Sky-religion in the Bronze Age discussed on TV
A lecturer will be explaining the history of a sacred calendar – that could be Germany’s equivalent to Stonehenge – on the BBC’s Horizon programme in January
Professor Miranda Aldhouse-Green, a senior lecturer at the University of Wales College, Newport has been filmed discussing a Bronze Age sky-disc, which features in early man’s attempts to map the heavens.
Prof Aldhouse-Green, a European prehistorian specialising in the archaeology of ritual and religion, was filmed for the popular Horizon TV series.
“They spent a day interviewing me about the significance of an ancient sky-disc, dating from around 1600BC, which may have been used by priests as a sacred calendar,” explained Prof Aldhouse- Green.