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Belmonte, J. A.; César González-García, A.; Rodríguez-Antón, A.
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IAU General Assembly, Meeting #29, #2159249
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2015
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Descripción
During the last decade (starting in 2005), the OAS Project has been run,
with the support of the Spanish research agencies. Within its framework,
research on cultural astronomy has been developed for a series of
ancient cultures from the Atlantic Islands to the Arabian Peninsula with
the Meditterranean Sea as the pricipal axis of the project. A catalogue
of studies has been performed in a set of cultures such as the
Megalithic Phenomenon, ancient Egypt, Middle East Bronze and Iron Age
civilizations and the Roman World, among many others. In this essay a
general scope of the project and a series of most interesting outcomes
will be presented. The evolutionary ties of the megalithic monuments of
the Iberian Peninsula and elsewhere, the pattern of orientation of
Egyptian temples and skyscaping practices within the Hittite,
Commagenian or Nabataean cultures, among others, will be shown;
finishing in a comprehensive, statistical and comparative study of the
orientation patterns of thousands of ancient monuments of the
Mediterranean region. Finally, a sketch of our most recent, still
ongoing, research on the astronomical and non-astronomical practices
used in the planning of cities in the Roman World will be a compelling
and promising closing remark of our analysis.