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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 ...
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]
Newgrange (Irish: Sí an Bhrú [1]) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres (five miles) west of the town of Drogheda. [2]
Book of Silk – Drawings of comets unearthed from Han tomb number 3 at Mawangdui Han tombs site, Changsha, China; Golden hats – Tall conical hats said to be embossed with symbols of astronomical significance from Bronze Age Central Europe; Grooves (archaeology) - grooves found in rock in northern Europe and particularly on Gotland, Sweden
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In the field of relativistic astrophysics, Magli has worked on the so-called Cosmic Censorship conjecture.He was the first to find the general exact solution of the Einstein field equations for spherically symmetric spacetimes with tangential stresses and, together with R. Giambo', F. Giannoni and P. Piccione, to investigate the nature of the final state for these gravitational collapse models.
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The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-300-08347-7. Burl, Aubrey. A Brief History of Stonehenge. London: Robinson, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84529-591-2; Burl, Aubrey. Four-posters: Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1988. ISBN 0860545806.