Archaeoastronomy

Group Members

• Göran Henriksson    goran.henriksson@astro.uu.se

Archaeoastronomy:   What is Archaeoastronomy?

Current Projects:

• Orientation of ancient monuments in Sweden
  • Swedish megalithic tombs at Falbygden

• Astronomical interpretations of rock carvings in Sweden
  • Swedish rock art

• Interpretations of astronomical information in the nordic sagas and medieval texts
  • The pagan Great Midwinter Sacrifice at Old Uppsala

Publications:

• Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, Report No. 59, Uppsala 2003
  Calendars, Symbols and Orientations: Legacies of Astronomy in Culture
  Proceedings of the 9th annual meeting of SEAC    Stockholm 27-30 August 2001

• Henriksson, G.   The pagan Great Midwinter Sacrifice and the 'royal' mounds at Old Uppsala   (pdf  1.7MB)
• Henriksson, G.   Nicolaus Copernicus' DNA found in Uppsala   (pdf  492kB)
• Henriksson, G.   The grooves on the island of Gotland in the Baltic sea: a neolithic lunar calendar   (pdf  541kB)
• Henriksson, G.   A New Chronology of the Old Babylonian Kingdom and Ur I-III Based on Identification of Solar and Lunar Eclipses   (pdf  840kB)
• Henriksson, G.   PREHISTORIC CONSTELLATIONS ON SWEDISH ROCK-CARVINGS   (pdf  680kB)
• Henriksson, G.   Solar Eclipses and Encke's Comet on Swedish Rock Carvings   (pdf  1.2MB)
• Henriksson, G.   Thales of Miletus, Archimedes and the Solar Eclipses on the Antikythera Mechanism   (pdf  0.4MB)
• Henriksson, G.   Lunar Secular Acceleration Supports a Modified Theory for Gravity   (pdf  83kB)
• Henriksson, G.   The Acceleration of the Moon and the Universe   (pdf  75kB)

Links:

• IAU:  Commission 41  History of Astronomy
• SEAC  European Society for Astronomy in Culture
• Center for Archaeoastronomy
• History of Astronomy:  Archaeoastronomy

• Archaeoastronomy
• Journal for the History of Astronomy

Last update :  Feb 22, 2012