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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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Landscape construction and time reckoning in Iron Age Celtic Iberia

Documenta 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, Marco V. García Quintela, Juan A. Belmonte   +2 more
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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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An introductory view on archaeoastronomy [PDF]

, 2016
Archaeoastronomy is still a marginalised topic in academia and is described by the Sophia Centre, the only UK institution offering a broader MA containing this field, as ‘the study of the incorporation of celestial orientation, alignments or symbolism in
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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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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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Discovery of an old nova remnant in the Galactic globular cluster M 22 [PDF]

, 2019
A nova is a cataclysmic event on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary system that increases the overall brightness by several orders of magnitude. Although binary systems with a white dwarf are expected to be overabundant in globular clusters (GCs ...
Bacon, Roland, Brinchmann, Jarle, Dreizler, Stefan, Giesers, Benjamin, Göttgens, Fabian, Husser, Tim-Oliver, Kamann, Sebastian, Kollatschny, Wolfram, Monreal-Ibero, Ana, Roth, Martin M., Schmidt, Kasper B., Weilbacher, Peter M., Wendt, Martin, Wisotzki, Lutz   +13 more
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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
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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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