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"Bridging the Gap" through Australian Cultural Astronomy [PDF]
, 2011 For more than 50,000 years, Indigenous Australians have incorporated celestial events into their oral traditions and used the motions of celestial bodies for navigation, time-keeping, food economics, and social structure.
Hamacher, Duane W., Norris, Ray P.
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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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Possibilities of Using Ethnoastronomy in Teaching and Scientific Dissemination Activities
#Tear: Revista de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia, 2023 Abstract: This article aims to investigate the importance of using themes related to the areas of ethnoastronomy and cultural astronomy in teaching and scientific dissemination activities. For this, actions involving research, teaching and extension were articulated.
Alisson Roberto Fonseca +1 more
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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
Belmonte, Juan Antonio +1 more
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Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2015 Concepts of Space, Time, and the Cosmos.- Calendars and Astronomy.- Astronomy and Chronology - Babylonia, Assyria, and Egypt.- Astronomy and Navigation.- Astronomy and Power.- Astronomy and Politics.- Astrology as Cultural Astronomy.- Astronomy, Astrology, and Medicine.- Ancient "Observatories" - A Relevant Concept?
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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 +13 more
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Ethnoastronomy as an academic field: a framework for a South American program [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2011 AbstractWe present some methodological reflections based upon twelve years' experience working in South American ethnoastronomy. The aim is to propose a basis for a possible development plan for ethnoastronomy in this region. Taking as axiomatic that ethnoastronomy is a social science, we discuss issues such as the process of development of an academic
Flavia Pedroza Lima +1 more
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Archaeoastronomy in the Khmer heartland [PDF]
, 2016 The heartland of the Khmer empire is literally crowded by magnificent monuments built in the course of many centuries. These monuments include the world-famous state-temples, such as Angkor Wat, but also many other temples and huge water reservoirs ...
Magli, Giulio
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Ethnoastronomy In Maritime Activities: An Analysis
The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2019 This paper aims to examine the relationship between ethnoastronomy with maritime activities. Ethnoastronomy here refers to phenomenon like solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, and the lunar cycles, while maritime activity refers to the phenomenon of the tides, the waves, the wind, a bright and a dark moon, and so on.
Mohd Shukri Hanapi*, Shahir Akram Hassan
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Urban Planning in the First Unfortified Spanish Colonial Town: The Orientation of the Historic Churches of San Cristóbal de La Laguna [PDF]
, 2018 The city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain) is of exceptional value as the first unfortified colonial city to follow regular plan - a grid, outlined by straight streets that form squares - in the overseas European ...
Belmonte, Juan Antonio +1 more
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