Bibcode
Esteban, C.
Referencia bibliográfica
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 16-20, 2018, in Salamanca, Spain, ISBN 978-84-09-09331-1. B. Montesinos, A. Asensio Ramos, F. Buitrago, R. Schödel, E. Villaver, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Ordóñez-Etxeberria (eds.) p. 623-628
Fecha de publicación:
3
2019
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0
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Descripción
This paper reviews some of the main results of archaeoastronomical
fieldworks carried out in sanctuaries and temples belonging to the Iron
Age Iberian culture. Most of this work has been done in close
collaboration with archaeologists. The orientation pattern of the
Iberian sacred buildings seems to be related to the rising sun. A
significant fraction of the sanctuaries show astronomical markers over
topographic elements of the local horizon, most of them indicate the
rising sun at the equinoxes or the temporal midpoint between the
solstices. Iberian cave-sanctuaries - that tend to be oriented to the
west - show illumination phenomena in their interior at sunset in
singular moments of the solar calendar.