Stonehenge Has Got a Younger Sister  Ales Stones in Sweden Decoded

Mörner, Nils‐Axel; Lind, Bob G.

doi:10.4236/ijaa.2012.21004

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“…Obviously, this point in the Solar year was not as important in southern Scandinavia, as it seems to have been in the British Islands judging from the structure and geometric setting of monuments like Stonehenge (Mörner and Lind, 2012). In southern Scandinavia the main event to celebrate was the sunrise at Winter solstice as demonstrated for Heimdalls Stones (Mörner et al, 2009), Ales Stones (Lind and Mörner, 2010) and by the majority of carvings on the rock surface at Järrestad (this paper).…”

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“…The orientation of the big stone-ship of Ales Stones is in SEeNW (Lind and Mörner, 2010;Mörner and Lind, 2012) like the mini-ship at Järrestad. Ohlmarks (1983) even proposed that the mini-ship at Järrestad was a blueprint of the Ales Stones.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Sweden, three archaeastronomical monuments have been documented and dated at the Bronze Age (Mörner et al, 2009;Lind and Mörner, 2010;Mörner and Lind, 2012). Besides, there are numerous rock carvings, ornaments and objects that provide a clear message of a central sun-cult in Scandinavian Bronze Age (e.g.…”

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Strict solar alignment of Bronze Age rock carvings in SE Sweden

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“…The Ales Stones are an impressive monument of 60 stones (today 59 left) in the form of a 69 m long stone-ship, precisely oriented with respect to the annual and daily movements of the Sun through the sky (Figure 1, site 7) (Lind, 2005;Mörner, 2015;Mörner & Lind, 2012). This monument is an astronomical calendar and records 11 months of 30 days and a 12 th month (July) of 35 days, giving a full year of 365 days.…”

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A Golden Calendar from the Bronze Age

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Henriksson³

2018

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A golden object found in southern Sweden 170 years ago is found, in fact, to be an ancient calendar. The golden object is ornamented with 12 sun-symbols and 12 moon-symbols; i.e. a combined picture of the annual movements of the Sun and the Moon through the sky. It is divided into 6 wedges by spoke structures. This is a representation of the Sumerian sexagesimal system. Similar images are present in rock-carvings in Sweden, and on a stone tablet from the ancient temple in Sippar in Mesopotamia. This gives evidence of a remarkably advanced knowledge in astronomy and a wide distribution of this knowledge from Mesopotamia all the way up to Scandinavia.

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“…direction (Figure 2), Ales Stones has a basic geometry consisting of a rectangle, a circle and the line of the first sunbeams at summer solstice. When the Stonehenge picture is superposed on that of Ales Stones, the two basic geometric elements co-inside in details (Mörner & Lind, 2012). This cannot be a mere coincidence but must imply an active cultural exchange (i.e.…”

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Long-Distance Travel and Trading in the Bronze Age: The East Mediterranean-Scandinavia Case

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2015

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Bronze was imported to Scandinavia from the East Mediterranean. This trading started about 1750 BC. At just the same time amber from the Baltic started to appear in Mycenaean and Minoan graves. This gives evidence of active trading between the Mediterranean and Scandinavia. The sudden appearance of picture of large ships cut into bedrock surfaces and blocks at about the same time suggests that this trading took place via visitors arriving by ships. The size of the ships seems to preclude a stepwise transfer via the river systems between the Black Sea and the Baltic, but rather a travel over the Atlantic Sea. This calls for sea-worthy ships and knowledge in geography. In the Bronze Age, only the Mycenaean, Minoan and Phoenician cultures had such ships and such skill. Reaching this far north by 1750 BC in ships following the Atlantic coast of Europe implies that those people may as well have reached much further to the south and the west than previously assumed.

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Stonehenge Has Got a Younger Sister Ales Stones in Sweden Decoded

Abstract: We report a novel finding that Stonehenge in England and Ales Stones in Sweden were built with the same basic geometry and using the megalithic yard as standard of measure. This opens quite new perspectives into cultural influence, travel and trading in the Bronze Age.

Cited by 13 publications

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Strict solar alignment of Bronze Age rock carvings in SE Sweden

Strict solar alignment of Bronze Age rock carvings in SE Sweden

A Golden Calendar from the Bronze Age

Long-Distance Travel and Trading in the Bronze Age: The East Mediterranean-Scandinavia Case

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