Talk:Anne Macaulay

prehistoric geometry
Not sure what is meant by the redlink term prehistoric geometry. Can anyone help? Bjmullan (talk) 23:01, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Along with ancient geometry, relating to constructions such as the parthenon, this is a massive subject that wikipedia hardly touches on at all. Generally because pythagorean mathematics, whether calcluated from triads on a lyre or counted on the petals of a flower, are generally frowned upon having been discovered prior to 400BC-ish. There's a little more about it on the Alexander Thom page regarding the Type A flattened circle, Type B flattened circle and egg design circles, there are however subdivisions with type B modified and all of Macaulay's work fitting it to star patterns (read her book). Also other artefacts like over 300 geometric shaped stones from prehistoric Scotland. It's something that probably comes under the remit of the WikiProject Archaeoastronomy I am trying to get going, it needs careful sourcing before charging on in there, but as Thom said once "They could have drawn any old circle and said, "there's a circle boys", but they didn't..."  Paul Bedson  ❉ talk ❉ 00:48, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks Paul for the insight. I will have to look into that more. Bjmullan (talk) 18:03, 13 May 2011 (UTC)