Branwen wrote:
Tiompan, I recollect now about the pleiades... you were asking me my source of information. Now we have computer models they are doing more work on pleiadian alignments as the sky would have looked at different periods in prehistory, and coming up with good results. There's been some work done at Calanais for instance, and a google search on pleides stone alignements calanais or callanish will show up a few. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1977JHA.....8..113C was the article I was reading about it, but forget the exact page. I'm sure the researcher that had done a lot of computer simulations of the ancient night sky was called Hawkes or Hawkins though.
Branwen , I know the Ruggles paper , which is quite good as it shows Callanish be a lot less interesting astronomically than is usually believed .
I havent read this book, but the contents have pleiades connections in several chapters on a few other megalithic sites:
http://www.starsstonesscholars.com/tableofcontents.htm
They do mention the Pleaides once but give the possible alignment no credence .
It is also often considered to be depicted in Paleoart , but it's still seven dots which could be anything .
Can't rememebr the bloke's name from stars and stones but it's madness , just not worth considering . he'll find an "alignment " anywhere to anything .