Volume 18 - Issue 4
GUEST EDITORS FOREWORD SPECIAL ISSUE Sixty-three (63) Selected (peer reviewed) Papers of the INSAP X – Oxford XI – SEAC 25th Joint Conference ‘ROAD TO THE STARS’, held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18th–22nd September 2017 AN ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL APPROACH TO THE MEGALITHIC SITES OF SAUDI ARABIA (pp.1-9) THE ALMOGAREN OF RISCO CAIDO: A SINGULAR ASTRONOMICAL SANCTUARY OF THE ANCIENT CANARIANS (pp.11-18) ARE THE MOONS OF NINNION A REPRESENTATION OF EARTHSHINE? (pp.19-23) URBAN PLANNING AND RITUAL ACTION IN COLONIA ULPIA TRAIANA (XANTEN, GERMANY): UNDERSTANDING A NON-SOLAR ORIENTATION PATTERN (pp.25-32) ASTRONOMY AND RITUAL IN THE PROTOHISTORY OF THE SOUTHEAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA (pp.33-41) WAS THE PARTA NEOLITHIC SANCTUARY IN ROMANIA ASTRONOMICALLY ALIGNED? (pp.43-51) THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UTOPIAN CITY? COMPARING LAND- AND SKYSCAPES IN SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE AND SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA (pp.53-57) ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL STUDY OF THE PROTOHISTORIC SHAFT TOMBS NECROPOLEIS OF THAPSOS (SICILY) (pp.59-69) CARTOGRAPHY IN BENAHOARE: AN ORIENTATED MAP OF THE CANARY ISLAND OF LA PALMA IN AN ANCIENT PETROGLYPH (pp.71-79) ON THE ORIENTATION OF CZECH CITIES FOUNDED DURING THE 13TH CENTURY (pp.81-88) AN ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL APPROACH TO ROMAN URBANISM. ORIENTATION OF ROMAN SETTLEMENTS ACROSS THE EMPIRE (pp.89-95) THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BABYLONIAN ZODIAC: SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS (pp.97-105) EVOLUTION OF ASTRONOMICAL FACILITIES AND PRACTICES IN ANCIENT THRACE (pp.107-113) ALTAR OF THE TWELVE GODS: AN ASTRO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS (pp.115-122) COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO INCA SITES, LOCATED NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN (pp.123-129) ON THE ORIENTATION OF EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN PRAEFECTURA ILLYRICUM (pp.131-138) CONSOLIDATION OF THE RAPANUI ASTRONOMY CONCEPT INVENTORY AND RE-APPRAISAL OF APPLIED ASTRONOMIC OBSERVATION AT PAPA UI HETUU, RAPA NUI (pp.139-147) THE CLAVA CAIRNS OF SCOTLAND, MIDSUMMER FULL MOON AND THE MAJOR LUNAR LIMIT (pp.149-155) STONE ROWS OF THE PRESELI HILLS (pp.157-164) CHURCHES ORIENTATIONS IN THE JESUITS MISSIONS AMONG GUARANI PEOPLE (pp.165-171) HOUSE AND BURIAL ORIENTATIONS OF THE HOKKAIDO AINU, INDIGENOUS HUNTER-GATHERS OF NORTHERN JAPAN (pp.173-180) SURVEY, ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND COMMUNICATION: THE MAUSOLEUM OF GALLA PLACIDIA IN RAVENNA (ITALY) (pp.181-189) THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE MOON AT NARANJO – NEW FACTS AND INTERPRETATIONS (pp.191-198) THE ARCHAEOASTRONOMY OF HIGH ALTITUDE INCA CEREMONIALISM (pp.199-204) THE CASE OF THE TWO CHURCHES OF SANT’APOLLINARE IN PIEDMONT (ITALY): CAN ARCHAEOASTRONOMY HELP TO IDENTIFY WHICH OF THEM IS THE TEMPLAR ONE? (pp.205-212) THE UNINTENTIONAL WINTER SOLSTICE HIEROPHANY IN THE ”SANTI ANGELI CUSTODI” CHURCH IN ROME AND ITS IMPLICATIONS (pp.213-217) THE PREHISTORIC VILLAGES OF THE AEOLIAN ARCHIPELAGO AND MILAZZO: ASTRONOMY AND LANDSCAPE, PRELIMINARY RESULT (pp.219-226) A NEW HIEROPHANY AT MONTE CROCCIA (BASILICATA) (pp.227-232) CASE STUDIES WITH ARCHAEOASTRONOMIC APPROACH IN THE STATE OF TABASCO, MEXICO (pp.233-240) DE QUATTUOR PARTIBUS MUNDI MEDIEVAL SACRED BUILDINGS ON THE VIA FRANCIGENA IN NORTHERN AND MIDDLE ITALY: SOLSTICE ALIGNMENTS AND ORIENTATIONS (pp.241-249) PREVIOUS TRADITION? COINCIDENCE? DESIGN? HOW IT WAS POSSIBLE TO CREATE THE ILLUMINATION EFFECTS AT THE CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JAMES (GALICIA, SPAIN)? (pp.251-258) ASTRONOMY, ETHICS AND THE PLANETS (pp.259-264) IBERIAN APPROACHES TO ASTRONOMY DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY (pp.265-271) STARS AND THEATRE. FROM RENAISSANCE STAGE ASTROLOGERS TO ASTRONOMY–FLAVORED SCIENCE PLAYS (pp.273-280) THE GENESIS OF HIPPARCHUS CELESTIAL GLOBE (pp.281-287) ASTRONOMY DEVELOPMENT AND FILMMAKING IN THE KAROO (pp.289-295) OUR FUTURE OFF–EARTH AND THE ROAD TO THE STARS (pp.297-306) VISUALIZING THE UNIVERSE – THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ASTRONOMY (pp.307-318) MILKY WAY VICISSITUDES: MACROBIUS TO GALILEO (pp.319-325) THE NEVER–ENDING STORY OF THE INFINITE COSMOS (pp.327-334) THE WORLD AS A LIVING ENTITY: ESSENTIALS OF A COSMIC METAPHOR (pp.335-343) ORGANISTRUM IN SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA: SYMPHONIA COELESTIS (pp.345-352) ASTRONOMICAL IMAGERY IN THE WORK OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHER (AND SISTER) HOOD (pp.353-361) ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE… AND HOW PEOPLE RESPOND TO THEM (pp.363-369) THE GREAT COMET OF 1858: A ROAD SIGN TO THE STARS (pp.371-378) SIGNS OF MORNING STAR AUSRINE IN THE BALTIC TRADITION: REGIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL FEATURES (pp.379-388) THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE "RISCO CAIDO AND THE SACRED MOUNTAINS OF GRAN CANARIA": A PARADIGMATIC PROPOSAL WITHIN UNESCO "ASTRONOMY AND WORLD HERITAGE" INITIATIVE (pp.389-397) THE ‘PATH OF THE SPIRITS’: A PRELIMINARY APPROACH TO NORTH-WEST/SOUTH-EAST ORIENTED ROWS OF CAIRNS IN THE ALTAI MOUNTAINS, MONGOLIA (pp.399-407) THE ROCK SANCTUARY OF BARONA HILL FORT AS AN EXCHANGER, INTERFACE AND CROSS-ROADS AMONG THE WORLD LAYERS OF CELTIC COSMOLOGY (pp.409-416) E LUCEVAN LE STELLE: ENGAGING THE PUBLIC OF ROME IN A CULTURAL REPOSSESSION OF THE URBAN SKY (pp.417-423) ROMAN OR GAULIC: ORIENTATION AS A FOOTPRINT OF CULTURAL IDENTITY? (pp.425-433) REFRACTION AND PRECISE LUNAR ALIGNMENTS (pp.435-440) TESTING LANDSCAPE AS CULTURAL EXPRESSION (pp.441-451) A METHODOLOGY FOR TESTING HORIZON ASTRONOMY IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CULTURAL SITES: A CASE STUDY (pp.453-460) PEOPLES KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOORS: CONFLICTS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL PROJECTS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES (pp.461-468) AN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT IN ARCHEOASTRONOMY: THE POK-COURSERA MOOC COURSE (pp.469-475) ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL REFRACTION RECONSIDERED (pp.477-484) CULTURAL ASTRONOMY DEGREE IN HONDURAS: THE NEXT FORMATIVE STEP FOR THE DISCIPLINE (pp.485-490) SKYSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY AS A ROAD TO CULTURAL INSIGHT (pp.491-497) THE REAPPEARING SUN IN NEOLITHIC ORCADIAN LANDSCAPE AND CULTURE (pp.499-506) FIRST STEPS TOWARDS OBTAINING CULTURAL ASTRONOMY SOFTWARE (pp.507-513) DARK SKY: AESTHETICS OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL LANDSCAPE (pp.515-522) BEYOND 3D MODELS: SIMULATION OF TEMPORALLY EVOLVING MODELS IN STELLARIUM (pp.523-528)
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