Science: Archaeology: Topics: Archaeoastronomy: Page 2

Study of rupestral engravings in Italy.

Academic society with conferences and publications. English and French text.

Contact details for this international academic society.

Referenced article exploring this ancient Japanese kofun (burial mound). Astrological charts have been determined from the "star paintings" inside the tomb.

Stone relics and monuments, of unknown age or origin, with possible Solstitial and/or Principle Term alignments. With photos.

An online book of the folkore in Lithuania surrounding the sun, moon and stars by Jonas Vaiknas.

Well referenced article by Steven Mizrach upon astronomy as practiced by the Lakota.

Archaeoastronomy Lecture notes and photographs from Leicester University.

An archaeoastronomy book by William H. Calvin of the University of Washington. The book, which describes a dozen ways of predicting eclipses, can be purchased or downloaded for personal reading at no charge.

Ligurian Archaeoastronomy, mainly in Italian but with some English and German translations.

Photograph of a sandstone artifact from Palo Alto California, and text which argues that marking carved into it are native represenations of the Big Dipper and Little Dipper.

The BBC reports that astronomer Dr Philip Stooke has found a map of the moon in an Irish tomb that pre-dates the earliest known one by about 5000 years.

A controversial discovery of a 16,000-year-old "map of the night sky" in Lascaux caves. BBC article.

A unique prehistoric tomb in Ireland has been revealed to align to both the midsummer Sun and the midwinter Moon. BBC article

British Egyptologist puts forward an astronomical theory for the northern alignment of the Great Pyramid at Giza. BBC article.

A guide the megalithic monuments of Scotland and their astronomical alignments. Also contains illustrations, a bibliography and suggestions for the best times of year to visit.