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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]
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.
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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.
One of the first applications of laser-stimulated fluorescence in anthropology, the tattoos contain lines only 0.1 millimeter wide.
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.