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Astronomical features of Ural megalithic monuments orientation [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 There is a presence of archaeological monuments of the early and middle Holocene in the middle Trans-Urals, which may be associated with the act of sky survey, determined by this specific landscape.
Viktorova, V.D., Anisimov, N.P.
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Interpreting the apparent lunar symbolism on a Fremont Indian pendant
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2022 The current article examines the apparent lunar iconography engraved on a rhyolite pendant recovered from a 13th century AD, Fremont Indian pithouse village known as "Five Finger Ridge". Symbols etched into the pendant resemble the waxing crescent, full,
John K. Lundwall +2 more
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Quaternary, 2023 Prehistoric astronomical observatories include a specific type of rock-cut monuments from the Mountainous Thrace in Bulgaria, with a specific shape and orientation in space, which are part of the characteristic representatives of the archeoastronomical ...
Alexey Stoev +4 more
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Școala clujeană de astronomie culturală / The School of Cultural Astronomy from Cluj-Napoca
Analele Banatului. Arheologie-Istorie, 2021 In 1952, Professor Gheorghe Chiş from the Astronomical Institute together with the academician Constantin Daicoviciu initiated the idea of the existence of a Dacian calendar by deciphering the sanctuaries in the capital of Dacia at Sarmizegetusa Regia ...
Iharka Szucs-Csillik
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2018 This paper focuses on the predominating east-west orientation of Iron Age graves (5th century BC to the 13th century AD) and the reasons that could have caused the custom.
Daiva Vaitkevičienė +1 more
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Rock art and archaeoastronomy in Morocco: preliminary observations [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018 The purpose of this paper is to make public the exceptional discovery in the province of Essaouira (Morocco) of three petroglyphs engraved with an original subject in Moroccan rock art.
Ibhi,A. +4 more
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Topographic proof of the archaeoastronomic hypothesis about the underground well temple of Sardinian type in Bulgaria [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 In the previous paper about the well temple near Garlo village in Bulgaria we proposed a ritual hypothesis which interprets the temple as a marker of the sun culmination in winter solstice.
Tsonev, L.V.
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The astronomical significance of the clockwise misalignment from cardinal directions in the Maya lowlands [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2014 In this paper we outline the results of our archaeoastronomical study dealing with a number of Mayan settlements located in the lowlands of Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo (Mexico), in order to try to explain the well- known clockwise misalignments ...
Motta, S., Gaspani, A.
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FUNERARY TOWERS CHULLPA IN THE LAUCA RIVER VALLEY: A FIRST ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL ANALYSIS
Anales (Asociación Física Argentina)In this work we employ the methods of archaeoastronomy to analyze the orientation, possibly astronomical, of numerous groups of chullpa funerary towers, mainly from the 12th to 16th centuries, located in the Lauca River valley of the central Bolivian ...
A. Gangui
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Megalithic structures and dolmen orientation in Bulgaria [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013 A review of the main types of megalithic and quasi-megalithic monuments in Bulgaria is presented together with maps of their localization. A large and modern data base about the orientation of 110 Thracian dolmens (XII-VII c. BC) is interpreted in detail.
Tsonev, L.V., Kolev, D.Z.
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