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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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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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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"Bridging the Gap" through Australian Cultural Astronomy [PDF]
, 2011 For more than 50,000 years, Indigenous Australians have incorporated celestial events into their oral traditions and used the motions of celestial bodies for navigation, time-keeping, food economics, and social structure.
Hamacher, Duane W., Norris, Ray P.
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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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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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