Northern Labyrinths as Navigation Network Elements

Cross-disciplinary Researches of Objects of Ancient Heritage on the Example of Stone Labyrinths and Petroglyph

“…communications as flows of matter, energy and information, forming geocultural space (Paranin, 1990(Paranin, , 1998. The navigation concept and the system of methods, developed by the authors, provide for detection of measured quantitative correspondences in hierarchically structured system of ʺcultural objectenclosing space: informational, geocultural, landscape and geographical and spatialʺ (Paranina, 2010, 2011, Paranina & Paranin, 2015. In this article, as an example of interdisciplinary research of objects of ancient heritage, the labyrinths -stone structures and petroglyphs -are considered (Fig.…”

“…In view of the possible positions of the polar circle, we divide stone labyrinths of Northern Europe by polar, circumpolar and temperate zone objects. Features of light conditions largely explain the differences in the structure of objects (figure of objects) (Paranina & Paranin, 2015).…”