The difference between a site and a monument is that a site consists of multiple monuments. Avdat in Israel is such an example. The site contains multiple monuments. And they are differently oriented, seemingly chaotic, but all orientations match with our poles. A full house, so to speak! The satellite footage below makes that clear. We outlined the monuments of Avdat.
When monuments on a site are reoriented after each crustal deformation, and so are differently oriented, and also match with one of the Poles I to V, we can track their original age with a correlation factor. This means that newer monuments are oriented in a slightly different angle, to one of the younger geo pole positions. The higher the correlation factor, the higher the probability that the site indeed follows the already proven pole positions.
How Avdat’s Monuments Are Oriented

What we also see on Avdat, is that monuments that show a higher degree of degradation, are also more counterclockwise oriented, hence oriented to an older pole. This means that we do not only see a high match with the poles, but also that the older monuments are, they are in a more dilapidated state. That is additional proof that our conclusions are correct. We have not included this additional pattern in our final result.
Low to Medium Quality Stonework

When correlations are high, above 95%, it means that the original age of the foundations are as old as the poles they were oriented to. The original age of the monuments on Avdat varies. The oldest monument is originally 338,000 years old (±2.2%), that correlates with Pole V. The plus/minus age practically means that this pole was stable over a period of 15,000 years. We cannot further refine the age of a monument within a certain pole, and that is because our method has uncovered such huge time frames. Stone is incredibly patient.
The monuments on Avdat, as most ancient monuments around the world, are originally built by lost ancient civilizations, a very long time ago. They were renovated by more recent cultures, and so what archaeologists did is to ignorantly link these monuments solely to these most recent cultures. Orientation, when applied in large numbers like we have done, appears to be a very powerful tool.
All three major monuments on Avdat are counterclockwise oriented, and all three match with a pole. They are even oriented in perfect consecutive order of the poles. That is very unlikely to be the result of coincidence, because we find this on many more ancient sites around the world.
The probability that one monument correlates with one of our poles varies between 75% and 95%, depending of the exact location of the site on our planet. The probability of one site with multiple monuments that are oriented to different matching poles, can go up to even above 99.9% correlation.
When a monument holds more keys – like clear stone arrangements that point to solstice angles that specifically belong to another latitude, hence to the pole it is oriented to – we have found a much higher probability of its true age. We can also express this in a probability factor and that depends on the complexity of the stone arrangements. This has to be looked at for every specific site or monument. For that we need reliable and accurate plans of a site, to study them thoroughly, and to perform our method in all details, and publish our conclusions. Because reliable and accurate plans are often not available, we usually use the orientation correlations for a site with multiple monuments that we distill from satellite images.
| Site Name | Country | Latitude | Longitude | Orientation | Intersection 47.1W Line | Pole |
| Avdat | Israel | 30.7971 | 34.7756 | -21.0 | 72.0 | III |
| Avdat | Israel | 30.7944 | 34.7735 | -30.0 | 64.3 | IV |
| Avdat | Israel | 30.7940 | 34.7752 | -42 | 53.8 | V |
3 out of 3 of the monuments on Avdat correlate with one of the Poles I to V. For this complicated setting, we built a simulator to emulate the probability that such a match could occur coincidentally. The probability for the orientations on Avdat to match with this level with the Poles I to V is 99.80%.
Practically speaking, it means that Avdat follows the Path of Pole over a time frame of more than 100,000 years. We found no indications that after this period new oriented monuments were built.
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