Earthworks Open House Focused on Fall Moon Rises

September 2015 time lapse of a lunar alignment at the Octagon State Memorial
 by Timothy Black. Prints available upon request.

October, 3, 2015.

Dr. Richard Shiels, former Director of  the Newark Earthworks Center, has written an informative article for the Newark Advocate about the upcoming Octagon Open House on October 11th
and lunar alignments at Octagon State Memorial, part of the Newark Earthworks.

"The octagon built 2000 years ago in what is today Newark and the octagon built in Chillicothe about the same time both align with all eight of these lunar standstills.

This fall, the moon is at roughly the halfway point of the 18.6 year cycle. The northern and southern maximum alignments occurred at the beginning of the cycle, in 2005 and 2006. The minimums are occurring this fall."

-Dr. Richard Shiels, Newark Advocate.

To read the full article, click here.

We hope to see you there!

For more information,

Visit:

• Our Calendar
• Newark Earthworks
• Ancient Ohio Trail
• High Banks Works, Chillicothe
• Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, National Park Service
• A New and Extended Case for Lunar (and Solar) Astronomy at the Newark Earthworks (PDF available)
• Ray Hively and Robert Horn, Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Volume 38 Issue 1, pg 83-118.
• Last Octagon Open House of 2015!
• October 5, 2015.
• 5 Things You Didn't Think of as Native Technology
• August 6, 2015.
• Celestial Timekeeping
• April 8, 2015.
• Newark's Great Circle History
• October 2, 2014.
• The Archaeoastronomy of the Newark Earthworks
• January 9, 2014.
• A New & Extended Case for Lunar (& Solar) Astronomy at the Newark Earthworks
• July 24, 2013.