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Archaeoastronomical analysis of Sarmatian funeral complexes with ditches of Zhuravka burial ground [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy 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]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy 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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Knowledge of the Sky among Indigenous Peoples of the South American Lowlands—First Archaeoastronomical Analyses of Orientations at Mounds in Uruguay

open access: yesLand, 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]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy 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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Image of inverted World Tree on the stone slab and vessels of the Bronze Age [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy 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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Reconstruction of ancient Egyptian sundials [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014
The article presents the results of a study of the design features of vertical and L-shaped ancient Egyptian sundials, developed their models, on the basis of which the reconstruction of the sundial was carried out.
Vodolazhskaya, L.N.
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Muinasobservatooriumite jälgedel - mõnest arheoastronoomia probleemkohast [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2011
The article takes a critical look at archaeoastronomy as a marginalised area of research and dwells upon the so-called “bad examples” with an aim to highlight the methodological reasons why archaeoastronomy is not considered a true science.
Tõnno Jonuks
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The power of the dead in Neolithic landscapes: an agricultural-celestial metaphor in the funerary tradition of the Funnel Beaker Culture in the Sandomierz Upland

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
FBC earthen long barrows were roughly oriented along the East-West axis, with deviations not exceeding the frame of the solar arc. Also, the Sandomierz Group monuments display this general pattern.
Stanislaw Iwaniszewski
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Personification of the Sun, the Moon and the planets in fourteenth century Serbian iconography [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020
This paper investigates the celestial-religious images in fourteenth century Serbian Christian Orthodox iconography, painted in the Byzantine style. The focus of this research is on the fresco of the Sun, the Moon, the planets and the Zodiac, from the ...
Van de moortel-Ilic, D.
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Landscape construction and time reckoning in Iron Age Celtic Iberia

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2016
In this paper, we report on three areas of the Iberian Peninsula that were occupied at least during the Iron Age and the early stages of Romanisation, where observations of astronomical phenomena in the landscape, rock carvings, and Latin inscriptions ...
A. César González-García   +2 more
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