Astroarchaeology

Ireland's megalithic artworks and landscapes include the world's oldest known buildings and astronomical observatories - chambered passage mounds, dolmens, stone circles, standing stones and petroglyphs aligned to the sun, moon and stars on astronomically significant dates. Built by pre-Indoeuropean stone age indigenous people as far back as 4,800 BCE, these proto-scientific instruments seem to have first enabled humans to observe and synchronise the sun and moon cycles, with revolutionary implications for accepted notions about the origins of the scientific method. Having survived millennia, the monuments are now being damaged during renovation work by archaeologists who deny or downplay their astronomical design.

Michael O'Callaghan would like to set up an International Institute of Astroarchaeology to research, understand and inform the public about the astronomical, anthropological and artistic aspects of these artworks, so as to conserve and transmit this legacy from the ancient past for future generations.

For details, see the archived website of the proposed institute at www.global-vision.org/astroachaeology/archive/

Note: Within the archived website, the old external links to the original site are no longer active.

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