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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]
Piyavi Wijewardene (Upul Piyavi Wijewardene) (born 7 November 1982) is a Sri Lankan researcher, lecturer, coacher and author. He is the Vice President and chief executive officer of the Odiliya Group. In addition he served as the Director Quality Assurance at KIU Sri Lanka.
Edwin Charles Krupp (born November 18, 1944) is an American astronomer, researcher, author, and popularizer of science.He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of archaeoastronomy, the study of how ancient cultures viewed the sky and how those views affected their cultures.
Siran Upendra Deraniyagala (1942–2021) Sri Lankan archaeologist and historian, who served as the Director-General of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2001; Donald Brian Doe (1920–2005) British; Arabia; Louis Felicien de Saulcy (1807–1880) French; Holy Land; Jules Desnoyers (1800–1887) French ...
The cave entry Pahiyangala archaeological site Aerial view. Fa Hien Cave, Faxian Cave, or Pahiyangala Cave is situated in the district of Kalutara, Western Province, Sri Lanka and according to a rural legend, named after an alleged resident during historical times, namely Buddhist monk Faxian, previously romanized as Fa Hien.
Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and historical revisionist. [1] He is the Regents Professor of Computer Science Department at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, [2] an honorary visiting professor of engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru University, [3] and a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
The ACCIMT was established in 1984 by act of parliament, the Arthur C. Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies Act, No. 30 of 1984.This institution, initially known as Arthur C. Clarke Centre, was renamed as the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, and re-established in a corporate form in 1994 by the Science And Technology Development Act, No. 11 of 1994. [2]
Compared to the earlier Sri Lankan fossils, the island's fossil records from around 40,000 BP onwards are much more complete. Excavated fossils of skeletal and cultural remains from this period provide the earliest records of anatomically modern Homo sapiens in South Asia, and some of the earliest evidence for the use of a specific type of stone tool.