't? But the argument on your website relies, inter alia, on a unit of measure of exactly the same length as the present day 12" English foot existing as long ago as the Neolithic. The evidence that I've referred to shows that it's far more likely that the 12" English foot that we know today is effectively a foreign import from the era of Classical Antiquity. If you want to suggest that a unit of measure of 304.8 mm was in use in the British Isles during the Neolithic, whether as an alleged geodetic construct or as an equivalent to a body part, you would have to demonstrate that there's convincing evidence of its presence. The ancient system of measurement supposedly in use in this time and place was Thom's Megalithic system, about which many schools of thought are - with good reason - still highly sceptical. If Thom's system did exist, which is doubtful, why would there have been a separate, apparently unrelated, system based on astrogeodesic measurements? You would have to show that people in the UK Neolithic, despite living in a pre-literate era, were capable of advanced mathematical skills, of making advanced astronomical observations, and of undertaking accurate large-scale geographical surveys. Where is the evidence for any of this? Cartographers were still struggling to come up with an accurate map of Britain in the 15th century AD. And trying to draw conclusions about alleged astrogeodesic units from the spacing of various megalithic monuments about the landscape is IMO a fundamentally flawed method; as we've seen time and time again on this forum, the existence of geometric relationships between sites is no guarantee that such relationships were necessarily ever intended.

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