Archaeoastronomy and the alleged “Stonehenge calendar”
In a recent Antiquity article, Darvill (2022) proposed that the mid third-millennium BC Stage 2 sarsen settings of Stonehenge (comprising the Trilithon...
Archaeoastronomy in Bronze Age Sites of La Mancha (Spain)
We present archaeoastronomical results of an interdisciplinary project to study Bronze Age sites of the socalled Cultura de las Motillas in the Spanish region...
Archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy are often considered synonyms, but they actually express different concepts, the former being a sub-discipline of the...
Archaeoastronomy: A Sustainable Way to Grasp the Skylore of Past Societies
If astronomy can be understood as the contemplation of the sky for any given purpose, we must realize that possibly all societies throughout time and in all...
Archaeology of the sky. Astronomical orientations in Protohistoric buildings of the south of the Iberian Peninsula = Arqueología del cielo. Orientaciones astronómicas en edificios protohistóricos del sur de la Península Ibérica
We present an archaeoastronomical analysis of the orientations of six protohistoric sanctuaries and public buildings located in archaeological sites of the...
Are beryllium abundances anomalous in stars with giant planets?
In this paper we present beryllium (Be) abundances in a large sample of 41 extra-solar planet host stars, and for 29 stars without any known planetary-mass...
Are C60 Molecules Detectable in Circumstellar Shells of R Coronae Borealis Stars?
The hydrogen-poor, helium-rich, and carbon-rich character of the gas around R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars has been suggested to be a site for formation of C60...
Are collisions with neutral hydrogen important for modeling the second solar spectrum of Ti I and Ca II?
Context: The physical interpretation of scattering line polarization offers a novel diagnostic window for exploring the thermal and magnetic structure of the...