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	Circle
		Circle, Alaska Circle is a town located in 2000 census, the population of the town is 100.
		Circle segment The geometric concept of a circle segment is an area of a secant.
		Dupont Circle Dupont Circle is a Washington, D.C, at the intersections of Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Connecticut Avenue,...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/circle.html (1555 words)

	Stone circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A unique form of circle, the recumbent stone circle is to be found in North East Scotland, where the largest stone is on its side.
		The earliest circles were erected around five thousand years ago during the Neolithic period and may have evolved from earlier burial mounds which often covered timber or stone mortuary houses.
		Stone circles have often been associated with the druids, but they were abandoned long before druidism came to Britain, and there is no evidence that they were ever used by the druids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stone_circle (864 words)

	UFO Germany to reopen 6,800-year-old mystery circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Goseck has been dubbed the German Stonehenge, though it is twice as old as the Stonehenge megalithic circle in southern England and has no stones.
		The Goseck Circle was apparently erected by Europe's first civilization, long before the cultures of Mesopotamia or the pyramids of Egypt, and is one of the best studied of 150 monumental sites arrayed through Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia.
		The Goseck Circle is claimed to have been a sort of calendar that told the people farming the fertile plain when it was time to begin counting the days till spring planting.
	www.ufoarea.com /aas_germany.html (613 words)

	Info and facts on 'Stone circle' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nor should they be confused with earlier rings, such as the Goseck circle (additional info and facts about Goseck circle) in Saxony-Anhalt (additional info and facts about Saxony-Anhalt), that may have served similar religious/calendrical/astronomical purposes, though at a much earlier epoch.
		Prehistoric stone circles are megalithic (additional info and facts about megalithic) monuments found almost exclusively in the British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic), with two atypical examples known in Brittany (A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay).
		The earliest circles were erected around five thousand years ago during the Neolithic (Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere)) period and may have evolved from earlier burial mounds which often covered timber or stone mortuary houses.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/St/Stone_circle.htm (718 words)

	THENRAL WORLD NEWS
		"Goseck and the sky disk show the same astronomical realizations, one are large wood plant and the other one a handy metal disk", say fitters.
		Goseck lies only 25 kilometers far away from the discovery site of the disk, which as archaeological sensation find is considered and which oldest concrete star illustration of the world shows.
		The plant in Goseck is located in a row with approximately 200 comparable before-historical plants of the European young stone age and bronze Age in Central Europe.
	www.thenralworldnews.com /index.pl?record=2604 (534 words)

	Goseck circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Not all precisely laid-out Neolithic and Bronze Age European religious/calendrical/astronomical circles were laid out as stone circles of megaliths or standing stones, of which Stonehenge is an atypical example.
		Though it precedes the final stage of Stonehenge by three millennia, the press has unfortunately dubbed Goseck "the German Stonehenge." A German website, for instance, crows "Discovery of the German Stonehenge proves that the Germans were at least as advanced as the British in the Stone Age" [1].
		The circle at Goseck is one of more than 200 carefully dug ring-ditches that have been identified in aerial surveys, though scarcely ten per cent have been professionally investigated.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/goseck_circle (620 words)

	Stonehenge
		There is some debate about the age of the stone circle, but most archaeologists think that it was mainly constructed between 2500 BC and 2000 BC.
		Within the outer edge of the enclosed area was a circle of 56 pits, known as Aubrey holes after John Aubrey, the seventeenth century antiquarian who first identified them.
		The stones were dressed and fashioned with mortice and tenon joints before 30 were erected as a 30m diameter circle of standing stones with a 'lintel' of 29 stones resting on top.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Stonehenge.html (3135 words)

	Goseck circle bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Goseck circle is a set of concentric ditches in the district of Weissenfels in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany 75 meters (225 feet) across, that was called the earliest ritual site of Central Europe when it was first published in August 2003.
		Not all precisely laid-out Neolithic and Bronze Age European religious/calendrical/astronomical circles were laid out as stone circles of megaliths or standing stones, of which Stonehenge is the classic example.
		Though it precedes the final stage of Stonehenge by three millenia, the press has unfortunately dubbed Goseck "the German Stonehenge." A German website, for instance, crows "Discovery of the German Stonehenge proves that the Germans were at least as advanced as the British in the Stone Age" [1].
	www.elexi.de /en/g/go/goseck_circle.html (808 words)

	Germany reopens 6,800-year-old mystery circle - World News - Webindia123.com
		Germany has constructed a replica of a mysterious wooden circle that is believed to be a temple dedicated to the sun and built by a lost culture dating back 6,800 years.
		The circle of posts, built on a flat river plain at Goseck south of here in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt, has mystified scientists since its discovery in 1991 by an archaeologist studying the landscape from air.
		The Goseck Circle was apparently erected by Europe's first civilization long before the cultures of Mesopotamia or the pyramids of Egypt and is one of the best studied of 150 monumental sites found in Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia.
	news.webindia123.com /news/showdetails.asp?id=205312&n_date=20051230&cat=World (579 words)

	Goseck circle - TheBestLinks.com - Archaeology, Bronze Age, Lunar calendar, Megalith, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Goseck circle, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Lunar calendar, Megalith, Neolithic...
		The date of the circle is established in the most usual way, by potsherds at the site, whose linear designs, when compared to standard chronologies of pottery styles, suggest that the observatory was built ca 4900 BCE.
		Though it precedes the final stage of Stonehenge by three millennia, the press has unfortunately dubbed Goseck "the German Stonehenge." A German website, for instance, crows "Discovery of the German Stonehenge proves that the Germans were at least as advanced as the British in the Stone Age" [1] (http://www.campus-germany.de/english/10.1936.1.38.html).
	www.thebestlinks.com /Goseck_circle.html (614 words)

	Talk:Stone circle - TheBestLinks.com - British Isles, Callanish, Carnac, Nebra skydisk, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Prehistoric stone circles of the type I am discussing are unique to the British Isles not just Britain, aside from the two atypical examples in Brittany I have already mentioned.
		Stone circles with contemporary or earlier burials in the middle include Stenness which has evidence of a wooden mortuary building within the ring, the cairn in the centre of Ballynoe, and Long Meg and her Daughters once had two cairns in its centre but they are now lost due to over-enthusiastic eighteenth century digging.
		He is keen to illustrate that that these early structures and stone circles are the remains of similar attempts to enclose and 'neutralise' the dead.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Talk__3A__Stone_circle.html (1322 words)

	7,000 years old German “Stonehenge” predates site in England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The circle represents the remains of the world’s oldest astronomical observatory.
		It was discovered by the town of Goseck, nestled in the district of Weissenfels in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
		Although aerial surveys have demarcated 200-odd similar prehistoric circles scattered across Europe, the Goseck structure is the oldest and best preserved of the 20 excavated thus far, and it is the first circle whose function is evident.
	www.thefab.net /topics/culture_history/hg06_german-stonehenge_01.htm (871 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Stonehenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Within the outer edge of the enclosed area was dug a circle of 56 pits, each around 1m in diameter (13), known as the Aubrey holes after John Aubrey, the seventeenth century antiquarian who was thought to have first identified them.
		The stones were dressed and fashioned with mortise and tenon joints before 30 were erected as a 33 m (108 ft) diameter circle of standing stones with a 'lintel' of 30 stones resting on top.
		In November 2004, a 7 m diameter circle of postholes was found in Russia and publicised as the Russian Stonehenge.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Stonehenge (6628 words)

	Celestial Observatories
		A strange circle formation has been discovered at the mouth of the Miami River in what could be signs of an ancient culture.
		Archeologists say the perfect circle measuring 37.5 feet in diameter, with 24 irregular cut basins, ranging in size from one to three feet, may have an "astronomical purpose" as it has an obvious east-west alignment.
		John Ricisak, the dig's field director, said local archaeologists believe the circle to be 500 to 800 years old because of a specific type of pottery found nearby.
	www.crystalinks.com /observa.html (3924 words)

	Invisible College
		The circle represents the remains of the world's oldest observatory, dating back 7,000 years.
		Archaeologists reported the Goseck circle's identity and age this past August.
		On the winter solstice, someone at the center of the circles would see the sun rise and set through the southern gates.
	invisiblecollege.blogspot.com /2003/12/german-stonehenge-marks-oldest.html (205 words)

	Breaking News!
		It depicts a crescent moon, a circle that was probably the full moon, a cluster of seven stars interpreted to represent the Pleiades, scattered other stars and three arcs, all picked out in gold leaf from a background rendered violet-blue--apparently by applying rotten eggs.
		To an observer standing at the center of the circle, the sun rises and sets through the southern gates (above, at top) on the winter solstice; the northern gate's function is unknown.
		Similar skeletons--several with cut marks or with arrowheads in their necks--have turned up in other circles, but archaeologists cannot agree on whether they attest to human sacrifices or to uncommonly gory funeral rites.
	www.neara.org /MiscReports/12-08a-03.htm (852 words)

	Stone Pages Archaeo News: Germany reopens 6,800-year-old circle
		At the winter solstice this week, Germany opened a replica of a mysterious wooden circle that is believed to be a temple of the sun built by a lost culture 6,800 years ago.
		Goseck has been dubbed the German Stonehenge, though it is twice as old as the Stonehenge megalithic circle and has no stones.
		The Goseck Circle was apparently erected by Europe's first civilization, and is one of the best studied of 150 monumental sites arrayed through Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia.
	www.stonepages.com /news/archives/001650.html (456 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Circle in Germany Oldest Observatory, Linked to Nebra Disc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The sleepy town of Goseck, nestled in the district of Weissenfels in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt shimmers under the brutal summer heat, as residents seek respite in the shade.
		But, Goseck isn't merely a "calendar construction," Schlosser explains, "but rather is clearly a sacred building." Archeologists have found plenty of evidence to prove that Goseck was a place of prehistoric cult worship.
		They theorize that both the Goseck observatory and the Nebra disc indicate that astronomical knowledge was tied to a mythological-cosmological world view right from the beginning.
	www.megalithic.co.uk /article.php?sid=2146411248 (1375 words)

	Reconstructed Stone-Age circle in Germany catches sun's rays
		Goseck, Germany - A reconstructed 'temple of the sun' in Germany caught the morning rays of the sun through its eastern gate early Wednesday, just as it is believed to have done after it was built by a lost culture 6,800 years ago.
		Archaeologists say the 75-metre-diameter Goseck Circle, on a flat river plain in eastern Germany, was built to help Stone-Age priests discern the solstice, the point in the year when the days begin to become longer and farmers look forward to spring planting.
		The villagers of modern Goseck and visitors from all over Germany gathered at the site for its official opening, seven months after workmen began cutting 2,300 oak poles in a nearby forest and erecting them in two concentric circles at the site.
	science.monstersandcritics.com /news/article_1070793.php/Reconstructed_Stone-Age_circle_in_Germany_catches_suns_rays (638 words)

	Articles - Henge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		British enthusiasts, such as the editors of the Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology, claim that henges are unique to the British Isles and that similar, much earlier, circles on the Continent, such as Goseck circle are not proper "henges".
		They should not be confused with the stone circles which are sometimes present within them.
		Stone circles are also found within a few henges, with at least six cases identified in England.
	www.fanice.com /articles/Henge (1420 words)

	Scientific American: Circles for Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A vast, shadowy circle sits in a flat wheat field near Goseck, Germany.
		Although aerial surveys have demarcated 200-odd similar circles scattered across Europe, the Goseck structure is the oldest and best preserved of the 20 excavated thus far, and it is the first circle whose function is evident.
		The two opposing arcs, which run along the rim, are 82.5 degrees long and mark the sun's positions at sunrise and sunset.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=000CDCCF-1783-1FA8-95ED83414B7F0000 (788 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Stone circle
		From the eighth to the twelfth century in Senegambia stone circles were built as funerary monuments.
		More than a thousand are known, including the Sine-Saloum stone circles in central Senegal.
		Prehistoric stone circles are megalithic monuments found almost exclusively in the British Isles, with two atypical examples known in Brittany.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Stone_circle (598 words)

	Stone Pages Archaeo News: Additional details on Goseck circle
		A vast, shadowy circle sits in a flat wheat field near Goseck, Germany; first spotted by airplane, the circle is 75 meters wide.
		The Goseck structure is the oldest and one of the best preserved circles whose function is evident.
		Perhaps the observatory's most curious aspect is that the roughly 100-degree span between the solstice gates corresponds with an angle on a 3,600-year-old bronze disk unearthed on a hilltop 25 kilometers away, near the town of Nebra.
	www.stonepages.com /news/archives/000475.html (577 words)

	zone
		A circle, star or other shape used for the blueprint is divided into eight spheres of influence with the ninth area as a central gathering "magnet" and energy source.
		When they camped under their banners in the circle around the Ark of The Covenant, they set a model in the earthy region for the perfect architectural order for sacred space.
		She is considered in most circles the greatest living woman athlete.
	www.thediviningnation.com /zone.htm (4208 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Sonnenobservatorium Goseck [Kreisgrabenanlage Goseck] Henge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Germany has opened a replica of a mysterious wooden circle that is believed to be a temple of the sun built by a lost culture 6,800 years ago.
		Two groups of torchbearers went from the northern gate between the two rings to the gates of the rise and the set of the sun at winter solstice, re-united inside the circle and left through the northern gate.
		After that the circle were enlightend by fireworks, then the fire-dancers made their way into the circle.
	www.megalithic.co.uk /article.php?sid=13239 (1097 words)

	Bronze Disk and Oldest Observatory Discovered in Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In a wheat field near Goseck, Germany lies a vast circle, the remains of an ancient observatory built 7,000 years ago: the oldest known attempts of humans to understand the cosmos.
		The circle is 75 meters (225 feet) wide and was spotted by airplane.
		Similar human skeletons have been found at other stone circles and archaeologists are unsure whether this represents human sacrifice or funeral rites.
	starryskies.com /articles/2003/12/german.observatory.html (658 words)

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