Bibcode
Rodríguez-Antón, A.; Belmonte, J. A.; González-García, A. C.
Referencia bibliográfica
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics IX, Proceedings of the XII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 18-22, 2016, in Bilbao, Spain, ISBN 978-84-606-8760-3. S. Arribas, A. Alonso-Herrero, F. Figueras, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, A. Sánchez-Lavega, S. Pérez-Hoyos (eds.), 2017 , p. 760-765
Fecha de publicación:
3
2017
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Descripción
Although the final definition of Archaeoastronomy is still under debate,
what is clear is that this discipline offers a different approach to the
knowledge of ancient cultures than traditional archaeology has done so
far. Archaeoastronomy considers the sky as an inseparabe part of the
environment and thus an element of the transformed landscape with highly
symbolic content. In the case of the Roman culture, the great colonizing
activity involved continuous spatial transformations and the skyscape
should be considered as a piece of the created urbanized spaces. For
this reason, a number of fieldwork campaigns were conducted in several
Roman cities across different regions of the ancient Roman Empire in
order to study the configuration of those landscapes and the possible
integration of the sky during the buiding processes. At the present, our
group has the largest sample of orientations of Roman settlements so
far, and here it is shown the preliminary results of an statistical
analysis which may offer new answers to the various still open questions
in Roman urbanism, often faced from conservative views.