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
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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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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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Reconstruction of ancient Egyptian sundials [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy 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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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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The sky from the high terrace. study on the orientation of the Ziqqurat in Ancient Mesopotamia [PDF]
, 2016 The ziqqurat is the symbol of the Mesopotamian sacred architecture in the western thought. This monument, standardized at the end of the III millennium BC by the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur, has changed during the history of Mesopotamia its shape ...
NADALI, Davide, Polcaro, Andrea
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Muinasobservatooriumite jälgedel - mõnest arheoastronoomia probleemkohast [PDF]
Mäetagused, 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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Documenta 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]
Archaeoastronomy 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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Ovid, the Fasti and the stars [PDF]
, 2007 According to Quintilian, poetry cannot be fully understood without a good knowledge of the stars. As one example he cites the fact that poets frequently indicate the time of year by the rising and setting of stars and constellations, a device familiar ...
Robinson, M.
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