Στην έρευνα θα δείτε διαφορετικά
είδη μεγαλιθικών μνημείων - μερικά από τα αρχαιότερα μεγαλιθικά στην Γαλικία, της
ΒΔ. Ισπανίας - ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΑ για την ΙΒΗΡΙΚΗ, ΕΔΩ.
Έρευνα που έγινε στις θέσεις
ντολμέν ή μεγαλιθικών τάφων, της μέσης νεολιθικής εποχής. - ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΑ ΜΕΓΑΛΙΘΙΚΑ, ΕΔΩ.
Παρόμοια με τους ορθίους λίθους
της Σκοτίας.
Η αστρονομία έπαιξε ρόλο στον
σχεδιασμό τους. Είναι πιθανόν ότι και αυτά τα ντολμέν δημιουργήθηκαν με ισχυρή
σύνδεση με τα αστρονομικά φαινόμενα και το περιβάλλον τους, αλλά με τρόπους
αρκετά διαφορετικούς από εκείνους των ορθολίθων, που παρατηρούνται στην δυτική
Βρετανία. Ενώ μερικά από αυτά τα ντολμέν ήταν συνδεδεμένα με τον Ήλιο, καθώς
φώτιζαν τους τάφους, μέσα και έξω, μπορεί κάλλιστα να είχαν ενσωματωθεί και άλλα
αστρονομικά φαινόμενα.
Αυτοί οι αστρονομικοί στόχοι
μπορεί επίσης να εμφανιστούν στα νησιά Islay και Jura.
Ωστόσο, αυτές οι δύο
ευρύτερες περιοχές της Costa da Morte και της Δυτικής Σκοτίας είχαν πολύ
διαφορετικά φυσικά τοπία και τα τοπία που επιλέχθηκαν από κάθε ομάδα για τα
μνημεία τους, μπορεί να σχετίζονται με διαφορετικά κοσμολογικά υποσυστήματα.
ΠΗΓΗ: Megalithomania UK, 2.2.2022. ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 3.2.2022.
The second talk from Gail at Megalithomania 2021 (see her first talk here) looks at very different kinds of megaliths, in fact, some of the earliest megaliths in Galicia, NW Spain. Here we shall explore research done on the middle Neolithic sites of dolmens or megalithic tombs. For this work, similar to that of the standing stones of Scotland, we shall be relying heavily on the use of digital visualisation techniques, which allow us to see and analyse the kinds of landscapes the builders chose for their sites, and the extent to which astronomy played a role in their design. It is likely that these dolmens were created with a strong connection to astronomical phenomena and their surrounding landscape from their inception but in ways quite different to those of standing stones seen in western Britain. Whilst some of these dolmens were connected to the Sun, as they lit up the tombs inside and out and as was the more traditionally believed, other astronomical phenomena may well have been incorporated. Fascinatingly, these astronomical targets may also appear on the islands of Islay and Jura. Nevertheless, overall, these two wider areas of Costa da Morte and Western Scotland had vastly different natural landscapes and the landscapes that were chosen by each group for their monuments may relate to different cosmological sub-systems.Gail Higginbottom is a landscape archaeologist, cultural heritage
manager and theorist whose current areas of archaeological research involve
monuments, geographical and cultural landscapes, depositional behaviour and
belief systems. She has acted as an international cultural heritage adviser on
indigenous to historic cultural places, the existing geographical coverage of
her specialist research is Europe and the study of ancient and prehistoric
cultures. Major scientific investigations include the application and
development of databases, geographical information systems (GIS) as well as the
co-development and application of statistics. Methodological enhancement
activities revolve around digital archaeology and the theoretical
considerations and actual applications of these. These include the use of 3D
landscape software (in-house development), use of drones and photogrammetry,
and the use of tablets in the field loaded with specialist data and software to
enable field observations of the night and day sky and landscape together as
seen by past peoples. Gail's research program also incorporates working with
ideas about materiality and human experience and the research program has a
connection to many of the philosophical traditions currently used in cultural
and ecological anthropology today.
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