Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2013, 1(1), 68-88
DOI: 10.24411/2310-2144-2013-00011
Analemmatic and horizontal sundials of the Bronze Age (Northern Black Sea Coast)
Larisa N. Vodolazhskaya1
1Southern Federal University (SFU), str. Zorge, 5, Rostov-on-Don, 344090, Russian Federation; E-mails: larisavodol@aaatec.org, larisavodol@gmail.com
Abstract
The paper presents the results of a study of unique slab with images of Srubna burial of tumuli group Popov Yar-2 (Ukraine) and slab of Srubna burial of tumulus field Tavriya-1 (Russia). A distinctive feature of the images is the orderliness and symmetry of the composition, as well as the location of elliptical cupped depressions. With the help of mathematical and astronomical methods we prove in this paper that the slabs with the images are the ancient sundials. At the Popov Yar-2 slab located two sundials, which worked at the same time: the analemmatic sundial and the horizontal sundial with two gnomons and the linear scale. At the Tavriya-1 slab located analemmatic sundial. On the basis of the reconstruction of the linear parameters of the gnomon of both Popov Yar-2 slab sundials and given the scale value of horizontal sundial, in the article that the potential indirect impact protoscientific knowledge of ancient Egypt to the Srubna population in the Northern Black Sea coast.
Keywords: Srubna burial, slab, wells, cupped depressions, analemmatic sundial, horizontal sundial, gnomon.
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