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.

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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Pictorial account of the expedition to capture the first photographs of the southernmost rise of Venus as seen from the ancient Maya city of Uxmal in western Yucatan. Provides historical and contemporary background information and details about this successful effort to document this event that only occurs once every eight years.

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 ...

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A critical review of contemporary understandings of prehispanic astronomic knowledge in Mesoamerica. Article includes new findings of accurate astronomic data.

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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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 ...

A new theory suggests that the builders of southern England's megalithic monument knew all about Earth's shadows on the moon.

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.

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 ...

Http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/mayan/ The Mayan Prophecies Published 1995 (c) by Adrian Gilbert and Maurice Cotterell Buy Online from Amazon Short Overview. The authors demonstrate how the Mayan Holy Number 1, 366, 560 days, known as the birth of Venus and the basis of their calendar, indicates ancient knowledge of sun spot cycles and their effect on the human race. They explore the popular ...

Astro-Archaeology at Stonehenge The Revd. Edward Duke was the first person to associate astronomy with Stonehenge, describing it as a planetarium full of significant astronomical alignments - although he named none. Unfortunately most of his ideas on the subject were rather fanciful and over-imaginative, and not very scientific. Sir Norman Lockyer (1836 - 1920) was the first person to identify ...