World Outside The Window

During the British Neolithic, circa 4000-2500 BC, we witness the appearance of numerous ceremonial and domestic monuments dominating the prehistoric landscape. Providing an absolute total of how many were built during this period is not possible. Undoubtedly, we could be looking at a figure in the thousands. And, if we accept the opinion of archaeologist Andrew Flemming, then the architectural form of these structures was so designed that their appearance visibly indicated the specific types of ritual or other usage that could be legitimately held there. Accordingly, their respective designs would have had to been well thought out: their architecture had to meet the visual and experiential expectations of the people. All in all, one is led to consider the possibility that any style of monument was the result of deliberate planning and that the prehistoric builders were using megalithic mathematics to help them with design. But this is where we hit the major drawback to this assertion which this article attempts to tackle.

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