Vol. 18 No. 4 (2018)

Articles

• AN ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL APPROACH TO THE MEGALITHIC SITES OF SAUDI ARABIA

  Munirah A. Almushawh

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• THE ALMOGAREN OF RISCO CAÍDO: A SINGULAR ASTRONOMICAL SANCTUARY OF THE ANCIENT CANARIANS

  Julio Cuenca Sanabria, José de León, Cipriano Marín, José Carlos Gil, Juan Antonio Belmonte, Carlos Gil Sarmiento, José Miguel Márquez Zárate

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• ARE THE MOONS OF NINNION A REPRESENTATION OF EARTHSHINE?

  Themis G. Dallas

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• URBAN PLANNING AND RITUAL ACTION IN COLONIA ULPIA TRAIANA (XANTEN, GERMANY): UNDERSTANDING A NON-SOLAR ORIENTATION PATTERN

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

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• ASTRONOMY AND RITUAL IN THE PROTOHISTORY OF THE SOUTHEAST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

  César Esteban

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• WAS THE PARTA NEOLITHIC SANCTUARY IN ROMANIA ASTRONOMICALLY ALIGNED?

  Marc Frincu

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• THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UTOPIAN CITY? COMPARING LAND- AND SKYSCAPES IN SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE AND SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA

  Alejandro Gangui, Juan Antonio Belmonte

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• ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL STUDY OF THE PROTOHISTORIC SHAFT TOMBS NECROPOLEIS OF THAPSOS (SICILY)

  Andrea Orlando, Davide Gori, Carlo Veca

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• CARTOGRAPHY IN BENAHOARE: AN ORIENTATED MAP OF THE CANARY ISLAND OF LA PALMA IN AN ANCIENT PETROGLYPH

  Manuel Pérez Gutiérrez, Felipe Jorge Pais Pais, María Antonia Perera Betancort, A. César González-García, Julio Cuenca Sanabria, Juan Antonio Belmonte

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• ON THE ORIENTATION OF CZECH CITIES FOUNDED DURING THE 13TH CENTURY

  Nikolaos Ragkos

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• AN ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL APPROACH TO ROMAN URBANISM. ORIENTATION OF ROMAN SETTLEMENTS ACROSS THE EMPIRE

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

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• THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BABYLONIAN ZODIAC: SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS

  John Steele

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• EVOLUTION OF ASTRONOMICAL FACILITIES AND PRACTICES IN ANCIENT THRACE

  Alexey Stoev, Penka Maglova, Mina Spasova

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• ΒΩΜΟΣ ΔΩΔΕΚΑ ΘΕΩΝ / ALTAR OF THE TWELVE GODS: AN ASTRO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

  Vance R. Tiede

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• COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO INCA SITES, LOCATED NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

  Corrado Gustavo, Giménez Benítez Sixto, Pino Matos José L., Balbi Nicolas

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• ON THE ORIENTATION OF EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN PRÆFECTURA ILLYRICUM

  Themis G. Dallas

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• CONSOLIDATION OF THE RAPANUI ASTRONOMY CONCEPT INVENTORY AND RE-APPRAISAL OF APPLIED ASTRONOMIC OBSERVATION AT PAPA UI HETU’U, RAPA NUI

  Alexandra Edwards, Barthelemy d’Ans, Edmundo Edwards

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• THE CLAVA CAIRNS OF SCOTLAND, MIDSUMMER FULL MOON AND THE MAJOR LUNAR LIMIT

  J. Anna Estaroth

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• CHURCHES ORIENTATIONS IN THE JESUITS MISSIONS AMONG GUARANI PEOPLE

  Giménez Benítez Sixto, López Alejandro Martín, Gamboa Martín, Mudrik Armando

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• HOUSE AND BURIAL ORIENTATIONS OF THE HOKKAIDO AINU, INDIGENOUS HUNTER-GATHERS OF NORTHERN JAPAN

  Akira GOTO

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

  M. Incerti, G. Lavoratti, S. D’Amico, S. Giannetti

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• THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE MOON AT NARANJO – NEW FACTS AND INTERPRETATIONS

  Stanisław Iwaniszewski

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• THE ARCHAEOASTRONOMY OF HIGH ALTITUDE INCA CEREMONIALISM

  J. McKim Malville

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• THE CASE OF THE TWO CHURCHES OF SANT’APOLLINARE IN PIEDMONT (ITALY): CAN ARCHAEOASTRONOMY HELP TO IDENTIFY WHICH OF THEM IS THE TEMPLAR ONE?

  Silvia Motta, Adriano Gaspani

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• THE UNINTENTIONAL WINTER SOLSTICE HIEROPHANY IN THE ”SANTI ANGELI CUSTODI” CHURCH IN ROME AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

  Vito Francesco Polcaro, Andrea Polcaro

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• THE PREHISTORIC VILLAGES OF THE AEOLIAN ARCHIPELAGO AND MILAZZO: ASTRONOMY AND LANDSCAPE, PRELIMINARY RESULT

  Andrea Orlando, Sebastiano Tusa, Davide Gori

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• A NEW HIEROPHANY AT MONTE CROCCIA (BASILICATA)

  Vito Francesco Polcaro, Andrea Orlando, Emmanuele Curti, Alberto Scuderi, Leonardo Lo Zito

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• CASE STUDIES WITH ARCHAEOASTRONOMIC APPROACH IN THE STATE OF TABASCO, MEXICO

  Hans Martz de la Vega

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• DE QUATTUOR PARTIBUS MUNDI MEDIEVAL SACRED BUILDINGS ON THE VIA FRANCIGENA IN NORTHERN AND MIDDLE ITALY: SOLSTICE ALIGNMENTS AND ORIENTATIONS

  Eva Spinazzè

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• PREVIOUS TRADITION? COINCIDENCE? DESIGN? HOW IT WAS POSSIBLE TO CREATE THE ILLUMINATION EFFECTS AT THE CATHEDRAL OF SAINT JAMES (GALICIA, SPAIN)?

  Benito Vilas-Estévez, Ruth Varela, A. César González-García

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• ASTRONOMY, ETHICS AND THE PLANETS

  Dr Nicholas Campion

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• IBERIAN APPROACHES TO ASTRONOMY DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

  Walmir Thomazi Cardoso, Roberto de Andrade Martins

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• STARS AND THEATRE. FROM RENAISSANCE STAGE ASTROLOGERS TO ASTRONOMY–FLAVORED SCIENCE PLAYS

  Giangiacomo Gandolfi

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• THE GENESIS OF HIPPARCHUS’ CELESTIAL GLOBE

  Susanne M. Hoffmann

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• ASTRONOMY DEVELOPMENT AND FILMMAKING IN THE KAROO

  Jarita C. Holbrook

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• OUR FUTURE OFF–EARTH AND THE ROAD TO THE STARS

  Chris Impey

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• VISUALIZING THE UNIVERSE – THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ASTRONOMY

  Chris Impey, Dinah Jasensky

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• THE NEVER–ENDING STORY OF THE INFINITE COSMOS

  Vicent J. Martínez, Albert Martínez–Artero

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• THE WORLD AS A LIVING ENTITY: ESSENTIALS OF A COSMIC METAPHOR

  Michael A. Rappenglück

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• ORGANISTRUM IN SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA: SYMPHONIA COELESTIS

  Giuseppe Severini, Andrea Orlando

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• ASTRONOMICAL IMAGERY IN THE WORK OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHER (AND SISTER) HOOD

  V. Shrimplin

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• ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA NORTH OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE… AND HOW PEOPLE RESPOND TO THEM

  Rolf Sinclair

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• THE GREAT COMET OF 1858: A ROAD SIGN TO THE STARS

  Christiaan Sterken

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• SIGNS OF MORNING STAR AUŠRINĖ IN THE BALTIC TRADITION: REGIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL FEATURES

  Vytautas Tumėnas

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• THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE „RISCO CAÍDO AND THE SACRED MOUNTAINS OF GRAN CANARIA‟: A PARADIGMATIC PROPOSAL WITHIN UNESCO “ASTRONOMY AND WORLD HERITAGE” INITIATIVE

  Juan Antonio Belmonte, Julio Cuenca Sanabria, José Carlos Gil, José de León, Cipriano Marín, Clive L. Ruggles

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• THE ‘PATH OF THE SPIRITS’: A PRELIMINARY APPROACH TO NORTH-WEST/SOUTH-EAST ORIENTED ROWS OF CAIRNS IN THE ALTAI MOUNTAINS, MONGOLIA

  Cecilia Dal Zovo, A. César González-García

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• THE ROCK SANCTUARY OF BAROÑA HILL FORT AS AN EXCHANGER, INTERFACE AND CROSS-ROADS AMONG THE WORLD LAYERS OF CELTIC COSMOLOGY

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

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• E LUCEVAN LE STELLE: ENGAGING THE PUBLIC OF ROME IN A CULTURAL REPOSSESSION OF THE URBAN SKY

  Stefano Giovanardi, Gabriele Catanzaro, Giangiacomo Gandolfi, Gianluca Masi

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• ROMAN OR GAULIC: ORIENTATION AS A FOOTPRINT OF CULTURAL IDENTITY?

  A. César González–García, Marco V. García Quintela

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• REFRACTION AND PRECISE LUNAR ALIGNMENTS

  Thomas T. Gough

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• TESTING LANDSCAPE AS CULTURAL EXPRESSION

  Gail Higginbottom, Roger Clay, Fabien Voisin, Phong Nguyen

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• A METHODOLOGY FOR TESTING HORIZON ASTRONOMY IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CULTURAL SITES: A CASE STUDY

  Trevor M. Leaman, Duane W. Hamacher

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• PEOPLES KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOORS: CONFLICTS BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL PROJECTS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES

  Alejandro Martín López

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• AN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT IN ARCHEOASTRONOMY: THE POK-COURSERA MOOC COURSE

  Domenico Brunetto, Giulio Magli

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• ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL REFRACTION RECONSIDERED

  Stephen C. McCluskey

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• CULTURAL ASTRONOMY DEGREE IN HONDURAS: THE NEXT FORMATIVE STEP FOR THE DISCIPLINE

  Javier Mejuto, Eduardo Rodas-Quito

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• SKYSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY AS A ROAD TO CULTURAL INSIGHT

  Andrew M. Munro, Steven R. Gullberg

  491

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• FIRST STEPS TOWARDS OBTAINING CULTURAL ASTRONOMY SOFTWARE

  Eduardo Rodas-Quito, Javier Mejuto

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• DARK SKY: AESTHETICS OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL LANDSCAPE

  Gary Wells

  515

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• BEYOND 3D MODELS: SIMULATION OF TEMPORALLY EVOLVING MODELS IN STELLARIUM

  Georg Zotti, Florian Schaukowitsch, Michael Wimmer

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• THE REAPPEARING SUN IN NEOLITHIC ORCADIAN LANDSCAPE AND CULTURE

  Victor Reijs

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• STONE ROWS OF THE PRESELI HILLS

  David A. Fisher

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• MILKY WAY VICISSITUDES: MACROBIUS TO GALILEO

  George Latura

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