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Analemmatic and horizontal sundials of the Bronze Age (Northern Black Sea Coast) [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013
The paper presents the results of a study of unique slab with images of Srubna burial of tumuli group Popov Yar-2 (Ukraine) and slab of Srubna burial of tumulus field Tavriya-1 (Russia). A distinctive feature of the images is the orderliness and symmetry
Vodolazhskaya, L.N.
doaj   +1 more source

A vueltas con el gnomon. Buscando soluciones a problemas

open access: yesEnseñanza de las Ciencias, 2014
Son frecuentes las aproximaciones cualitativas e intuitivas que se hacen en la escuela sobre el movimiento aparente del Sol por el firmamento que tratan de proporcionar al alumnado observaciones para que construya un modelo del sistema Sol-Tierra.
Valentín Gavidia Catalán
doaj   +3 more sources

Kako vemo, da so stari Slovani poznali gnomone?

open access: yesStudia Mythologica Slavica, 2022
Pokončni stebri so tudi del mitične pokrajine starih Slovanov. Na dejstvo, da je bil tak steber uporabljen kot gnomon, je mogoče sklepati iz obstoja učinkov njegovega delovanja, ki jih najdemo v pokrajini: smeri neba, datumsko pomembni azimuti sončnega ...
Andrej Pleterski
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Cuestiones de práctica de Geometría y de Goniometría para el trazado de la orientación en los cenobios hispánicos (siglos IX-XII)

open access: yesInformes de la Construccion, 2022
La primera operación de un edifico sacro cristiano es su orientación. Las liturgias (s. IX-XII) determinan una alineación (E-O), la precisión de algunas iglesias, con Az muy próximo a 90º y con una altura del horizonte (ASS) > 0º, indican la utilización
Josep Lluis i Ginovart   +1 more
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Inverted analemmatic sundial of the Bronze Age [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2022
This article describes the study, using the methods of digital and computational archeology, 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 ...
L.N. Vodolazhskaya
doaj   +1 more source

The prototype of ancient analemmatic sundials (Rostov Oblast, Russia) [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2016
The article presents the results of a study of petroglyphs on a unique stone slab discovered near the kurgan 1 of the kurgan field Varvarinsky I (Rostov Oblast, Russia).
Vodolazhskaya, L.N.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genome and evolution of Prosopis alba Griseb., a drought and salinity tolerant tree legume crop for arid climates

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 5, Issue 6, Page 933-947, November 2023., 2023
Society anticipates a world in which more food and fiber must be produced at warmer temperatures, which, on the contrary, have greater constraints on the use of water and fertilizers. Tree legumes are often the climax vegetation on the semi‐arid and arid lands, covering ~25% of the planet, but the knowledge of their genomes is limited.
Wenqian Kong   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Los petrograbados y la técnica del gnomon como registro solar de marcadores astronómico-calendáricos en sitios del centro-norte de Mesoamérica

open access: yesBulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2020
This proposal addresses the study of stone engravings and the implementation of gnomon as a technique that specifies precise orientations, solar dates and associations between the motifs recorded in different rocky matrices at a pair of prehispanic ...
Omar Cruces Cervantes
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of five environmentally responsive gene families in a pine‐feeding sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023
We examine the predictability of gene family size changes in the pine tree specialist Neodiprion lecontei. Overall, our results are consistent with predictable gene family expansions and contractions in response to novel selection pressures. Abstract A central goal in evolutionary biology is to determine the predictability of adaptive genetic changes ...
Kim L. Vertacnik   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Harold C. Ernst Collection of Portable Sundials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A catalog of sundials from the Harold C. Ernst Collection of Portable Sundials, and a handy reference book on the subject of portable sundials. The sundial is the most ancient scientific instrument to come down to us unchanged.
Mayall, Margaret W., Mayall, R. Newton
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