Things of the sky: Cultural astronomy and onomastic creativity in selected Tshivenḓa poetry by Moffat Sebola, Kgabo L. Mphela

“…Cultural astronomy remains a vital component of indigenous communities across the world because it represents the preservations of their scientific knowledge. …”
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Școala clujeană de astronomie culturală / The School of Cultural Astronomy from Cluj-Napoca by Iharka Szucs-Csillik

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The etymology of 'Sun' in Khitan small script used in Liao dynasty considered as the source on early stages of cultural astronomy by Roh, Y-S.

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Landscape construction and time reckoning in Iron Age Celtic Iberia by A. César González-García, Marco V. García Quintela, Juan A. Belmonte

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Spojrzenie z bliska. Koncepcja kosmosu i ciał niebieskich jako świata oswojonego kulturowo by Grzegorz Błahut

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Los petrograbados y la técnica del gnomon como registro solar de marcadores astronómico-calendáricos en sitios del centro-norte de Mesoamérica by Omar Cruces Cervantes

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The wolf's jaw: an astronomical interpretation of Ragnarok by Langer, J.

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A prehistoric Native American pictograph that signals the summer solstice by McHugh John, Lundwall John, Howells Tom

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Interpreting the apparent lunar symbolism on a Fremont Indian pendant by John K. Lundwall, John McHugh, Elizabeth Nagengast-Stevens

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Essays in Archaeology and Archaeometry and the Hellenic Contribution to Egyptology by Nikolaos Lazaridis, Omar Abdel-Kareem, Grigorios Tsokas

“…The topics touch on the cultural astronomy, the ancient textiles and masonries and the physico-chemical and biological investigations, the socio-political issues of Egyptian Ramesside era, revisiting the inscription of an Egyptian statuette, and the valuable information extracted from rock graffiti in north Kharga, Egypt.…”
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A Cybercartographic Atlas of the Sky: Cybercartography, Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Work among the Pa Ipai Indigenous Families from Baja California, Mexico by Martín Cuitzeo Domínguez Núñez

“…This mapping was elaborated through an interdisciplinary study that combined cybercartography, ethnography, cultural astronomy, semiotics, and collaborative work. The central argument of the article focuses on how the cybercartographic sky atlas of the Pa Ipai people responded to the situation and social problems of these communities. …”
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A great cosmic phenomenon in the heritage by Mona El-Shaieb

“…(Brewer, 1991 ; McMurray, 2003) In the history of cultural astronomy, virtually every ancient civilisation viewed the sudden chewing-up of the Sun as a bad omen."…”
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«Orientatio ad sidera»: astronomy and landscape in «Qart Hadašt/Carthago Nova» by Antonio César GONZÁLEZ-GARCÍA, José Miguel NOGUERA CELDRÁN, Juan Antonio BELMONTE AVILÉS, Andrea RODRÍGUEZ ANTÓN, Elena RUIZ VALDERAS, María José MADRID BALANZA, Encarnación ZAMORA, José BONNET CASCIARO

“…<p>Archaeological investigations in Cartagena –the ancient Punic Qart Hadašt, Roman Carthago Nova– have manifested the existence of ritual, urban and topographical elements that could be analyzed from the perspective of Cultural Astronomy. Therefore, in October 2013, an interdisciplinary team of astronomers and archaeologists conducted a field campaign of the main topographic and archaeological landmarks of the Punic and Roman periods of the city. …”
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Astronomy across cultures: reporting experiences on the GalileoMobile education activities in the Paiter Suruí indigenous community by Figueiró Spinelli Patrícia, Germano Ana Paula, Germano Ana Paula, Fernades Cristina, Benitez-Herrera Sandra, Carrelli Sá Silva Felipe

“…The ground team, comprised of three astronomers, one filmmaker and one anthropologist, undertook the study of various academic works on ethno and cultural astronomy, as well as specific texts on science education in traditional communities and ethnography of Brazilian indigenous peoples. …”
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Knowledge of the Sky among Indigenous Peoples of the South American Lowlands—First Archaeoastronomical Analyses of Orientations at Mounds in Uruguay by Camila Gianotti, A. César González-García, Nicolás Gazzán, Cristina Cancela-Cereijo, Moira Sotelo

“…We analyzed, from a cultural astronomy perspective, the relationship between the orientations of five mound sites and different astronomical events in the lowland region of Uruguay. …”
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A proposal of didactic sequence to discuss ethnic-racial relations (Laws 10.639/03 and 11.645/08) in the classes of Sciences and Physics by Alan Alves Brito, Vitor Bootz, Neusa Teresinha Massoni

“…Anchored in theoretical references of Cultural Astronomy and Paulo Freire’s Dialogical Theory, the present work presents a diversified Didactic Sequence with the objective of allowing, in the classes of Sciences and Physics of basic education, although the Didactic Sequence can also be applied in higher education, a large discussion about the historical, cultural, and scientific assumptions of the African, Indian and so-called Western sky. …”
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