Tag: Atlantic Europe
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How wrong is your clock?
For 76% of the world’s people the clock runs ahead of the sun. I measured the gap everywhere, and found out why winter mornings in Galicia stay dark until after nine.
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The Megalith Highway
From Portugal to Orkney, Neolithic farmers built the same great stone tombs. I mapped 13,280 megalithic monuments and tested, three ways, whether the idea travelled by sea.
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The High Ones
The Brigantes of northern England and the Brigantium of A Coruña share a name. A data history of the Celtic word for ‘high’, from -briga hillforts to burg, borough and Berg, and what it says about a Galicia–Yorkshire connection.
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Rings in the Rock
4,584 carved rocks and one shared sign. A data history of cup-and-ring carvings on Europe’s Atlantic edge: when they were made, where they are, the maths of a ring, and what the ancient DNA says about who carved them.
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The Triskell Boom: how an ancient spiral became a modern Celtic badge
The triple spiral is sold as an ancient Celtic sign of the Atlantic coast. Archaeological finds, Google Books and OpenStreetMap tell a newer story: an old symbol that became a Breton and Galician badge within living memory.
