Canada's Suntemple predates Stonehenge ?

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a maverick scientist claims to have discovered a "cairn/suntemple" near brooks , alberta , that predates stonehenge and the pyramids .
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Alberta sun temple has 5,000-year-old calendar

EDMONTON – An academic maverick is challenging conventional wisdom on Canada's prehistory by claiming an archeological site in southern Alberta is really a vast, open-air sun temple with a precise 5,000-year-old calendar predating England's Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids.

Mainstream archeologists consider the rock-encircled cairn to be just another medicine wheel left behind by early aboriginals. But a new book by retired University of Alberta professor Gordon Freeman says it is in fact the centre of a 26-square-kilometre stone ``lacework" that marks the changing seasons and the phases of the moon with greater accuracy than our current calendar.

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http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/579301

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An aerial view of a 5,000-year-old stone cairn and other structures in southern Alberta that a maverick Edmonton scientist believes are the central features of an ancient sun temple and calendar that accurately marks the solstices and the equinoxes.

http://www.canadarentals.net/images/brooks_alberta_map.gif

brooks is located in southern alberta - on the "trans-canada highway" about halfway between calgary and the saskatchewan border

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interesting, i wonder what the historical implications will be

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I just spent a couple of minutes checking out other pre-historic solar observatories. About 2,300 years ago at Chankillo in Peru, the locals constructed a series of towers to track the sun. And none of your 'holes in the ground that could have held posts that might have been intended to track astronomical events" - 13 carefully constructed stone towers

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42629000/jpg/_42629987_solartop_203.jpg

However, this one is a real beauty! A neolithic observatory in Europe!!

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The current issue of Archaeology [volume 59, number 4, July/August 2006] reports the excavation and reconstruction of a 7,ooo year old circular henge in Germany. Built around 4600 B.C., this wooden henge predates both Stonehenge and the Pyramids of Egypt. Combining GPS and archaeological findings, researchers claim:
". . .the two southern gates of the henge marked the start of the summer and winter solstice, making the enclosure possibly the world's oldest solar observatory."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goseck_circle

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@hamburger,

That would certainly change a few opinions on Canadian history!

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@ehBeth,

it seems that we all are a little older than we'd like to admit ...
hbg

snap from a recent gathering of a2k "seniors" - sprightly looking bunch , aren't they ?
hbg