Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy
in College Park, Md., the new results provide "a fundamental set of limits and cautions" for people who study the ancient observatories.
(2006): "Which equinox?", Archaeoastronomy
, Journal for Astronomy in Culture, 20, pp.
seems to have begun with work on the medicine wheels of Native Americans, done in the 1960s and '70s by John Eddy of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
According to Giulio Magli, professor of archaeoastronomy
at Milan's Polytechnic University, Machu Picchu was the ideal counterpart of the Island of Sun, a rocky islet in the southern part of Lake Titicaca.
Four main areas are addressed: archaeoastronomy
, geoarchaeology, landscape studies, and spatial analysis.
South to the island of Gotland we have a United Nations Heritage site on our agenda, as well as explorations of countryside archaeoastronomy
Our focus is the study of the ancient cultures of the Americas, a facet of which has been archaeoastronomy
. This has fostered in our group a love for astronomy as a whole, both ancient and modern.
These invisible lines would connect most of the funerary complexes raised by the kings of the Old Kingdom between 2630 and 2323 BC, Giulio Magli, professor of archaeoastronomy
at Milan's Polytechnic University, told Discovery News.