| 词条 | Canada's Stonehenge |
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| name = Canada's Stonehenge: Astounding Archaeological Discoveries in Canada, England, and Wales | image = File:Canada's Stonehenge.jpg | caption = Cover | author = Gordon Freeman | country = Canada | language = English | subject = Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel site | publisher = Kingsley Publishing | pub_date = 2009 | media_type = Print | pages = 312 | isbn = 978-0978452612 }} Canada's Stonehenge: Astounding Archaeological Discoveries in Canada, England, and Wales is a 2009 self-published[1] book by chemistry professor Gordon Freeman,[2] in which the author claims that the Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel site, located south of Bassano, Alberta is actually a precise 5,000-year-old calendar. He also discusses Stonehenge, which he believes was also a calendar. The archeological siteThis structure is known by archaeologists as a medicine wheel dated to 3200 BCE (5200 years ago) by careful stratification of known artifact types.[3][4] Medicine wheels are sited throughout the northern United States and southern Canada, specifically South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Most medicine wheels follow the basic pattern of having a center of stone, and surrounding that is an outer ring of stones with "spokes" (lines of rocks) radiating from the center to the four directions (East, South, West, and North). Some medicine wheels have many additional spokes inbetween the cardinal-aligned spokes. Freeman's interpretationGordon Freeman challenged the conventional interpretation in his book, stating that it is actually a 26 square-kilometer stone calendar that marks the changing seasons better than our modern calendar.[5] Freeman argues that the 28 rays of the medicine wheel show that it is a lunar calendar.[5] Unlike Stonehenge, which is constructed of extremely large stones (megaliths), the Majorville site is constructed of small piles of rocks (cairns) which Freeman says are patterned over an extremely large area. He describes it as a complex, spider-web‐like pattern of stones extending over an area of about thirty square kilometres. He views the hilltop centrepiece of the site as a sunburst image made of stones.[2] Freeman believed that those rocks and rock piles were "highly engineered," and could not be natural. He spent 28 years photographing the site at different times of year and looking for astronomical alignments.[5] Academic reactionIt has been noted, however, that the author engages in "speculation that treads close to fiction", often using conditional phrases "such as perhaps, presumably, seems to be, and might have been".[1] University of Alberta archaeologist Jack Ives is cautious about accepting Freeman's ideas. He notes that as the area is an ancient glacial moraine "[y]ou have to be very careful about what you line up". However, he did agree that the radial lines "may certainly reflect solstices and equinoxes. How much more sophisticated beyond that has been a subject of debate".[5]References1. ^1 {{ Citation | last = Yellowhorn | first = Eldon | date = 2010 | title = Review of Canada's Stonehenge: Astounding Archaeological Discoveries in Canada, England, and Wales | journal = Canadian Journal of Archaeology | volume = 34 | issue = 1 | pages = 128–130 | jstor = 41103691 | issn = }} 2. ^1 {{Cite web|url = http://hiddenstonehenge.com/ | title = Hidden Stonehenge {{!}} Gordon Freeman discovers lunar and solar calendars in ancient sites | website = hiddenstonehenge.com | accessdate = 2016-03-11}} 3. ^{{cite book |title=The Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel Site |first=James M. |last=Calder |series=National Museum of Man Series |publisher=Archaeology Survey of Canada |location=Ottawa |year=1977 |id=62}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://wyoshpo.state.wy.us/medwheel.htm |title=Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark |access-date=2008-01-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125062135/http://wyoshpo.state.wy.us/medwheel.htm |archive-date=2008-01-25 |df=dmy-all}} 5. ^1 2 3 {{Cite news |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2009/01/29/alberta_sun_temple_has_5000yearold_calendar.html |title=Alberta sun temple has 5,000 year-old calendar |last=Weber |first=Bob |date=2009-01-29 |newspaper=The Toronto Star |issn=0319-0781 |access-date=2016-03-12 |df=dmy-all |quote=An academic maverick is challenging conventional wisdom on Canada's prehistory by claiming an archeological site in southern Alberta is really a vast, open-air sun temple with a precise 5,000 year-old calendar predating England's Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids.}} External links
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