Titlebook: Advancing Cultural Astronomy; Studies In Honour of Efrosyni Boutsikas,Stephen C. McCluskey,John Steel Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicabl

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-510-3This paper recounts Clive Ruggles’ work with ICOMOS on heritage sites of astronomy and archaeoastronomy in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.

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Clive Ruggles and the Development of Cultural Astronomy,h measured alignments signified possible astronomical alignments. This concern with defining methodologically rigorous procedures is an enduring theme in Ruggles’ work, but at this early stage, cultural context played no role in his research, reflecting the common practice of contemporary British ar

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What Equinox?the date and concept of the equinox in ancient Rome at the moment of the Julian reform had to be taken into account. The Romans apparently favoured the day midway between the solstices instead of the astronomical equinox itself. Consequently, it is clear that one needs to be very cautious when study

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Signs, Not Phenomena: , Cosmo-politics and Alternative Experiences of the Skyst in the sky has different motivations, methods and premises than Western science. The . perspective is a true ., oriented to set courses of action in relation to the intentions of celestial beings, employing the clues or signs (.) that can be observed in the sky.

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The North Sky and the Otherworld: Journeys of the Dead in the Neolithic Considered the sun and moon. It is also the region of circumpolar stars which never rise or set and are perpetual in a viewing sense. The hypothesis that the process of cremation released the spirit of the dead to travel to the abode of the ancestors in the north sky, a zone commonly associated with death and

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Diachrony and the Big Picture: Chabola de la Hechicera, a Peculiar Orientation and a Sacred Landscaphe orientation of this group of monuments by considering the big picture, both in time and in space. This study investigates the orientations of these megaliths and how they relate to other groups in northern Iberia. This comparison highlights that despite the differences a coherent picture is revea