Orientations of Sardinian Dolmens

Zedda Mauro Hoskin Michael Gralewski Renate and Manca Giacobbe , “Orientations of 230 Sardinian tombe di giganti”, Archaeoastronomy (supplement to Journal for the history of astronomy, no. 21 (1996), S33–54.

Ibid., S38.

Hoskin Michael Allan Elizabeth and Gralewski Renate , “Orientations of Corsican dolmens”, Journal for the history of astronomy, xxv (1994), 313–17, and “Further orientations of Corsican dolmens”, ibid., xxvi (1995), 247–52.

Hoskin Michael , “Mediterranean tombs and temples and their orientations”, paper given in September 1996 in Salamanca to the Société Européene pour Astronomie dans la Culture (in press).

Romano G. and Perissinotto M. , “Sugli orientamenti di alcuni dolmen pugliesi”, Giornale di astronomia, xi (1985), 537–44.

Ruggles Clive L. N. , “Whose equinox?”, Archaeoastronomy, no. 22 (1997), S45–50.

Review by Anthony F. Aveni of Stonehenge by North John , Nature, ccclxxxiii, issue of 3 October 1996, 403–4, p. 404.

See, for example, Ruggles C. L. N. , “A new study of the Aberdeenshire Recumbent Stone Circles, 1: Site data”, Archaeoastronomy, no. 6 (1984), S55–79, and Ruggles and Burl H. A. W. , “A new study …, 2: Interpretation”, Archaeoastronomy, no. 8 (1985), S25–60.

Romano Giuliano , Archeoastronomia italiana (Padua, 1992), 102–10.

Proverbio Edoardo , “Dolmen, tombe di gigante e sepolcri a tumulo in Puglia e in Sardegna: Aspetti astronomici”, Atti dei Convegni Lincei, cxxi (1995), 73–80, p. 77.

“One end of every Church doth point to such a Place, where the Sun did rise at the time the Foundation thereof was laid, which is the Reason why all Churches do not directly point to the East; for if the Foundation was laid in June, it pointed to the North-east, where the Sun rises at that time of the Year; if it was laid in the Spring or Autumn, it was directed full East; if in Winter, South-east; and by the standing of these Churches, it is known at what time of the Year the Foundations of them were laid”, Chauncy Henry Sir , The historical antiquities of Hertfordshire (London, 1700), i, 88.

Hoskin Michael Allan Elizabeth and Gralewski Renate , “The tombe di giganti and temples of Nuraghic Sardinia”, Archaeoastronomy, no. 18 (1993), S1–26, Table 7.

Lilliu G. , La civiltà dei Sardi dal paleolitico all'età dei nuraghi (Rome, 1988), 68.

Lilliu , op. cit. (ref. 12), 297.

Hoskin Michael Allan Elizabeth and Gralewski Renate , “Studies in Iberian archaeoastronomy: (1) Orientations of the megalithic sepulchres of Almería, Granada and Málaga”, Archaeoastronomy, no. 19 (1994), S55–82; idem, “Studies in Iberian archaeoastronomy: (2) Orientations of the tholos tombs of Almería”, Archaeoastronomy, no. 20 (1995), S29–40.

Palomo i Pérez Toni and Hoskin Michael , “Studies in Iberian archaeoastronomy: (4) The orientations of megalithic tombs of eastern Cataluña”, Journal for the history of astronomy (in press).

The most notable exception is the tumba di giganti at Quartucciu in the far south of Sardinia Zedda , op. cit. (ref. 1), Figs 14 and 15.

Romano and Perissinotto , op. cit. (ref. 5), 541.

Romano , Archeoastronomia italiana (ref. 9), 107.

Proverbio E. and Vlora N. R. , “Orientation of dolmenic tombs in Central Apulia”, European Meeting on Archeoastronomy & Ethnoastronomy, Strasbourg, 3–5 November 1992, ed. by Jaschek C. (Strasbourg, [1993]), 51–63.

Palomo and Hoskin , op. cit. (ref. 16).

Hoskin Michael and Colleagues, work in progress.