The Origins of the Winter Solstice

I'm not sure it is. For a start, I'd like to say that I definitely don't think Yule was on the winter solstice and I can provide a whole year. Once people start farming and living in one fixed place, then, and they have to rely on the crops and everything like that, that's when suddenly paying really close attention to the exact dates of the sun doing this or that is really important. But if you're constantly following herds of wild animals as a migratory hunter-gatherer, that's not really likely to be an important thing to do as a bit of a waste of time. So I would say that all this kind of major concern with