Tag: Prehistory
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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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Is there a barrow in Barrow?
Old English beorg meant a mound or a hill, and gives us the word barrow. I tested 129 English places named from it against 6,100 protected burial mounds. Mostly, it meant hill.
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Within Sight: could Britain’s hillforts see each other?
I traced 169,271 lines of sight between Britain and Ireland’s 4,147 hillforts. Most can see another, and they see each other more than nearby hills do, but good views, not signalling, explain almost all of it.
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The Famous Few
Britain and Ireland have 4,147 hillforts. Eleven of them take half of all Wikipedia reading. A data study of which ancient sites get attention, and why: size, castles, archaeologists and editors.
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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.
