La acción de mirar al cielo es tan antigua como la humanidad. Hace varios millones de años, nuestros ancestros más lejanos ya observaban el firmamento con el...
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BlogAstronomía y saber: una historia en expansión acelerada
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PublicaciónAstronomy and ritual in the protohistory of the southeast of the Iberian peninsula
Along the first millennium BCE and up to the beginning of the Roman conquest at the end of III century BCE, the southeast part of the Iberian Peninsula was...
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PublicaciónAstronomy in Roman urbanism: a statistical analysis of the orientation of Roman towns in the Iberian Peninsula
The work presented in this article is part of a wide-ranging and ambitious project, started few years ago, to study the role of astronomy in Roman urban layout...
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PublicaciónAstronomy, Architecture, and Symbolism: The Global Project of Sneferu at Dahshur
The two pyramids built during the Old Kingdom by the Fourth Dynasty King Sneferu at Dahshur are usually considered as two consecutive projects, the second –...
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PublicaciónBocapucheros (Almagro, Ciudad Real): nuevo tipo de enterramiento tumular en la Cultura de las Motillas
Resumen: Se presentan los resultados del estudio topográfico, antropológico-tafonómico y arqueoastronómico de Bocapucheros, un nuevo complejo monumental tumular...
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PublicaciónBook review: Egyptian Astronomy
Essay review of the book: La astronomía del antiguo Egipto by J. Llull (PUV, Valencia, 372 pp., 2004) ISBN 84-370-6049-4.
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PublicaciónCanarian ethnoastronomy: the voyage of a tradition?
A large and deep ethnoastronomical fieldwork has been performed in the Canary Islands of Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Gomera and Gran Canaria during 1995...
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PublicaciónDNA, wine and eclipses, the Dahamunzu affaire
In a recent book, Dodson (2009) has presented an updated impression of the Amarna period, in heavy contrast to the one lately defended by Krauss (2008) and...
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PublicaciónEast or Easter? keys to the orientation of Romanesque churches along the way of Saint James
The pilgrimage along the Way of Saint James constituted the principal mechanism for the introduction of new currents of thought into the Iberian Peninsula, such...