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On the orientation of Roman towns in Italy [PDF]

, 2007
As is well known, several Roman sources report on the existence of a town foundation ritual, inherited from the Etruscans, which allegedly included astronomical references.
Magli, Giulio
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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, John McHugh, Elizabeth Nagengast-Stevens   +2 more
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Prehistoric Astronomical Observatories and Paleoclimatic Records in Bulgaria Estimate Astroclimate during 4000–4500 BCE: A Critical Assessment

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, Yavor Shopov, Penka Maglova, Ognyan Ognyanov, Lyubomira Raykova   +4 more
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Maria Reiche's line to archaeoastronomy [PDF]

Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013
Maria Reiche was a German mathematician and archaeologist that, from 1940, devoted her life to the study of the Nazca Lines, the most famous Peruvian geoglyphs, gaining recognition and preservation of them. Created by removing the upper most layer of the
Sparavigna, A.C.
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Saying what we mean, meaning what we say: Managing miscommunication in archaeological prospection

Archaeological Prospection, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 307-322, October/December 2024.
Abstract In North America, archaeological prospection has recently undergone a surge in popularity, resulting in higher visibility for both scientific and fringe narratives. This has been partially due to increasingly sensationalized media articles that promote the use of technology to locate overgrown and subsurface features in the landscape.
William T. D. Wadsworth, Stephanie Halmhofer, Kisha Supernant   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preface: Modern Archaeoastronomy: from Material Culture to Cosmology, 23 June 2014, Portsmouth, UK [PDF]

, 2016
The Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2014 was hosted by the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) at the University of Portsmouth.
Brown, D
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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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Observations of red-giant variable stars by Aboriginal Australians

, 2017
Aboriginal Australians carefully observe the properties and positions of stars, including both overt and subtle changes in their brightness, for subsistence and social application. These observations are encoded in oral tradition.
Allen R. H., Anonymous, Aristotle 350 BCE, Bailey J., Bailey J., Bates D., Battiste M., Berndt R. M., Berndt R. M., Bhathal R., Cairns H. C., Clarke P. A., Clarke P. A., Clarke P. A., Clarke P. A., Clunies Ross M., Frew D. J., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Hamacher D. W., Harmanec P., Haynes R. D., Herschel J. F. W., Hoffleit D., Howitt A., Isles J., Jetsu L., Johnson D. D., Johnson D. D., Leaman T. M., Maegraith B., McNight D., Meyer H. A. E., Mountford C. P., North G., Parker K. L., Prober S. M., Taplin G., Tindale N. B., Tindale N. B., Tindale N. B., White I. M., Wilk S. R., Wilk S. R.   +48 more
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The Sun, the Moon, and the Orientation of Baltic Graves: A Mythological Approach to an Archaeological Problem
Solnce, luna i orientacija baltskih pogrebenij: mifologičeskij vzljad na arheologičeskuju problemu

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, Vykintas Vaitkevičius   +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., Khiri, F., Ouknine, L., Lemjidi, A., Asmahri El M.   +4 more
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