tiompan wrote:
Animism doesn't preclude marking astro events , it might be part of the belief system .
Yep.
tiompan wrote:
I don't think that most open air RA has any archaeoastro connection but if they are there it should be recorded and considered . There are a few monuments that are accepted as having intentional astro alignments and they often have RA in or on them .
Very true - though there are still some folk who'd even argue the astronomy ingredients! I tend to find that it's those who don't gerrout too much. Would you agree though: caution is probably the best ingredient in this arena. Of the hundreds of CRs in Yorkshire for example, less than a handful throw out any obvious astro-ingredients. And I'd even take that figure into the notion of the designs being star-maps (though would love to be proved wrong!). 