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Astronomy and Stonehenge: almost everyone has heard of this connection, so that Stonehenge has to be the almost obligatory starting point for our archaeoastronomical quest.
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Magli, G. (2016). Megalithic Cultures of the Mediterranean. In: Archaeoastronomy. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22882-2_7
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