Elevate Your Understanding: Test On Archaeoastronomy 56 Questions With 100% Correct Answers
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Describe the phenomenon that occurs at the Temple of Kukulcan on one of the two equinox days each year at sunset. - ️️Kukulcan- each side is 91 steps and there are 4 sides; 4X91+1= 365; keep time of vernal equinox (beginning of solar year) and the shadow of the temple creates a snake life shado...
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Archaeoastronomy 56 Questions
Describe the phenomenon that occurs at the Temple of Kukulcan on
one of the two equinox days each year at sunset. - ✔ ✔
Kukulcan- each side is 91 steps and there are 4 sides; 4X91+1= 365;
keep time of vernal equinox (beginning of solar year) and the shadow
of the temple creates a snake life shadow down the side of the
temple. IT's not that point that significant, it's the multitude. It is also
oriented to the four cardinal directions and on the first day of spring
andfall the sun sets exactly due west- which makes the snakkkeee
and appears to slither up the temple and to the heavens where it
belongs.
Describe the sun dagger phenomenon found in many places
throughout the American southwest. When we find alignments with
particular phenomena on the horizon, how do we determine whether
they are intentional or accidental? - ✔ ✔ Sun dagger
phenomenon- sun dagger uses three stones where the sun hits a
petroglyph and creates a dagger shadow on it. At noon, when the sun
is on the meridian on the summer solestice, the circular petroglyph is
split in half by the dagger. We can determine that they are intentional
because there are multiple sights and they are precise.
,Explain how Galileo's observations of Jupiter gave him the ability to
determine the time. Why was this method too difficult to use at sea? -
✔ ✔ The rocking of the ship was not stable which affected the
accuracy of viewing the path of Jupiter. so the results were not
reliable.
Explain how monuments like Stonehenge or tombs like Newgrange
may have helped ancient cultures establish a calendar or tell what
time of the year it was. - ✔ ✔ Stone Henge-outlier stones point
at various things in the sky. Heel stone is directly in front of the sun
rise in the summer solstice.
Newgrange- the opening faces sun rise on winter solstice. The light
on that day shines all the way to the back of the tomb; associated
with death.
They are both used to track solstices.
Explain how the date of Easter is determined each year. - ✔ ✔
Easter is after the first full moon after vernal equinox
Explain how the Egyptian 365 day calendar was organized and how
the Egyptians noticed it wasn't keeping accurate time with the solar
year as many years passed. - ✔ ✔ Serius rises 10 days earlier
and eventually that added up to where they were a month behind and
they knew that their calendar was imperfect.
, According to Anthony Aveni, the civilization that built Chichen Itza
lasted until about the 9th century AD. Aveni says there had been an
advanced, progressive civilization in that part of the world for at least
how many years in total? What are two pieces of evidence of their
advanced nature? - ✔ ✔ There had been an advanced,
progressive civilization for more than 3000 years total. Pieces of
evidence to show this include their advanced writing system and their
calendars based off of astronomy as see with their observatories.
According to Aveni, what is the significance of the number 13 in Mayan
culture? The calendar round is the amount of time it takes for the
260-day (sacred round) tzolkin and the 365-day (agricultural) haab
calendar to synch up again after starting together on day one. How
long is a calendar round, and what supposedly occurred at the end of
this cycle? - ✔ ✔ The number 13 represents the 13 layers of
heaven. The calendar round takes 52 years. It is a time of great
anxiety as the Mayans question whether they have done enough to
please the Gods. They wait for the star Pleatius to pass through the
sky again as a sign that they have done enough.
Another important number to the Maya was 13*20 = 260 days, a cycle
known as the tzolkin, or sacred round. Explain how we think this cycle
is related to motions of the Sun during the year as seen from a certain
latitude. - ✔ ✔ Zenith tubes were found that lighted
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