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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Archaeoastronomical analysis of Sarmatian funeral complexes with ditches of Zhuravka burial ground [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2017 This article describes the results of archaeoastronomical analysis of funerary complexes with pinnacle ditches from the burial ground of Zhuravka of the Tatsinsky district - a monument to the finale of the late Sarmatian era of the Right Bank Podonya. In
Vodolazhskaya, L.N., Nevsky M.Yu.
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Ancient astronomical instrument from Srubna burial of kurgan field Tavriya-1 (Northern Black Sea Coast) [PDF]
, 2014 The article presents the results of analysis of the spatial arrangement of the wells on the unique slab from Srubna burial of kurgan field Tavriya-1 (Rostov region, Russia) by astronomical methods.
Larenok, Pavel +2 more
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Representations of the Stone Age anglers about the sky (sanctuaries of the Lake Onega) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 In this report the author views the original symbolic images disc-, crescent- and half-moon-shaped with one-two ray-like lines, directed to one aside. These pictures have been carved on capes rock tips of the eastern coast of the Onega Lake together with
Potemkina, T.M.
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Urban Planning in the First Unfortified Spanish Colonial Town: The Orientation of the Historic Churches of San Cristóbal de La Laguna [PDF]
, 2018 The city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain) is of exceptional value as the first unfortified colonial city to follow regular plan - a grid, outlined by straight streets that form squares - in the overseas European ...
Belmonte, Juan Antonio +1 more
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Land, 2023 We analyzed, from a cultural astronomy perspective, the relationship between the orientations of five mound sites and different astronomical events in the lowland region of Uruguay.
Camila Gianotti +4 more
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Arhaeoastronomical analysis of the Levinsadovka sacrificial complex (South Russia) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013 The article presents the results of a study of the unique sacrifice of the Levinsadovka sacrificial complex. On it were found large accumulations of animal bones near the buildings. An analogue of this sacrificial complex in the Northern Black Sea region
Vodolazhskaya, L.N., Larenok, V.A.
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The astronomical orientation of the urban plan of Alexandria [PDF]
, 2011 Alexander the Great founded Alexandria in 331 BC. The newly founded town was conceived as an orthogonal grid based on a main longitudinal axis, later called Canopic Road.
Ferro, Luisa, Magli, Giulio
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Image of inverted World Tree on the stone slab and vessels of the Bronze Age [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2016 The article presents the results of the study of petroglyphs on a unique stone slab discovered near the kurgan 1 of the kurgan field Varvarinsky I (Rostov Oblast, Russia).
Vodolazhskaya, L.N. +2 more
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The development of a Utopian city? Comparing land-and skyscapes in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristobal de la Laguna [PDF]
, 2018 We discuss the peculiar planning of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain), when compared to the nearby and essentially contemporary Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which served as a maritime port of the former city. For
Belmonte, Juan Antonio +1 more
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