A Review of Archaeoastronomy and the Maya
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2015 Alexander Parmington
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Archaeoastronomy in South America
Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 2021 .
Corrado, Gustavo Manuel +1 more
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Aastronomical and calendar meaning of the petroglyphs of the dolmen "Dudugush-1". Reconstruction of some cosmological motives in the culture of the dolmen builders of the Western Caucasus [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2021 The article is considered astronomical and calendarian meaning of the petroglyth on the overlapping of the dolmen "Dudugush-1". As shown enclosing in the circle the branches of the saltire note the key points of the year solar cycle (sunrises and sunsets
Kudin, M.I.
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A Nature Deity? The Ṛgvedic Savitṛ Revisited
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2020 The problematic identity of the deity Savitṛ in early Vedic religion has sparked more than a century of discussion. Harry Falk, for instance, argued that this god, whose name literally means “Impeller”, can be identified with the Milky Way and associated
Dominik A. Haas
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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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Clepsydra of the Bronze Age from the Central Donbass [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2015 In the article presents the results of the multidisciplinary study conducted with the help of archaeological, physical and astronomical methods. The aim of the study was to analyze and interpret marks and drawings applied to the surface of the vessel of ...
Vodolazhskaya, L.N. +2 more
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Hypothesis about the astronomic function of the underground well temple of Sardinian type in Bulgaria [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013 A detailed description is presented of the ancient underground well temple of Sardinian type which was found in Bulgaria in 1971 near the village Garlo.
Tsonev, L.V.
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Marks of heliacal rising of Sirius on the sundial of the Bronze Age [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2015 The article presents the results of multidisciplinary study carried out with the help of archaeological and astronomical methods. The aim of the study was to analyze and interpret the signs - elements of the composition, incised on the outer side surface
Vodolazhskaya, L.N. +2 more
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Sanctuary of Eneolithic and Bronze Age in Western Siberia, as a source of astronomical knowledge and cosmological ideas in antiquity [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 In article are considered the revealed astronomical knowledge and cosmological representations of the ancient population of the given territory on the basis of materials of excavation sanctuaries of Eneolit (Savin 1, Slobodchiki 1, Velizhany 2) and of ...
Potemkina, T.M.
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