Talk:Goseck Circle

message: What about the four excavated graves from nearby Eulau, dated to ~2600 BC ?  Perhaps they merit some sort of link ?
Who are these 'British loyalists' who claim to dispute the dating of the Gosek Circle? Googling "Goseck circle" produces no results at all. A reference would be appreciated. Fondest wishes adamsan  08:01, 8 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: As no response from the author is forthcoming, I shall remove the unsubstantiated (and rather eccentric) assertions in the article. adamsan  19:18, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

text: Done as requested. Nagelfar 08:56, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

text: "although many British enthusiasts refuse the use of the term henge for anything outside Britain. (See henge.)" : The term of 'henge' should be explained in archaeological terms (archaeologically, is Goseck a 'henge'? Or not?) and POV removed.--89.49.33.72 17:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the bit about British enthusiasts, as it is obsolete and the current definition doesn't say only in Britain, but does still call for a bank. I've also removed the bit about the Nebra disk as that is what, 3500 years younger than the Gosseck Circle?  I'm still worried about the calendar stuff, looks like speculation,Doug Weller (talk) 10:39, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: The diagram of the Goseck circle describes the two southern entrances as indicating the rise and set of sun at the winter soltice whereas the linked wikipedia article about the Goseck circle says that these entrances mark the sun's position at the summer and winter solstices. This discrepancy needs to be resolved. 92.21.59.90 (talk) Moved from article by Thesevenseas (talk) 19:34, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: the image file says in german: "Sonnenobservatorium von Goseck. Aufsicht mit Darstellung von Sonnenauf- und untergang zur Wintersonnende". loosely translated: "Solar Observatory of Goseck. Supervision with representation of sunrise and sunset for Winter solstice." this does not jive with the Discovery section in the goseck article. i am moving this discussion from the  winter solstice talk page to the goseck circle talk page. please update Talk:winter solstice if a conclusion is reached99.140.187.120 (talk) 17:50, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sunrise and sunset of winter solstice Vs Summer and winter solstices

message: The site is often described as a "solar observatory". But this happens mostly in shoddy and  journalistic sources.
Technically, anyone watching a sunrise is engaged in "solar observation". But the term is altogether too grand, and suggests some sort of pseudoarchaeological fringe theory. 
What was "observed" was not the Sun as a heavenly body (which the modern term "solar observatory" would imply), e.g. the sun spots, spectrum, etc. The "observation" is limited to marking the point of sunrise/set on solstice days. 
Thousands of churches are aligned towards these points without being called "solar observatory". 
I appreciate that this is significant in the history of astronomy because it is the first such alignment known, ever. 
It is still jarring to throw around misleading descriptions like  "solar observatory". 
The archaeologists mostly avoid doing this. The Germans have the very fitting term of Kalenderbauten, "a structure built with the purpose of serving as a calendar".  --dab (𒁳) 15:03, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The English translation of "Kalenderbauten"; is that perhaps "solar observatory"? The churches that you mention are already called "churches". To change their name might offend some. For all we know, this circle could have been a temple, but "solar observatory" is all that we can assume. 
Kortoso (talk) 18:41, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
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message: This sentence seems a bit unclear.
"Excavators also found the remains of what may have been ritual fires, animal and human bones, and a headless skeleton near the southeastern gate...."
The words "what may have been" could refer to all the things listed, so are the human bones not actually proven to be human? If they are then that phrase should be moved to after the items that are confirmed and then,ritual fires' included at the end of the sentence. 
86.128.240.4 (talk) 01:21, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phrasing