I recently came across an article by Brian Thomas, M.S. "Were Stone Age Britons Trigonometry Experts?" which referenced a news story "Did ancient man use 5,000-year-old travel chart to navigate across Britain" The news story described how Tom Brooks, an amateur historian, analyzed 1,500 prehistoric sites in southern England and Wales and was able to connect all of them to at least two other sites using isosceles triangles (triangles with two sides the same length).
What is amazing about this is that the "sides of some of the triangles are over 100 miles across, yet the distances are accurate to within 100 metres. You cannot do that by chance."
Tom Brooks stated, 'So advanced, sophisticated and accurate is the geometrical surveying now discovered, that we must review fundamentally the perception of our Stone Age forebears as primitive, or conclude that they received some form of external guidance.'
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