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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 73-90, April 2025.In the Ik mountains in Uganda, only few old people still have the skills to ‘see time’ with sundials. Common ways of knowing time and age now include phones and ID cards in digital registers. I follow the elder seer Komol to explore how changing the measures of time influences the experience of time and age. How do being a ‘time being’ and ideas about ‘
Lotte Meinert
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Marks of heliacal rising of Sirius on the sundial of the Bronze Age [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2015 The article presents the results of multidisciplinary study carried out with the help of archaeological and astronomical methods. The aim of the study was to analyze and interpret the signs - elements of the composition, incised on the outer side surface
Vodolazhskaya, L.N. +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 5-18, April 2025.What can we learn about temporality by studying different ways of measuring time, institutional time regimes, and (a)typical experiences and creations of time when growing older? This introduction sets perspectives on this question from the anthropologies of ageing, ethics, and temporality.
Lone Grøn, Lotte Meinert
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Journal of Mosaic Research, 2009 A cross-section of daily life takes place on two pieces of mosaics in Hatay Museum. On both pieces there is a man figure with beard trying to catch the dinner.
Barış SALMAN
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Measuring the eccentricity of the Earth orbit with a nail and a piece of plywood
, 2012 I describe how to obtain a rather good experimental determination of the eccentricity of the Earth orbit, as well as the obliquity of the Earth rotation axis, by measuring, over the course of a year, the elevation of the Sun as a function of time during ...
Goldstein H +4 more
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A New Thermal-Solar Field Configuration: The Rotatory Fresnel Collector or Sundial
Energies, 2019 A new type of Fresnel array has been devised and constructed as an answer to the need to reduce the investment costs of solar thermal collectors, without jeopardizing their efficiency in capturing solar radiation at high temperatures. The array of mirror
Javier Cano-Nogueras +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue S1, Page 161-166, April 2025.In dialogue with the articles in this volume, this afterword takes up the relation between temporality, ageing, and models of the good. In particular, it will consider the diverse models of time that are present in each place studied by the contributors, examining how they shift in relation to one another as people age.
Joel Robbins
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From media evolution to the Anthropocene: Unpacking sociotechnical autopoiesis
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 383-395, March/April 2025.Abstract The Anthropocene, a term encapsulating humanity's significant impact on Earth's geology, is analysed from a media and socio‐evolutionary lens. The exploration investigates the correlation between human socio‐evolution, media, technology, and the inception and progression of the Anthropocene era.
Jesper Tække
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Introduction: One of astronomy’s first tools to measure the flow of time, a sundial is simply a stick that casts a shadow on a face marked with units of time. As Earth spins, the shadow sweeps across the face.
Mcdonald Observatory +1 more
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, 2013 Time in written form pervades our social existence. From the daily news, whether on the web or in print, to wall calendars in our homes or offices, which tell us what day it is; from personal watches or cellphones to public clocks, which tell us what ...
Hannah, Robert
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