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Virgil, Georgics; Columella, De re rustica.
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HeilerF., Storia delle religioni, i (Florence, 1976), 414–16; LeviM., Roma antica (Turin, 1963), ii, 466–7.
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Encyclopedia Italiana (1936), xxxii (entry “Sole” by M. Guarducci, University of Rome), 52–55.
5.
ManconiD.PiamiG., Guide archeologiche Laterza: Sardegna (no. 14) (Rome, 1981). ProverbioProfessore E. (University of Cagliari) and RomanoG.(University of Padua) have undertaken measurements of standing stones at three sites in southeastern and central Sardinia reported in this volume.
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BattistiC., Sostrati e parastrati nell'Istria Preistorica (Florence, 1959).
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AmmermanA.BonardiA.TononM., “Mutera di Oderzo (Treviso): Nota preliminare sulla campagna di scavo 1982”, Rivista di archeologia, vi (1982), 113–16.
8.
Thus, we follow the “Thom paradigm” as articulated in numerous articles published in this journal. This choice of astronomical targets is not necessarily a logical one as Aveni (“Archaeoastronomy in the Southwestern U.S.: A neighbor's eye view”, in CarlsonJ.JudgeJ. (eds), Astronomy and ceremony in the prehistoric S. W. (Albuquerque, in press) has argued. For example, the lunar extrema are perceptually obscure compared with the solar standstills and there is no a priori reason to accord the two sets of observations coordinate rank in any statistical search. We know of no ethnographic evidence of lunar extrema being marked by any culture anywhere in the world. Nevertheless, in the present instance we adopt the Thom procedure in its totality in order to achieve a more definitive general comparison of two relatively remote sets of data. For convenience only eastern alignments are tabulated but in each case the reverse alignment has been considered. Horizon altitudes are essentially zero in all cases. Available maps include Italian Military Geographical Institute (Florence); 1:25000, Edition 5, IGMI (1969).
9.
RomanoTonon, op. cit. (ref. 1, 1982).
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Romano, op. cit. (ref. 1).
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RomanoG.TononM., “Sugli orientamenti di alcune strutture preistoriche”, Rivista di archeologia, ix, 5 (1985).
12.
RomanoTonon, op. cit. (ref. 1, 1982).
13.
These are reported here for the first time.
14.
It may be worth noting that the Proverbio and Romano study (in progress, see ref. 5) has begun to reveal a significant correlation of alignments with the December solstice sunrise/June solstice sunset directions as well. Abbreviations in the table: December solstice sunrise/June solstice sunset = dssr/jsss; June solstice sunrise/December solstice sunset = jssr/dsss.
