Stonehenge the unresolved mystery and debunking calendar theory

Stonehenge is a well-known ancient site it is situated in England, United Kingdom. Some historians contended that it's a neolithic site the purpose of the site is not clear yet as it does not have any specific details regarding the structure. The debate around the ancient tombstone is intense.  Some say it's a religious site, some say it's a place where the location of rocks aligned with the sun and moon, and it could be an ancient calendar, some theory also claims that it's made for ancestors, and even theories regarding healing place is also talk of the town. Certificate III for personalized support (failure) Assignment Help sydney

A prominent astronomer from the USA, Gerald Hawkins asserted that the structure was designed to calculate lunar and solar eclipses.

Archaeologists from Britain, Tim Devil, and Geoffrey Wainwright argued that it was a place for healing purposes as they found some archaeological evidence supporting it.

All the researcher's arguments were denied by some or other experts and the debate on the importance of Stonehenge is still going on. The new view was proposed by astronomers and archaeologists  Giulio Magli and Juan Antonio Belmonte, they denied all the claims made in the path that this ancient headstone was built as a calendar tool.

According to this theory which was published in 2022 in a journal called Antiquity claimed that Stonehenge's stones are twelve in number which denotes every month of the year each stone also represents thirty days and 10 days a long week.

in the newer edition of Antiquity, the experts Magli and Belmonte refused this conclusion.

They said there is no 12-month representing stone structure even though they said that it seems like earlier theory was based on numerology and that is a non-scientific conclusion of the monument.

The major goal of both researchers was to falsify such an interpretation which is not based on real facts although it seems like a conspiracy theory made by some enthusiastic people rather than some experts who claimed that it was a calendar tool.

They accepted the fact that the ancient monument does align with the sun and moon and that the builders do have an understanding of the solar scenario regardless saying that it was made as a calendar tool is irrational.

This earlier paper (2022) illustrates that the monument was a calendar and the inspiration came from the ancient Egyptian calendar then new study experts Magli and Belmonte asserted that it's not possible as the Egyptian calendar has only three hundred sixty-five days which will eventually turn it into waste leap year should be there to align with seasons.

Julian's calendar introduced the idea of leap year that's why the finding is false.

According to Magli and Belmonte most older societies (neolithic to be precise) used lunar calendars that's why they did not have any need to use a calendar device (the exception was there such as Egyptian and Mayan civilizations) which has different types of calendars.

Reference

Yun, T. (2023, March 28). Was Stonehenge a giant calendar? New research suggests maybe not. CTVNews. https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/was-stonehenge-a-giant-calendar-new-research-suggests-maybe-not-1.6332943