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This, the proceedings of a conference held by the Instituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri entitled "Archaeastronomy: a debate between archaeologists and astronomers looking for a shared method" explores our ancestors' knowledge of the movement of the planets and stars. The book is published by Ocarina Books in association with the Instituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri.
Table of Contents
Summary
Why this meeting?(Mario Codebò )
1. Tombs, temples and their orientations: a new perspective on Mediterranean prehistory(Michael Hoskin )
2. Archaeoastronomical measuring: from Stonehenge to Phyramids(Vittorio Castellani)
3. Relationship between morphology and orientation in Sicilian ritual architecture since the IV to II millennium B.C. (Sebastiano Tusa and Giorgia Foderà)
4. Description of some European Upper Palaeolithic supposed calendars: an attempt at distinction between the hypothesis and the reality. (Giuseppe Vicino)
5. The reflection of ancient astronomical knowledges in the rock art of Armenia (Karen Tokhatyan)
6. Carahunge: the prehistoric observatory in Armenia (Paris Herouni)
7. Archaeo-geometry at Stonehenge (Marcello Ranieri)
8. Social complexity, political planning and uses of the firmament (Maurizio Tosi)
9. The orientation of Margherita of Brabante's tomb (Riccardo Balestrieri)
10. Cupmarks: a time system annotation. Geometric analysis of configuration (Giorgio Dimitriadis)
11. Are there astronomical observation places in Bormida Valley? (Carmelo Prestipino)
12. Sky perception and rock art: methodological problems (Sergio Martini)
13. Aspects of material and spiritual culture in the discoveries of archaeoastronomy and their collocation in the paleoethnology (Pietro Gaietto)
14. Upper palaeolithic systems of notation. What do we really know about them? (Francesco d'Errico)
15. The general and the specific: some methodological problems in archaeoastronomy (Clive Ruggles)
16. Sicilian prehistory archaeoastronomical perspectives (Sebastiano Tusa)
17. Application of satellite GPS tecniques to the survey of archaeological and archaeoastronomical places (Adriano Gaspani)
18. Archaeoastronomical orientation and classical mithology (Ubaldo Lugli)
19. Rocca di Cavour (Piemonte): possible topographic data of ancient astronomical data (Vittorio Castellani and Arrigo A. Cigna)
20. The seeing row: survey method of astronomical oriented cupmarks (Giuseppe Brunod)
21. The church of Madonna del Poggio de Rey in Perinaldo(IM): orientation between history and tradition (Marina Muzi and Daniela Piliarvu)
22. Comparative megalithic palaeo-astronomy: Sardinia, Corsica, Eastern Liguria (Enrico Calzolari)
23. An astronomical measure as design support for the ancient Rome (report out of meeting) (Piero Meogrossi)
Public singular and general debates with proposals
Why this meeting?(Mario Codebò )
1. Tombs, temples and their orientations: a new perspective on Mediterranean prehistory(Michael Hoskin )
2. Archaeoastronomical measuring: from Stonehenge to Phyramids(Vittorio Castellani)
3. Relationship between morphology and orientation in Sicilian ritual architecture since the IV to II millennium B.C. (Sebastiano Tusa and Giorgia Foderà)
4. Description of some European Upper Palaeolithic supposed calendars: an attempt at distinction between the hypothesis and the reality. (Giuseppe Vicino)
5. The reflection of ancient astronomical knowledges in the rock art of Armenia (Karen Tokhatyan)
6. Carahunge: the prehistoric observatory in Armenia (Paris Herouni)
7. Archaeo-geometry at Stonehenge (Marcello Ranieri)
8. Social complexity, political planning and uses of the firmament (Maurizio Tosi)
9. The orientation of Margherita of Brabante's tomb (Riccardo Balestrieri)
10. Cupmarks: a time system annotation. Geometric analysis of configuration (Giorgio Dimitriadis)
11. Are there astronomical observation places in Bormida Valley? (Carmelo Prestipino)
12. Sky perception and rock art: methodological problems (Sergio Martini)
13. Aspects of material and spiritual culture in the discoveries of archaeoastronomy and their collocation in the paleoethnology (Pietro Gaietto)
14. Upper palaeolithic systems of notation. What do we really know about them? (Francesco d'Errico)
15. The general and the specific: some methodological problems in archaeoastronomy (Clive Ruggles)
16. Sicilian prehistory archaeoastronomical perspectives (Sebastiano Tusa)
17. Application of satellite GPS tecniques to the survey of archaeological and archaeoastronomical places (Adriano Gaspani)
18. Archaeoastronomical orientation and classical mithology (Ubaldo Lugli)
19. Rocca di Cavour (Piemonte): possible topographic data of ancient astronomical data (Vittorio Castellani and Arrigo A. Cigna)
20. The seeing row: survey method of astronomical oriented cupmarks (Giuseppe Brunod)
21. The church of Madonna del Poggio de Rey in Perinaldo(IM): orientation between history and tradition (Marina Muzi and Daniela Piliarvu)
22. Comparative megalithic palaeo-astronomy: Sardinia, Corsica, Eastern Liguria (Enrico Calzolari)
23. An astronomical measure as design support for the ancient Rome (report out of meeting) (Piero Meogrossi)
Public singular and general debates with proposals