Vol. 16 No. 4 (2016)

Articles

• FOREWORD

  Dr. Jean Paul Hernandez, SJ (Chaplain of Rome University Chapel)

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• THE CREDIBILITY OF ARCHAEOASTRONOMY: A SUGGESTION FROM PHARMACOLOGY?

  Vito Francesco Polcaro

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• LOOKING THROUGH A TELESCOPE WITH AN OBSIDIAN MIRROR. COULD SPECIALISTS OF ANCIENT CULTURES HAVE BEEN ABLE TO VIEW THE NIGHT SKY USING SUCH AN INSTRUMENT?

  Josef Vit, Josef Vit, Michael A. Rappenglück

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• OPEN-SOURCE VIRTUAL ARCHAEOASTRONOMY

  Georg Zotti

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• PHENOMENOLOGY OF SHADOW

  Daniel Brown

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• SKYSCAPES OF CLIFTON

  Rumbidzai Mukundu, William Ktorides, Daniel Brown

  33

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• ANOTHER LOOK AT THE LUNAR SERIES AT DOS PILAS, GUATEMALA 1

  Stanisław Iwaniszewski

  41

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• ANIMISM, RECIPROCITY AND ENTANGLEMENT

  J McKim Malville

  51

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• THE CROSSOVER AMONG THE INCAS IN THE COLLASUYU

  Ricardo Moyano

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• DISARTICULATED DUAL SEASONS AND MAYA COSMOLOGY IN HIGHLAND MAYA COMMUNITIES

  N. Louanna Furbee, Ramón Jiménez Jiménez

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• BASIS OF A GNOMONIC PARADIGM IN MESOAMERICA: THE CASE OF MAYAPAN

  Raúl Pérez-Enríquez, Jesus Galindo Trejo

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• |XAM SKYLORE OF THE KAROO DESERT, SOUTH AFRICA

  Jarita Holbrook, J. M. de Prada-Samper

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• ASTRAL SCIENCE OF THE EAST SYRIAC CHRISTIANS IN CHINA DURING THE LATE FIRST MILLENNIUM AD

  Bill M. Mak

  87

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• ORIENTATIO AD SIDERA (OAS): HIGHLIGHTS OF A DECADE OF ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION AND BEYOND

  Juan Antonio Belmonte, A. César González-García, Andrea Rodríguez-Antón

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• THE SKY FROM THE HIGH TERRACE: STUDY ON THE ORIENTATION OF THE ZIQQURAT IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

  Davide Nadali, Andrea Polcaro

  103

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• PLEIADES IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

  Lorenzo Verderame

  109

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• THE URBAN SET OF THE PANTHEON AND THE MAUSOLEUM OF AUGUSTUS IN ROME, BETWEEN ARCHITECTURAL AND ASTRONOMICAL SYMBOLISM

  Lanciano Nicoletta, Paola Virgili

  249

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• SHRINES OF RAM-HEADED DIVINITIES AND CANOPUS: SKYSCAPING AT HERAKLEOPOLIS MAGNA

  Juan Antonio Belmonte, M. Carmen Pérez Die, Lucía Díaz-Iglesias Llanos

  125

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• A DIACHRONIC ANALYSIS OF ORIENTATION OF SACRED PRECINCTS ACROSS JORDAN

  A. César González-García, Juan A. Belmonte, Andrea Polcaro

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• EARLY MESOPOTAMIAN INTERCALATION SCHEMES AND THE SIDEREAL MONTH

  Eshbal Ratzon

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• ROMANS IN THE NEAR EAST: THE ORIENTATION OF ROMAN SETTLEMENTS IN PRESENT-DAY JORDAN

  A. Rodríguez-Antón, J.A. Belmonte, A.C. González-García

  153

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• TEMPLES OF ASTARTE ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN

  César Esteban, Daniel Iborra Pellín

  161

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• THE ORIENTATION OF THE MITHRAEA IN OSTIA ANTICA

  Silvia Sclavi, Marzia Monaco, Flavio Carnevale, Marcello Ranieri, Silvia Gaudenzi, Francesco Vito Polcaro, Claudia Scatigno

  257

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• THE BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMICAL DIARIES: A GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF THEIR IMPLIED REFERENCE SYSTEM

  Steven Gullberg

  167

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• REDISCOVERING THE MALTESE TEMPLE OF BORĠ IN-NADUR: AN ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL PERSPECTIVE

  Davide Tanasi, Andrea Orlando

  175

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• ARA· PACIS· AVGVSTAE: AN ASTRO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

  Vance R. Tiede

  267

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• THE SUN OF HOMER

  Manuela Revello

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• PRAILEAITZ I: A MAGDALENIAN LUNAR-SOLAR CAVE AT 15,500 BP IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY

  Lionel Sims, Xabi Otero

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• THE MYTH OF IXION: AN ASTRONOMICAL INTERPRETATION

  Paolo Colona

  183

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• ON THE VALUE AND MEANING OF PROCLUS’ PERFECT YEAR

  Boyko Zlatev

  191

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• ARCHAEOASTRONOMY IN BRONZE AGE SITES OF LA MANCHA (SPAIN)

  César Esteban, Luis Benítez-de-Lugo-Enrich

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• ORIENTATION OF THE SARDINIAN NURAGIC "MEETINGS HUTS"

  Augusto Mulas, Mauro Peppino Zedda

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• THE ORIENTED ALTARS OF ROCCA PIZZICATA AND THE ROCKY SITES OF ALCANTARA VALLEY

  Andrea Orlando, Maria Teresa Magro, Marco Stefano Scaravilli

  203

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• THE MEGALITHIC TEMPLE OF DIANA ON THE CEFALÙ ROCK (SICILY)

  Davide Gori, Andrea Orlando

  207

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• THE ROLE OF URBAN TOPOGRAPHY IN THE ORIENTATION OF GREEK TEMPLES: THE CASES OF AKRAGAS AND SELINUNTE

  Robert Hannah, Giulio Magli, Andrea Orlando

  213

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• LUNISTICES AT SESTO FIORENTINO: AN INVESTIGATION ON GEOMETRY AND ALIGNMENTS OF THE THOLOS TOMBS OF THE ETRUSCAN PRINCES

  Flavio Carnevale, Marcello Ranieri

  219

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• LA GESSERA: AN IBERIAN BUILDING FOR WORSHIP? (TARRAGONA, SPAIN)

  Manuel Pérez Gutiérrez, David Bea Castaño, Jordi Diloli Fons, Jordi Vila Llorach, Marc Prades Painous

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• A “PHOENICIAN LIGHTHOUSE” AT CAPO GALLO (PALERMO)?

  Massimo Rapisarda, Marcello Ranieri

  225

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• EQUINOCTIAL MARKERS IN PROTOHISTORIC IBERIAN SANCTUARIES

  César Esteban

  297

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• ON THE ORIENTATION OF TWO ROMAN TOWNS IN THE RHINE AREA

  David Espinosa Espinosa, Marco V. García Quintela, A. César González-García

  233

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• THE ORIENTATION OF LUGDUNUM CONUENARUM AND THE CELTIC FEASTS MARKING THE START OF THE SEASONS IN ANCIENT GAUL

  A. César González García, Marco V. García Quintela, Andrea Rodríguez Antón

  241

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• INTERVISIBILITY, SIGHTLINES AND ALIGNMENTS

  Claus Clausen

  379

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• ARMENIAN ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND ASTRONOMY IN CULTURE

  Areg Mickaelian, Sona Farmanyan

  385

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• ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL COSMOLOGY IN ARMENIAN HIGHLAND

  Sona V. Farmanyan, Areg M. Mickaelian

  393

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• LATE CHALCOLITHIC SOLAR-CHTHONIC ROCK-CUT STRUCTURES FOR TIME MEASURING IN THE EASTERN RHODOPES, BULGARIA

  Penka Maglova, Alexey Stoev, Mina Spasova

  401

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• RESEARCH PROJECT “ASTRONOMICAL ORIENTATIONS AND GEOPHYSICAL ANOMALIES OF TRAPEZOIDAL NICHES IN THE EASTERN RHODOPES, BULGARIA“: IN SEARCH OF AN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP

  Alexey Stoev, Penka Maglova

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• PREHISTORIC ROCK SANCTUARY WITH ARCH NEAR THE VILLAGE OF KOVACHEVITSA, BULGARIA: SPATIAL ORIENTATION AND SOLAR PROJECTIONS

  Alexey Stoev, Vassil Markov, Mina Spasova

  413

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• ASTRONOMY IN THE MEDIEVAL LIBER FLORIDUS

  S. Draxler

  421

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• AN HYPOTHESIS OF AN ASTRONOMICAL SYSTEM OF LIGURES APUAN IN GARFAGNANA

  Mauro Peppino Zedda

  429

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• SURVEY, ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND COMMUNICATION: THE MAUSOLEUM OF THEODORIC IN RAVENNA (ITALY)

  M. Incerti, G. Lavoratti, S. Iurilli

  437

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• FROM HAGIOGRAPHY TO CELTIC COSMOLOGY: ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND CHRISTIAN LANDSCAPE IN OURENSE (NW SPAIN)

  A. César González García, Marco V. García Quintela

  447-454

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• AN ORIENTALIZING RITUAL BUILDING IN ALISEDA (CÁCERES, SPAIN)

  Manuel Pérez Gutiérrez, Alonso Rodríguez Díaz, Ignacio Pavón Soldevila, David M. Duque Espino

  305

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• THE ALIGNMENT OF MEDIEVAL CHURCHES IN NORTHERN-CENTRAL ITALY AND IN THE ALPS AND THE PATH OF LIGHT INSIDE THE CHURCH ON THE PATRON SAINT’S DAY

  Eva Spinazzè

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• ILLUMINATION EFFECTS AT THE CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JAMES (GALICIA): FIRST RESULTS

  Benito Vilas Estévez, Trinity Saint David, A. César González-García

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• THE IBERIAN URBAN SANCTUARY OF PUENTE TABLAS (JAÉN, SPAIN)

  Manuel Pérez Gutiérrez, Arturo Ruiz Rodríguez, Manuel Molinos Molinos

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• ILLUMINATION EFFECTS AT THE CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JAMES (GALICIA): FIRST RESULTS

  Benito Vilas Estévez, A. César González-García

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• ASTRONOMY AND SOLAR SYMBOLOGY IN THE BASILICA OF SAN MINIATO AL MONTE AND IN THE BAPTISTERY OF SAN GIOVANNI IN FLORENCE

  Simone Bartolini, Marco Pierozzi

  473

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• APPLICATION OF CULTURAL ASTRONOMY METHODS TO HIGH SCHOOL BY MEANS OF STUDYING ASTRAL DECORATIONS AND ORIENTATIONS OF GALICIAN HÓRREOS

  Fátima Braña Rey, Ana Ulla Miguel, Esther Pérez Fernández

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• LIGHT BEAMS AND ARCHITECTURE MARKED CELESTIAL EVENTS IN COLONIAL CHURCHES AND MISSIONS IN NEW SPAIN AND PERÚ: NEW EVIDENCE FROM MORELIA

  Robert A. Benfer

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• ASTROLOGY, PROPHECY AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN SCIENCE SEEN THROUGH THE LENSES OF RENAISSANCE ART

  Giangiacomo Gandolfi

  487

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• ASTRONOMY AND CULTURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: ISAAC NEWTON’S INFLUENCE ON THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND POLITICS

  Dr Nicholas Campion

  497

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• THE OLD AND THE NEW ROME: FRANCESCO BIANCHINI’S ASTRONOMICAL EXCHANGES WITH THE COURT OF LISBON

  Luís Tirapicos

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• SKY SIMULATIONS FOR THE PALAEOLITHIC EPOCH

  Elio Antonello

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• WHERE TELESCOPES CANNOT (YET) SEE - THE MOON AS SEEN BY SCRIVEN BOLTON, ÉTIENNE TROUVELOT, LUCIEN RUDAUX, CHESLEY BONESTELL

  Angelo Adamo

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• ANALYSING EDUCATION AS A VARIABLE IN “THE SKY IN OUR LIVES SURVEY”

  Rodwell Ndlovu

  591

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• ROME IS STAR SHAPED: S.T.A.R. THE FIRST ITALIAN APP FOR THE SPREAD OF CULTURAL ASTRONOMY

  M. Chirri, L. Ruggiero

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• FOREWORD

  Dr. Jean Paul Hernandez

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• THE BEAR AND THE YEAR: ON THE ORIGIN OF THE FINNISH LATE IRON AGE FOLK CALENDAR AND ITS CONNECTION TO THE BEAR CULT

  Marianna P. Ridderstad

  355

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• SKY BEAR RESEARCH: IMPLICATIONS FOR “CULTURAL ASTRONOMY”

  Roslyn M. Frank

  343

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• THE GUNDESTRUP CAULDRON: IS THIS THE KEY TO THE ENIGMA?

  Claude Maumené

  351

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• THE COMMON ATTRIBUTES BETWEEN THE BALTIC THUNDER GOD PERKŪNAS AND HIS ANTIQUE EQUIVALENTS JUPITER AND ZEUS

  Vytautas Tumėnas

  359

• ON THE CONSTELLATION ORIGIN OF THE PLACE NAME HINDELOOPEN

  E. Amsterdam

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  THE KUDURRUS AND THE SKY. ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE DOG-SCORPION-LAMP ASTRAL PATTERN AS REPRESENTED IN KASSITE KUDURRUS RELIEFS

  Sara Pizzimenti

  119

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