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- Cursus abstract "Cursus (plural 'cursūs' or 'cursuses') was a name given by early British archaeologists such as William Stukeley to the large parallel lengths of banks with external ditches which they thought were early Roman athletic courses, hence the Latin name cursus, meaning \"course\". Cursus monuments are now understood to be Neolithic structures and represent some of the oldest prehistoric monumental structures of the British Isles. Relics found within them show that they were built between 3400 and 3000 BC. Over fifty have been identified via aerial photography while many others have doubtless been obliterated by farming and other subsequent landscaping activities.They range in length from 50 yards to almost 6 miles and the distance between the parallel earthworks can be up to 100 yards. Banks at the terminal ends enclose the cursus.Contemporary internal features are rare and it has been traditionally thought that the cursuses were used as processional routes. They are often aligned on and respect the position of pre-existing long barrows and bank barrows and appear to ignore difficulties in terrain. The Dorset Cursus, the longest known example, crosses a river and three valleys along its course across Cranborne Chase and is close to the henge monuments at Knowlton. It has been conjectured that they were used in rituals connected with ancestor worship, that they follow astronomical alignments or that they served as buffer zones between ceremonial and occupation landscapes. More recent studies have reassessed the original interpretation and argued that they were in fact used for ceremonial competitions. Finds of arrowheads at the terminal ends suggest archery and hunting were important to the builders and that the length of the cursus may have reflected its use as a proving ground for young men involving a journey to adulthood. Anthropological parallels exist for this interpretation.Examples include the four cursuses at Rudston in Yorkshire, that at Fornham All Saints in Suffolk, the Cleaven Dyke in Perthshire and the Dorset cursus. A notable example is the Stonehenge Cursus, within sight of the more famous stone circle, on land belonging to The National Trust's Stonehenge Landscape.".
- Cursus thumbnail Stonehenge_Cursus.jpg?width=300.
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- Cursus wikiPageExternalLink fieldnotes.
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- Cursus wikiPageLength "4579".
- Cursus wikiPageOutDegree "33".
- Cursus wikiPageRevisionID "676248902".
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Aberdeenshire.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Aerial_archaeology.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Aerial_photography.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Anthropology.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Archaeology.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Avenue_(archaeology).
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Bank_barrow.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Monument_types.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Stone_Age_Britain.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Cleaven_Dyke.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Cranborne_Chase.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Cursus_(classical).
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Cursus_publicus.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Dorset.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Dorset_Cursus.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Fetteresso_Castle.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Fornham_All_Saints.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Knowlton_Circles.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Long_barrow.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink National_Trust_for_Places_of_Historic_Interest_or_Natural_Beauty.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Neolithic.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Perthshire.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Ritual.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Rudston.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Scotland.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Stonehenge_Cursus.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Stonehenge_Landscape.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Suffolk.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink William_Stukeley.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink Yorkshire.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink File:Dorset_cursus_terminal_on_thickthorn_down.jpg.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLink File:Stonehenge_Cursus.jpg.
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Cursus".
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Neolithic archaeological feature".
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLinkText "cursus track".
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLinkText "cursus".
- Cursus wikiPageWikiLinkText "cursuses".
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- Cursus wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Prehistoric_technology.
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- Cursus subject Category:Monument_types.
- Cursus subject Category:Stone_Age_Britain.
- Cursus hypernym Name.
- Cursus type Monument.
- Cursus type Type.
- Cursus type Monument.
- Cursus type Type.
- Cursus comment "Cursus (plural 'cursūs' or 'cursuses') was a name given by early British archaeologists such as William Stukeley to the large parallel lengths of banks with external ditches which they thought were early Roman athletic courses, hence the Latin name cursus, meaning \"course\". Cursus monuments are now understood to be Neolithic structures and represent some of the oldest prehistoric monumental structures of the British Isles.".
- Cursus label "Cursus".
- Cursus sameAs Q452212.
- Cursus sameAs Cursus.
- Cursus sameAs Cursus.
- Cursus sameAs Cursus.
- Cursus sameAs Cursus_(archeologia).
- Cursus sameAs m.03046k.
- Cursus sameAs Q452212.
- Cursus wasDerivedFrom Cursus?oldid=676248902.
- Cursus depiction Stonehenge_Cursus.jpg.
- Cursus isPrimaryTopicOf Cursus.