Strict solar alignment of Bronze Age rock carvings in SE Sweden

Ales Stones in SE Sweden: A solar calendar from the Late Bronze Age

“…Converging evidence (Section 4 above) indicate that the quarrying and shiping must have taken place at around 750 BC. (Lind, 1996(Lind, , 2004, (2) the stoneship of Stenhed: SS/Ss + SR/Ws (Lind, 1996(Lind, , 2004, (3) rock carvings at Järrestad and Simrishamn: SR/Ws (Mörner, 2012a), (4) the Brantarör graves: SS/Ss (Lind, 2011a), (5) the stone circle of Heimdall's Stones: SR/Ws + SS/Ss (Mörner et al, 2009), (6) stoneship at Ängakåsen: N-S/E-W (Mörner et al, 2009;Mörner, 1996), (7) the stone circle at Östra Karup: SS/Ss (Mörner unpublished documentation in 2014), (7) the stoneship and mounds of Tofta Högar: SS/Ss + SR/Ws (Mörner, unpublished, Mörner, 1996), (9) the stone mounds of Gröthögarna and "road" leading up to them: SS/Ss + SR/Ws (Mörner, unpublished documentation in 2008), and (10) the Bronze Age mound of Dagshög and the adjacent stone-lines: SS/Ws (Mörner, unpublished, Mörner, 1996, and photo documentation by Lembke in 2014). .…”

“…The original fracturing can only have occurred at a major earthquake, where one can identify major extentional forces in two perpendicular directions (Mörner, 2012b(Mörner, , 2014Mörner and Lind, 2013). Traces of this earthquake have been recorded over an area of about 70 × 20 km and include post-carving fracuring of numerous petroglyphs from the Bronze Age (Mörner, 2012a(Mörner, , 2012b(Mörner, , 2014. The magnitude was estimated at about 6.3-6.8 (Mörner, 2014).…”

“…Solar symbols are common motifs on Bronze Age rock-carvings. Mörner (2012a) showed that the individual pictures are strictly oriented with respect to the annual motions of the Sun: all ships point to the sunset at Winter solstice, the majority of feet and "shoe" symbols point to the sunrise at Winter solstice like many others petroglyphs, a serpent wiggles towards the sunrise at Summer solstice. This indicates quite clearly and firmly that the Sun-cult was central for the Bronze Age people of southern Scandinavia.…”

“…This indicates quite clearly and firmly that the Sun-cult was central for the Bronze Age people of southern Scandinavia. The sunrise at Winter solstice seems to have been the most important day of the year judging from the alignments of petroglyphs (Mörner, 2012a).…”

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

“…In order to undertake a proper statistical analysis, all of them were measured as to geographic position. In quite sharp and pointed gauss-curves, 86.8% were strictly aligned to the sunrise at Winter solstice, 7.6% at the sunset at the Summer solstice, and only 5.5% at other directions (Mörner, 2012).…”