Archaeoastronomy

Nuevos conjuntos de insculturas en Jumilla (Murcia)

by Francisco Gil González

Pletita, 4, 2001. Jumilla.
Emiliano Hernández Carrión, Francisco Gil González, Antonio Javier Medina Ruíz

We study new sets of rock carvings in Jumilla (Murcia). One of them can be interpreted as an astronomical observatory.... more We study new sets of rock carvings in Jumilla (Murcia). One of them can be interpreted as an astronomical observatory.

Se estudian nuevos conjuntos de grabados rupestres en Jumilla (Murcia). Uno de ellos se puede interpretar como un observatorio astronómico.

Un ciel de fer et de bronze

by Florent Mathias

Publié dans 'les Cahiers de Science et Vie' n°129 (mai 2012), pp. 27-31)

La question de l'existence d'une forme d'astronomie antérieure aux périodes historiques en Europe occidentale a... more La question de l'existence d'une forme d'astronomie antérieure aux périodes historiques en Europe occidentale a longtemps divisé archéologues et astronomes. Le sujet a malheureusement fait l'objet de nombreuses récupérations pour étayer des thèses pseudo-scientifiques, ce qui a contribué à le discréditer aux yeux de la communauté scientifique.

Au regard d'un certain nombre de découvertes archéologiques parmi les plus spectaculaires de ces vingt dernières années, la question mérite cependant d'être de nouveau considérée sérieusement.

Le présent article est une courte synthèse présentant les principaux résultats des recherches que je mène depuis maintenant deux ans dans le cadre d'un Master Recherche en Archéologie Protohistorique à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Un culto solare del IV millennio a.C. nei dipinti di Tuleilat al-Ghassul

by Andrea Polcaro

Published in: L. Lozito, F. Pastore (eds.), Atti del Convegno Cielo e Cultura Materiale, recenti scoperte di archeoastronomia, Paestum 20 Novembre 2010, Salerno 2011, pp. 37-48.

Tell Arad (zone H e M) e Bab edh-Dhra (Charnel House A44). La geometria di alcuni edifici del Bronzo Antico. Lo squadro numerico, la composizione armonica e l'unità di lunghezza

by Andrea Polcaro

Co-authored with Marcello Ranieri, published in M. Incerti (ed), Mensura Caeli, Territorio, Città, Architetture, Strumenti. Atti dell'VIII Convegno Nazionale della società italiana di Archeoastronomia (SIA), Ferrara 2010, pp. 202-213.

Divagaciones sobre Sanisera, Torretrencada y Ses Roques Llises (Menorca).

by Ferran Lagarda Mata

La antigua ciudad de Sanisera (Menorca), citada por Plinio, no está en Sanitja. La antigua ciudad de Sanisera (Menorca), citada por Plinio, no está en Sanitja.

2004 Alineación arqueoastronómica en A Ferradura (Amoeiro-Ourense)

by Marco García Quintela

primeros pasos en el estudio de la astronomía en la cultura

An archaeoastronomical phenomenon around the winter solstice, new en NW Spain archaeology, is presented. The evidence... more An archaeoastronomical phenomenon around the winter solstice, new en NW Spain archaeology, is presented. The evidence comes from a rock carved inside of a natural rocky outcrop placed in an archaeological context provisionally understood as a sanctuary dated in the Second Iron Age. The study through the comparative method of the two main rock carvings in that sanctuary lead us to think that we are in face to a minimalist material form of the same religious ideology expressed, with other material forms, in the Monumental Pool at Bibracte (Gaul), and in the Capitol at Rome. This ideology turns around ideas about time and space and relates the social hierarchical order with the natural life presided by sun.

2009 ARQUEOASTRONOMÍA, ANTROPOLOGÍA Y PAISAJE

by Marco García Quintela

Con A. César González García
“Arqueoastronomía, Antropología y Paisaje”, Complutum, 20(2), 2009, págs. 39-54.

The present paper pretends to show the close connections between space archaeology and archaeoastronomy. We indicate... more The present paper pretends to show the close connections between space archaeology and archaeoastronomy. We indicate the fundaments and possibilities of both disciplines and their methodologies in order to not restrict ourselves to a wishful list of propositions, bearing in mind that both areas are diverse in their trajectories. We propose that historic anthropology can be a useful guide to counterbalance the increasing rise of complex analytic technologies (e.g. the use of complex celestial models) to avoid the creation of a separate and disconnected area of knowledge, without further interesting contributions to the study of past cultures. We will thus show that these diverse disciplines must be viewed as tools to help in a better understanding of different aspects of ancient societies’ everyday life which otherwise would remain unknown to us.
Keywords: Archaeoastronomy; Space Archaeology; Landscape Archaeology; Historic Anthropology; Cognitive Anthropology; Methodology

2010 Campo Lameiro y Peñalba de Villastar: miradas cruzadas sobre lugares de culto prerromanos peninsulares y su romanización

by Marco García Quintela

con A. César González García

2008 Calendaric Deer, Time Reckoning and Landscape in NW Spain Iron Age

by Marco García Quintela

en colaboración con A.C. GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA, J.A. BELMONTE AVILÉS y M. SANTOS ESTÉVEZ. En Jonas Vaiškūnas (ed.), Astronomy and Cosmology in folk traditions and cultural Heritage, Archaeologia Baltica (Klaipdeda, Lituania), 10, 2008, págs. 66-70.

The relationship between petroglyphs and archaeoastronomy
has been treated in several ways in the past. In the... more The relationship between petroglyphs and archaeoastronomy
has been treated in several ways in the past. In the present study we propose a singular study of a particular motif found among the rock carvings in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula: large deer with over-sized horns and an unnatural number of tips on each horn. A multidisciplinary approach
combining landscape archaeology, comparative history of religion, and archaeoastronomy suggests a coherent interpretation of the motif. It can reveal a particular synthesis of calendrical motivations and landscape relationships with important lunisolar events. Further implications may apply to the Celtic wold image and its artistic manifestations and the
relationship between time and landscape.

2006 Solar Cycle and Landscape: defining a celtic pattern

by Marco García Quintela

in M. V. García Quintela, F.J. González García y F. Criado Boado, (eds.), Anthropology of the Indo-European World and Material Culture. Proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium of Anthropology of the Indo-European World and Comparative Mythology. Santiago de Compostela 22-24 / September / 2004. Ed. Archaeolingua, Budapest, 2006. ISBN 963-8046-72-4, págs. 83-109

The Iron Age religious landscape of the River Barbantiño valley (Ourense, Galicia, Spain) is presented. There are an... more The Iron Age religious landscape of the River Barbantiño valley (Ourense, Galicia, Spain) is presented. There are an impressive hill fort (San Cibrán de Las), other less important, and the rock art area of A Ferradura interpreted as a sanctuary. Between carved rocks and hill forts, on both sides of the Barbantiño valley, there are different solar alignments. Comparative data are discussed to show the archaeological system detected as inspired by people of Celt culture and religion. The Iron Age name of the San Cibran hill fort was ‘Lansbricae’, with the characteristic Celt –briga ending.

2008 Los “santuarios” de Galicia en la Edad del Hierro “A Ferradura” (Amoeiro, Ourense) como ejemplo

by Marco García Quintela

con Manuel Santos Estévez,
publicado en X. Dupré Raventós, S. Ribichini, S. Verger (a cura di), Saturnia Tellus. Definizioni dello spazio consacrato in ambiente etrusco, italico, fenicio-punico, iberico e celtico, Atti del convegno internazionale svoltosi a Roma dal 10 al 12 novembre 2004. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, 2008, pp. 527-545

Es una contextualización y resumen de nuestras investigaciones en el sitio de A Ferradura con petroglifos y... more Es una contextualización y resumen de nuestras investigaciones en el sitio de A Ferradura con petroglifos y alineaciones solares

Algumas considerações teóricas sobre arqueoastronomia

by Fernando Coimbra

Published in:

Algumas considerações teóricas sobre arqueoastronomia in
Revista de Portugal, Nova Série, n.º 5. Solar Condes de Resende, V.N. de Gaia, 2008.

Megalithic enclosures of the region of the Monfurado hills and the "hillocks of the mid-world": monuments, landscape and culture in the alentejan Neolithic

by Pedro Alvim

CALADO, M. (ed) 2004 – Sinais de Pedra. Actas do Colóquio Internacional sobre Megalitismo e Arte Rupestre. Évora: Fundação Eugénio de Almeida. 2004

Recintos megalíticos da região da serra de Monfurado e os «Cabeços do Meio-Mundo»: monumentos, paisagem e cultura no Neolítico alentejano.

by Pedro Alvim

CALADO, M. (ed) 2004 – Sinais de Pedra. Actas do Colóquio Internacional sobre Megalitismo e Arte Rupestre. Évora: Fundação Eugénio de Almeida. 2004.

2004. Astronomical alignments in the Río Bec architecture. Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture 18: 98-107.

by Ivan Šprajc

2009. Propiedades astronómicas de la arquitectura prehispánica en la isla de Cozumel, Quintana Roo, México. In: Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya, 18, tomo II: 111-136. Campeche: Universidad Autónoma de Campeche.

by Ivan Šprajc

1993, The Venus-rain-maize complex in the Mesoamerican world view: part II. Archaeoastronomy no. 18 (Supplement to Journal for the History of Astronomy 24): S27-S53

by Ivan Šprajc

2005. More on Mesoamerican cosmology and city plans. Latin American Antiquity 16 (2): 209-216.

by Ivan Šprajc

2000. Astronomical alignments at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Latin American Antiquity 11 (4): 403-415.

by Ivan Šprajc

2009. Astronomical and cosmological aspects of Maya architecture and urbanism. In: José Alberto Rubiño-Martin, Juan Antonio Belmonte, Francisco Prada, and Antxon Alberdi (eds.), Cosmology across cultures, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 409: 303-314, San Francisco.

by Ivan Šprajc