Studies in Iberian Archaeoastronomy: (3) Customs and Motives in Andalucia

Hoskin Michael Allan Elizabeth Gralewski Renate , ‘Studies in Iberian archaeoastronomy: (1) Orientations of the megalithic sepulchres of Almería, Granada and Málaga’, Archaeoastronomy (supplement to Journal for the history of astronomy, no. 19 (1994), S55–82, and ‘(2) Orientations of the tholos tombs of Almería’, ibid., no. 20 (1995), S29–40.

For a discussion of possible motivations underlying the choice of tomb orientations, see Ruggles C. L. N. , ‘Megalithic astronomical sightlines: Current reassessment and future directions’, in Archaeoastronomy in the Old World, ed. by Heggie D. C. (Cambridge, 1982), 83–105, pp. 96–99.

Hoskin , op. cit. (ref. 1, 1994), S74.

This will be discussed in a later paper in this series.

Hoskin Michael , ‘Orientations of megalithic sepulchres in Salamanca, Spain’, Journal for the history of astronomy, xxiii (1992), 57–60.

Hoskin Michael Núñez José Morales Juan , ‘The orientations of the burial monuments of Menorca’, Archaeoastronomy (supplement to Journal for the history of astronomy, no. 16 (1991), S15–42.

Hachero Gornés Simó , ‘Nous monuments funeraris del món pretalaiòtic de Menorca’, in X jornades d'estudis històrics locals: La prehistòria de les illes de la Mediterrània occidental, ed. by Bordoy Rosselló G. (Palma de Mallorca, 1992), 419–41 (in Catalan).

See for example Romano Giuliano , Archeoastronomia italiana (Padua, 1992), 126–7, where thirteen tombe di giganti of Sardinia are said to face major and minor lunar standstills, α and β Cru, and α and ε Ori.