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Bronze Age sundial from Prokletije (Montenegro) [PDF]

Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2021, 9(2), 51-65, 2022
The article presents the results of a study of signs on a Bronze Age slab "Sun stone" discovered at the foot of Maja e Can in Volusnica massif (Prokletije National Park, Montenegro). Studies have shown that the slab is an analemmatic sundial. The "Sun Stone" is more similar in marking to the slabs of the Srubnaya culture: all the cup marks are small ...
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Sundial-water clock of the Bronze Age (Northern Black Sea Region) [PDF]

Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2021, 9(1), 73-86, 2021
This article presents the results of a study of signs on a Bronze Age slab discovered in the vicinity of a heavily plowed mound near the settlement of Pyatikhatki. The slab belongs to the Dolmen archaeological culture. In the course of this research, it was proved that the Pyatikhatki slab is a unique measuring tool, that combines elements of sundial ...
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Mathematical model of inverted analemmatic sundial on the example of Belogorsk sundial of the Bronze Age [PDF]

, 2023
This article proposes a mathematical model of an inverted analemmatic sundial, provides formulas for calculating the coordinates of their hour markers. On the example of the Belogorsk sundial, a method is described for determining the accuracy of time measurement using an inverted analemmatic sundial, in which cup marks are used as hour markers.
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Inverted analemmatic sundial of the Bronze Age [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
This article describes the study of a Bronze Age limestone slab with cup marks, discovered during the archaeological excavations of kurgan 1 of the kurgan grave field Prolom II, located in the Belogorsk region in Crimea. According to the results of the study, it is concluded that the Belogorsk slab is a sundial of about the XV - XII centuries BC and ...
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Interactions In Space For Archaeological Models [PDF]

Advances in Complex Systems, 2012, 15, 1150009, 2011
In this article we examine a variety of quantitative models for describing archaeological networks, with particular emphasis on the maritime networks of the Aegean Middle Bronze Age. In particular, we discriminate between those gravitational networks that are most likely (maximum entropy) and most efficient (best cost/benefit outcomes).
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Topological electronic properties of silicon [PDF]

Phys. Rev. B 102, 195125 (2020), 2017
The central role that materials play in human history is exemplified by the three-age division of prehistory into the stone, bronze, and iron ages. References to our present time as the information age or silicon age epitomizes the important role that this semiconducting material came to play in the development of computers and devices that permeate ...
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Ancient bronze disks, decorations and calendars [PDF]

arXiv, 2012
Recently, it was published that some ancient bronze disks could had been calendars, that is, that their decorations had this function. Here I am discussing an example, the disk of the Trundholm Sun Chariot, proposing a new interpretation of it, giving a calendar of 360 days. Some geometric diagrams concerning the decoration layout are also proposed.
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Marks of heliacal rising of Sirius on the sundial of the Bronze Age [PDF]

arXiv, 2015
The article presents the results of interdisciplinary research made with the help of archaeological, physical and astronomical methods. The aim of the study were analysis and interpretation corolla marks of the vessel of the Late Bronze Age, belonging to Srubna culture and which was found near the Staropetrovsky village in the northeast of the Donetsk ...
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Origins of Megalithic Astronomy in Britain [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
By c. 3000 BC, in the late Neolithic, there had been a significant change in the way people materialized their cosmology across Scotland with the introduction of free-standing stones. These were erected almost until the end of the Bronze Age (Burl 2000, 1993).
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Number pi from the decoration of the Langstrup plate [PDF]

arXiv, 2012
Studies of ancient bronze artifacts can be useful in understanding the progression of human knowledge of mathematics and geometry. Here I discuss the decoration composed by several circles and spirals of the Langstrup belt disk, an artifact of the Bronze Age found in Denmark.
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