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Archaeoastronomy in the Khmer Heartland [PDF]
Studies in Digital Heritage, 2017 The heartland of the Khmer empire is literally crowded with magnificent monuments built in the course of many centuries. These monuments include the world-famous "state-temples", such as Angkor Wat, but also many other temples and huge water reservoirs ...
Giulio Magli
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Maria Reiche's line to archaeoastronomy [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013 Maria Reiche was a German mathematician and archaeologist that, from 1940, devoted her life to the study of the Nazca Lines, the most famous Peruvian geoglyphs, gaining recognition and preservation of them. Created by removing the upper most layer of the
Sparavigna, A.C.
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Archaeoastronomy in ancient Helvetia: the theater, the temple and the city of Aventicum (Avenches) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2019 This article presents our discovery of the astronomical orientation of the city of Aventicum, the capital of ancient Roman Helvetia, where the sacred complex formed by the Temple of the Cigognier and the Theater were oriented along the axis that links ...
De Franceschini, M., Veneziano, G.
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Serious Gaming for Virtual Archaeoastronomy
Studies in Digital Heritage, 2020 Many cultures worldwide have left traces of sacred architecture and monuments which often show correlation to astronomical events like solstitial sunrises. Virtual archaeology can be used to explore such orientation patterns using digital reconstructions
Georg Zotti +2 more
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Archaeoastronomy of the Temples of the Bekaa Valley
Heritage, 2021 The Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, is famous worldwide due to the magnificent temple of Heliopolitan Jupiter at Baalbek. In recent years, new research revived the interest in the unsolved problems posed by the Baalbek monuments, including original dating and ...
Giulio Magli
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Exercises In Archaeoastronomy - I - Introduction
, 2018 The full citation for this Article is: Sparavigna, A. C. (2018). Exercises in Archaeoastronomy - I - Introduction. PHILICA Article number 1239.
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
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Archaeoastronomy and Calendar Cities [PDF]
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2016 The use of astronomy for collective purposes, both religious and political, is apparent in the earliest astronomical records, from the evidence for Palaeolithic lunar calendars to megalithic monuments and Mesopotamian celestial-omen reports. This paper will consider the application of the heavens to the organisation of the 'Cosmic State', the human ...
Nicholas Campion
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Archaeoastronomy: The Newport Tower [PDF]
Open Astronomy, 1997 Penhallow William
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Archaeoastronomy: A Sustainable Way to Grasp the Skylore of Past Societies [PDF]
Sustainability, 2019 Antonio César González García +1 more
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A prehistoric Native American pictograph that signals the summer solstice [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2021 The current article examines a 90 cm. tall, prehistoric Native American pictograph painted in red ochre which depicts a red Anthropomorph wearing a “V”-shaped headdress.
McHugh John, Lundwall John, Howells Tom
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