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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]
Ireland ratified the convention on 16 September 1991. [3] As of 2025, Ireland has two sites on the list, and a further three on the tentative list. [3] The first site listed was Brú na Bóinne – Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne, in 1993. The second site, Sceilg Mhichíl, was listed in 1996.
A free-standing circle of large stones was raised around the Newgrange mound. Near the entrance, seventeen hearths were used to set fires. These structures at Newgrange are generally contemporary with a number of henges known from the Boyne Valley, at Newgrange Site A, Newgrange Site O, Dowth Henge, and Monknewtown Henge. [citation needed]
1982 Implications for archaeology. Archaeoastronomy in the Old World, D.C. Heggie (ed): Cambridge: 117–40. 1983a Testing hypotheses about brochs. Scott Archaeol Review 2.2, 117–28. 1983b Review of Keith Critchlow, Time stands still: new light on megalithic science, in Archaeoastronomy 6, 150–53.
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
Embraced by the warm, crystalline waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea, just off the west coast of Italy’s Tuscan shoreline, Isola d’Elba is Italy’s lettera d'amore to the Mediterranean sun and sea.
Anna Sofaer (born November 20, 1940) is an American researcher and educator on the archaeoastronomy of the Ancestral Puebloans of the American Southwest and other ancient cultures. In 1977, she "rediscovered" the astronomical marker site known as the Sun Dagger on Fajada Butte in Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Research has indicated ...