Browsing by Autor "Gonzalo Pereira Quiroga"

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    La Horca del Inca—an astronomical observatory?
    (Cambridge University Press, 2011) Gonzalo Pereira Quiroga
    Abstract While celebrating the International Year of Astronomy 2009, some government and private institutions in Bolivia pointed out the need to raise a petition to UNESCO and the IAU aimed at declaring the monument known as ‘La Horca del Inca’ (The Inca's Gallows) to be an astronomical World Heritage Site. The request was made because La Horca del Inca was assumed to be a pre-Columbian astronomical observatory. In this paper we analyze the reliability of that postulate through a twofold approach: 1) by examining the most relevant publications, both archaeological and astronomical, that conclude that the site was indeed a pre-Columbian astronomical observatory; and 2) by independently visiting and surveying the monument and its surrounding area.
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    Primera Escuela Interamericana De Astronomía Cultural
    (European Organization for Nuclear Research, 2016) Sixto Giménez Benítez; Cecilia Paula Gómez; Yasser A. Abdel-Hadi; Juan Antonio Belmonte; Johanna Broda; A. César González-García; Priscila Faülhaber; Magdi Fekri; Alejandro Martín López; Gonzalo Pereira Quiroga
    Los trabajos reunidos en este volumen, corresponden a las clases que dieron los autores durante la Primera Escuela Interamericana de Astronomía Cultural. La misma tuvo lugar en Noviembre de 2012 en la Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas de la Universidad Nacional de la Plata (Argentina).