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The rising Sun illuminates the inner chamber of Newgrange, Ireland, only at the winter solstice.. Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary [1] or multidisciplinary [2] study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures". [3]
The introduction of Christianity into Ireland also resulted in the introduction of Hellenistic astrology to the island. During this period Ireland was known as a centre for the study of astrology and astronomy. Colleges run by the fili, or court poets were the main centres of study; however, monasteries were also centres of astrological ...
Archaeoastronomy and the Roots of Science Edwin C. Krupp (Editor, Author) 1984 Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado: Reviews recent research, on the astronomy of worldwide ancient cultures and the effects of astronomy on those cultures. [36] Beyond the Blue Horizon – Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets Edwin C. Krupp 1991
Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave – carved mammoth tusk 'plate' with proposed figurative asterism; combined with notched denotations relating to time-reckoning. The cave is in the Swabian Jura, Germany.
An archaeoastronomy debate was triggered by the 1963 publication of Stonehenge Decoded, by Gerald Hawkins an American astronomer. Hawkins claimed to observe numerous alignments, both lunar and solar. He argued that Stonehenge could have been used to predict eclipses.
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1978b A hierarchy of artefact names for the MDA cards: part 1. Museum Documentation Association News 2 (Sept.), 55–9. 1978c Radiocarbon dating and Egyptian chronology. SIS Review, 6 (1–3), 56–65. 1978d A heretic in his time (review of Scientists confront Velikovsky by Donald Goldsmith), New Scientist (11 Sept.), 780.
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