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A Possible Astronomical Alignment marking Seasonal Transitions at Listoghil, Sligo, Ireland
Internet Archaeology, 2012 Listoghil, the central monument and focal point of the Carrowmore passage tomb complex close to Sligo in north-west Ireland, has been ruined, excavated and eventually partially restored. However, the chamber is preserved in its original position.
Pádraig Meehan
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2019 We present a geometric-astronomical correlation between the rose window on the main façade and the labyrinth of Chartres cathedral. This correlation existed throughout the building’s construction—epoch J1200–.
Blas Herrera +2 more
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Religions, 2018 This paper proceeds from the concurrent interpretation of two distinct, apparently unrelated disciplinary contexts, at the crossroads of the positivism of archaeology and the imaginary world of literature.
Simon Crook
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Stone observatory at Bric Pinarella (Finale Ligure, Italy) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2017 This paper reports the latest findings on the stone observatory of Bric Pinarella (Finale Ligure, Savona, northern Italy), first described in 2006 at the conference of the Italian Society of Archaeoastronomy (SIA).
Codebo, M., De Santis, H., Pesce, G.L.
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Archaeoastronomical analysis of the master plan of Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2019 The article describes the study of the VDNH complex in Moscow using archaeoastronomy methods. The analysis concerns the orientation of the two main alleys of VDNH and the two most important buildings at the northwestern end of these alleys.
Yulemaante, T.
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2012: The End of the World as We Know It? [PDF]
, 2013 Many so-called “2012 doomsayers theorists,” such as John Major Jenkins and Jose Arguelles successfully convinced a portion of the modern Western world that the ancient Maya had predicted the end of the world.
French, Evelyn
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Identifying seasonal stars in Kaurna astronomical traditions
, 2015 Early ethnographers and missionaries recorded Aboriginal languages and oral traditions across Australia. Their general lack of astronomical training resulted in misidentifications, transcription errors, and omissions in these records.
Hamacher, Duane W.
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Comet and Meteorite Traditions of Aboriginal Australians
, 2014 Of the hundreds of distinct Aboriginal cultures of Australia, many have oral traditions rich in descriptions and explanations of comets, meteors, meteorites, airbursts, impact events, and impact craters. These views generally attribute these phenomena to
AWR Bevan +9 more
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Reconstruction of vertical and L-shaped ancient Egyptian sundials and methods for measuring time
, 2014 The article presents the results of the study of design features of vertical and L-shaped ancient Egyptian sundials. With the help of astronomical methods were developed their models, based on which the reconstruction of a sundial was held.
Vodolazhskaya, Larisa
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