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Wurdi Youang: an Australian Aboriginal stone arrangement with possible solar indications

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Wurdi Youang is an egg-shaped Aboriginal stone arrangement in Victoria, Australia. Here we present a new survey of the site, and show that its major axis is aligned within a few degrees of east-west. We confirm a previous hypothesis that it contains alignments to the position on the horizon of the setting sun at the equinox and the solstices, and show that two independent sets of indicators are aligned in these directions. We show that these alignments are unlikely to have arisen by chance, and instead the builders of this stone arrangement appear to have deliberately aligned the site on astronomically significant positions.

Source: Rock Art Research

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.7000

Authors: Norris, Ray P., Norris, Cilla, Hamacher, Duane W., Abrahams, Reg

Institution: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Language: English

Topic: Historical and Architectural Studies

Subfield: Archeology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

OpenAlex ID: W1584019194

FWCI: 14.44

Cites: 14

Cited by: 18

Related to: 10