Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy : From Giza to Easter Island. 1st ed. 2009

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by Giulio Magli

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New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 2009

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• Magli, Giulio.
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9780387765662 [0387765662]    

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1 -- Thirty thousand years of silence -- Forests of stones, rings of giants -- The island of the goddess -- A Civilization entitled to no place -- When the method is lacking -- Wheels, octagons and golf courses -- Straighr road , circle Buildings, and supernova -- The land where the god where born -- The tree of the world -- The four part of the Earth -- The People of the lines -- The last of the lands -- 2 -- Apicnic on the side of the road -- Predidting the past -- Power and Replica -- 3 -- The age of the Pyramides -- Gatway to the stars -- On the path of the Ancient Stars -- The scared landscape in the Age of the Pyrimid.
This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of archaeoastronomy examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor Guilio Magli provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our planet. Was it an attempt to reproduce the sky on Earth? To bring down the power of the stars to where they could see it, worship it, and use it? The connecting thread is astronomy. Magli uses astronomy as a key to understanding our ancestors’ way of thinking. It is a challenge he likes to call "predicting the past." The motives of the ancients have often been misconstrued, maligned, or even dismissed. Magli shows the limitations of orthodox archaeology in relation to astronomically based artifacts and tries to understand what led the ancients to construct such magnificent structures as the city of Teotihuacan in the Mexico Valley, the Ceremonial Center of Chaco Canyon in the United States, the Avebury stone circle in

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