For those who wish to take up the challenge it is more of talking up the Polar day/night cause via a surface rotation parallel to the ecliptic plane as a function of the orbital motion of the Earth than talking down axial precession.

The neolithic astronomers of Newgrange and Stonehenge had fixed their monuments to the Solstices which occur today as they did 5,200 years ago and perhaps 4,200 respectively.

http://www.newgrange.com/winter_solstice.htm


The more adventurous would be able to navigate the many issues involved including how the Southern declination on the December Solstice is halted giving the builders a number of days before and after the Solstice to use the Sun's appearance as a light spectacle when that spectacle is impossible on the Equinox when the declination is rapid. It is why the Knowth and other Equinox alignments do not have roofboxes as Newgrange does -

http://www.carrowkeel.com/sites/boyne/jpegs/moonmap.jpg


It means the North and South poles exhibit the same position to the circle of illumination and to the central Sun as they did all those thousands of years ago. It is the Precession of the Equinoxes is a more refined observation that caused Sirius to skip a first annual appearance by 1 day after four cycles of 365 days. The orbital drift was picked up the the 1582 calendar correction as dates had diverged from the solstice and equinox points and were realigned after the correction was made.

Although the Newgrange alignment is of recent origin, had anyone showed up on the December Solstice in 1751 to observed the alignment, they would have been disappointed as the alignment occurred 11 days earlier because they 'enlightened' academics had refused to enact the correction instituted by the Church about 180 years earlier. The slow drift in the orbital position using the proportion of rotations to orbital circuits shows up as the Precession of the Equinoxes just as the larger drift shows up as Sirius skipping a first annual appearance after 4 orbital circuits.

It is not a matter of growing up but growing into the points.

NB - Once astronomers are conceptually bound to the astronomical event where any star close to the orbital plane will skip a first annual appearance after the 4th cycle of 365 days, they are bound to the proportions of rotations to orbital circuits close to 1461 rotations to 4 orbital circuits or 365 1/4 rotations to one circuit. The Precession of the Equinoxes as a result that it is not exactly 365 1/4 rotations per circuit.