Megalithic Navigation

Peter Davidson's Research Papers

This site is based upon research conducted by Peter Davidson between 1970 and 1990. During that period, he wrote several research papers that described the potential use of megaliths for marine navigation. You can contact us by clicking here.

See a synopsis in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (IJNA) v39 no2 September 2009

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Megalithic Aids to Navigation 1988

Megalithic Aids to Navigation 1986

Megalithic Aids 86 - The Jigsaw Puzzle

Megalithic Aids 86 - Types of Navigation

Megalithic Aids 86 - Alignments  at Le Menec as a Tide Predictor 

Megalithic Aids 86 - Mensuration

Neolithic & Early Bronze Age Navigation (1st Edition 1974)  

Maps of Megalithic Journeys

We have used Google Maps to chart the kind of journeys that megalithic navigators may have taken.

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The Research Directory

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