id
	10301
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/10301
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Case studies of archaeoastronomy in Romania
Creator
	Szücs-Csillik, Iharka
	Comşa, Alexandra
	Maxim, Zoia
	Szűcs, István
Date
	2010
Language
	eng
Rights
	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Abstract
	Archaeoastronomy is the discipline which studies celestial phenomena looking from the viewpoint of our ancestors (how they understood and used celestial phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures). Archaeoastronomy uses different methods, derived from archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, statistics, and probability, in order to determine the thoughts of the ancient civilizations. Because these methods are heterogeneous and use data coming from different sources, the collecting and processing require considerable time. In this article two archaeoastronomical case studies in Romania are presented. First, we show a mathematical method used in order to study the astronomical orientation of the skeletons from the Neolithic necropolis of Cernica. We created a detailed data bank for the Cernica necropolis and, using our program written in MATLAB, we obtained interesting results, mostly from an astronomical point of view. Secondly, we provide an astronomical explanation about the ten radiuses on the top of the Andesite Stone from Sarmizegetusa Regia.
Is Part Of
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/2002
Pages
	325–337
Uri
	http://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/id.php?id=582
Volume
	21
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/T32CI937/item-list

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