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  2. List of archaeoastronomical sites by country - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of sites where claims for the use of archaeoastronomy have been made, sorted by country.. The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) jointly published a thematic study on heritage sites of astronomy and archaeoastronomy to be used as a guide to UNESCO in its evaluation of the cultural importance of archaeoastronomical ...

  3. Archaeoastronomy - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. List of artifacts significant to archaeoastronomy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Astronomical complex - Wikipedia

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    An astronomical complex or commemorative astronomical complex is a series of man-made structures with an astronomical purpose. It has been used when referring to a group of Megalithic structures that it is claimed show high precision astronomical alignments.

  6. Category:Archaeoastronomy - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Archaeoastronomy" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  7. Alignment (archaeology) - Wikipedia

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    Alignment example: Two halves of a pit separated by a later cut can have their archaeological association inferred by noting their alignments. An alignment in archaeology is a co-linear arrangement of features or structures with external landmarks, [1] in archaeoastronomy the term may refer to an alignment with an astronomically significant point or axis.

  8. Cultural astronomy - Wikipedia

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    It developed from the two interdisciplinary fields of archaeoastronomy, the study of the use of astronomy and its role in ancient cultures and civilizations, and ethnoastronomy, "a closely allied research field which merges astronomy, textual scholarship, ethnology, and the interpretation of ancient iconography for the purpose of reconstructing ...

  9. Temple of Jupiter (Baalbek) - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Jupiter is a colossal Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon. It is the largest of the Roman world after the Temple of Venus and Roma in Rome. It is unknown who commissioned or designed the temple, nor exactly when it was constructed. It is most likely construction begun in the first century BC.