Stone circles, dolmens, standing stones, cairns and barrows: welcome to the first guide to European megaliths and other ancient sites ...

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Native American constellations. Lakota constllations related to Black Hills features, ceremonial observations. Stone medicine wheels -- solar-stellar observatories -- the first (analog) computers. Naked-eye astronomy. Crab nebula supernova. Sun Dagger. Star Stories. Teacher sources for native-centered astronomy.

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Introduction to the Ancient Astronomical Cosmology Web Pages Archive of Course Materials and Assignments Archeoastronomy Student Web Sites Online tour and image archive of the Maya Dresden Codex Online tour and image archive of the Aztec Borgian Codex Index of Links to other Archeoastronomy Sites Go to the Timeline This is an Interactive Atlas of World Astronomy -- Click on a Continent to Begin!

A summary of ancient and historical sites of astronomical interest.

ISAAC, the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture ISAAC is a professional organization established in 1996 to promote the academic development of archaeoastronomy, including ethnoastronomy. The goal of this society is to enhance the professional status of archaeoastronomy by forming ties with existing international, regional and national academic bodies, organizing ...

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Comprehensive Astronomical analysis of Irish Megalithic sites.

Welcome to African Writing Systems Select a category from the menu or click in a region within the map. The African Writing Systems web site was created in 1998 by Professor Ayele Bekerie, with creative and design assistance from Anika Iesha Daniels and Joseph Egbulefu. It is partially funded by the Ford Foundation. Return to Africana Library home page Last Update: May 28, 2002 ...

The University of Oregon archaeological field school, established in 1937 by Luther S. Cressman, will be working at the Paisley 5 Mile Caves site this summer. Dr. Jenkins, assisted by graduate student, Tony Largaespada (M.S.), will lead the archaeological excavations at this site which was reported by Luther Cressman (1940) to contain Pleistocene mammal (camel, horse, and musk oxen) bones in ...

Academic journal for history of astronomy and archaeoastronomy.

A hub page with links to all ancient astronomy related articles by James Q. Jacobs. Bibliography.

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A reference page on Iberian Epigraphy (language and writing) and on celtiberian and Sudlusitanian-Tartessian writings with selected bibliography ...

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CAA 2000: Computing Archaeology for Understanding the Past Supported by the European Commission, Research DG, Human Potential Programme, High-Level Scientific Conferences, HPCF-CT-199-00147. A joint conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (28th annual conference) and the Union Internationale des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, Commission IV. April ...

The Archaeological Data Archive The Archaeological Data Archive includes materials of two kinds - Web documents with archaeological data that may be viewed online and files that may be downloaded from the CSA server for inspection on users' machines with the aid of their own software. Any information available via Web documents may also be downloaded in appropriate forms for use on user's ...

Archaeoastronomy Astronomical interpretations of megaliths go back to the 18th century when William Stukeley found Stonehenge to be aligned towards the sunrise at midsummer, and John Smith interpreted it as a calendar and an 'astronomical temple'. Speculations about the astronomical significance of megaliths continued throughout the 19th century. Modern archaeoastronomy came into being mainly ...

Sunwheel - Proposed and constructed under the watchful eye of Professor Judith Young of the Astronomy Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst ...

The Bead Study Trust is a Registered Charity, founded in 1980, to promote research into beads world-wide.

198 College Hill Road Clinton, New York 13323 Accessible Version GEOARCHAEOLOGY Overview (315) 859-4367 | tjones@hamilton.edu GEOARCHAEOLOGY Overview Courses Faculty ::: Geoarchaeology at Hamilton Geoarchaeology -- the use of geologic methods and principles to enhance interpretations of the archaeologic record -- is a major specialty area that has experienced tremendous growth over the past ...

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The need for the solid modelling of structure in the archaeology of buildings Robert Daniels Table of Contents How to access this article Home Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations 1. The Development of Three-Dimensional Modelling in Archaeology 1.1 What is Three-Dimensional Modelling What is a model 1.2 The Initial Need for Three-Dimensional Modelling in Archaeology Representing Data ...

The Fezzan Project: Geoarchaeology of the Sahara Study area Archaeology Palaeoclimate and environment Geomorphology Remote sensing Recent environmental change People, institutes and contacts General links Email the Fezzan Project A tower in the fortified Casbah of the medieval town of Old Germa. Photo by Nick Brooks, February 2001. The aim of the interdisciplinary Fezzan Project is to increase ...

Harrison Eiteljorg, II CSA - Center for the Study of Architecture and Harrison Eiteljorg, II This document may be reproduced and distributed freely so long as the following conditions are met. One, authorship and copyright notice must appear on any distributed copy of the whole or any part thereof. Two, there are no charges for such reproductions beyond those for photocopying. Three, no ...

A review of the archaeological evidence for food plants from the British Isles: an example of the use of the Archaeobotanical Computer Database (ABCD) Philippa Tomlinson * and Allan R. Hall ** Table of Contents Home Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables 1 Introduction 2 Archaeobotanical Evidence for Foodplants 2.1 Previous Surveys of Food Plants in Britain 3 What is a Food ...

Francais English La Fille des Megalithes et les Guerriers d'Airain The Girl of Megaliths and the Bronze Warriors Odile Paleologos is a member of The Stone Circle Webring Click for the Want to join The Stone Circle Click here for info . Home/Accueil Odile Prigent - Paleologos 1997-2000 27/04/2000 opaleo@cybercable.fr ...

P&aring svenska tack Archaeoastronomy About the grooves in Gotland There are about 3600 known grooves in stones in Gotland. 700 are in the bedrock, which is limestone, and the rest in about 800 stones. The lenght of the grooves varies from about 0.5 to 1 metre. They are between 5 cm to 10 cm wide and 1 cm to 10 cm in depth. They are shaped as though they were made by a tool fixed on a pendulum, ...

Geoarcheology Contents: 1) The principles 2) The applications of Geoarchaeology 3) The difficulties 4) A case study: the Tiber valley 1) The principles (up) A major part of the historical-cultural heritage is still buried in the subsoil, treated by an advancing degradation. This patrimony does not consist in single archaeological sites, but in areas and landscapes of a certain extension. The ...

Tom Malzbender, an HP Labs researcher, has invented a tool that lets scholars see ancient texts in ways never before possible. HP Labs is the central research lab for Hewlett-Packard.

Geoarchaeology in Iowa Iowa archaeologists find artifacts and features buried at varying depths beneath the ground surface. Whether working on flood plains and terraces in stream valleys, or on ridges and hills in the uplands, archaeologists must pay careful attention to the earth materials (sediments and soils) within which they find archaeological remains. The sediments themselves often hold ...

August 27.-31. Tartu Estonia SEAC 2002 About Tartu Cultural Context from the Archaeoastronomical Data and the Echoes of Cosmic Catastrophic Events Tartu-T ravere-Viluste-Kaali News: Schedule of Scientific Sessions, Cultural Programme and Social Events Lodging during SEAC-2002 Map of Tartu Photos of Tartu Documents: First Circular Pre-registration Form Second Circular List of Participants Tartu ...

Information about the Charles McBurney Laboratory for Geoarchaeology in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge ...

Horizon puts Graham Hancock's controversial evidence for a lost civilisation to the test.

Steinkreise, Dolmen, Menhire, Ruinen, castles, rock formations, hobby, Ronald Biggs, Tiffany Glastechnik ...

Pubblicato su Proceeding NEWS95 - INTERNATIONAL ROCK ART CONGRESS, North East West South 1995 Tourin, Italy, by Ce.S.M.A.P. & I.F.R.A.O., Survey supplement 1999, Pinerolo, Italy, www.cesmap.it - NEWS 95 - Symposium 1A: New approaches Archaeo-astronomical hypotheses on some ligurian engravings (1) Mario CODEBO Abstract. Some Ligurian engravings are oriented towards the four cardinal points. A ...

The Digital Imprint Template is now available for download. With generous funding from the Ahmanson Foundation, the Lab has been conducting a three year project to help develop standards for the digital publication of archaeological field reports. This project, called the Digital Imprint, will explore new approaches for organizing and presenting primary field data. The development of both ...

Donald R. Cochran (Department of Anthropology, Ball State University) ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AT MOUNDS STATE PARK During the 1988 Ball State University field school at Mounds Park, it was discovered that two enclosures were aligned to sunset at the summer and winter solstice when viewed from the center of the Great Mound. Additional depressions in the Great Mound embankment were found to be oriented ...

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A chance discovery of a group of megaliths on a coastal plain in western Yemen has sent scholars scrambling to explain why and how people were living there between ca. 2400 and 800 B.C.

RUNDETAARN www.rundetaarn.dk search HISTORY Archaeoastronomy in Denmark by Erling Poulsen Several prehistoric monuments are known from abroad with levels pointing in significant astronomical directions, in particular from the Middle East. However, these cultures had a written language which can tell us - in present day - about their science. No written language existed in Northern Europe, and we ...

GEOARCHAEOLOGY at Indiana State University Geoarchaeology, which involves the use of geoscience methods and techniques to solve archaeological problems, is a research focus of the Anthropology and Geography programs at ISU. Two department faculty members are actively involved in geoarchaeological research. Dr. Basil Gomez (Associate Professor of Geography & Geology) conducts research on Bronze ...

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Notes on the Shaw Butte Hilltop Archaeological Site On a barren hilltop in the Phoenix Mountains of Arizona, ancient Hohokam built a monument to their gods, the seasons and their own intelligence. The stone walled oval with its mysterious petroglyphs and purposeful architecture is but a hint of the of the intelligence of these people. Hidden within the nearby rocks is a shelter built of stone.

University of Bristol ARCHAEOLOGY & COMPUTER SCIENCE INSITE - Computer based reconstructions of archaeological sites INSITE PROJECT An Interactive Photo-Realistic Visualisation System for Archaeological Sites Full paper - explaining the complete project, contains several large images Brief introduction to the INSITE project with small images and links to full size images Brochtorff Circle ...

A Combined Miniature Gnomon and Compound Dioptra c. 35.7u N. Lat. 10 AM 2/27/2000 Gnomon, Miniature Gnomon & Compound Dioptra Relativity, at least in the Cartesian sense, implies the relating of centers or origins together with their arbitrary systems of axes, rays or vectors. Since all points in the universe of discourse are related within each of the individual systems then the systems can be ...

LAKOTA ETHNOASTRONOMY by Steven Mizrach Introduction Although there has been much written about Plains Indian ethnoastronomy, a large amount of that literature has focused on the Caddoan ethnic/linguistic group - in particular, tribes such as the Pawnee, Arikara, and Arapaho. In this paper, I will focus on the Sioux Indian tribes (a misnomer), looking in particular at the astronomical ...

Trent Valley Geoarchaeology Trent Valley Geoarchaeology is an interest group bringing together professional archaeologists, geologists, aggregate companies, environmental and statutory bodies working within the Valley of the River Trent. The group aims to promote high quality, multidisciplinary geoarchaeological research advancing the sustainable use of the Valley. The River Trent TVG Group ...

University of Bristol DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY Visualisation of Landscapes Project Welcome to the Visualisation of Landscapes project (VLP). What exactly is the VLP The Visualisation of Landscapes project is a University funded teaching initiative within the Archaeology Department, in conjunction with the Departments of Computer Science and Geography. The project is an inter-disciplinary ...

Carolina Bay Geoarchaeology and Holocene Landscape Evolution on the Upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina Mark J. Brooks Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, P.O. Drawer 600, New Ellenton, South Carolina 29809 Barbara E. Taylor Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Drawer E, ...

Geoarcheology in the Georgia Bight: A Study of Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary (NOAA) and J Reef, Georgia ABSTRACT: Fluctuations in sea level and variable rates of shoreline change can greatly alter the availability of land for human habitation. Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary (GRNMS) may have been a site of ancient human settlement during the last geologic time period and thus may ...

LATE PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE GEOARCHAEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY AT THE SHEEP ROCK SPRING SITE, MONTANA WILSON, Michael C., Department of Geology, Douglas College, PO Box 2503, New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2, Canada, wilsonmi@douglas.bc.ca and DAVIS, Leslie B., Curator of Archaeology and Ethnology, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT 59717 The Sheep Rock Spring site (24JF292) is a stratified ...