1. The megalithic story of Professor Alexander Thom.
- Author
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Sixsmith, Edmund
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ENGINEERS ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. ,MEGALITHIC monuments ,MEASUREMENT - Abstract
Fifty years ago Alexander Thom, engineer, master surveyor and statistician, published a famous paper in a Royal Statistical Society journal and started a controversy. Our ancient ancestors, he said, had used a standard and astonishingly accurate measurement, the megalithic yard, to construct Stonehenge and hundreds of other megalithic monuments, all across northern Europe, and to align them as lunar observatories. Edmund Sixsmith rakes the ashes of Thom's intriguing claims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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