Nebra Disk

Pásztor, Emília

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“…They could have been used to determine the time for agriculture tasks upon which the survival of an agricultural population as the one of the castellieri depended. In fact, Orion, the Pleiades and Scorpius are among the most common sky asterisms in agriculture civilizations (Litchfield West 1976; Pásztor 2015; Pásztor & Roslund 2007; Schaefer 2005; Sun 2015). Hesiod in the VIII century BCE described the timing of the agricultural year with the heliacal rising of few main asterisms which include Orion and the Pleiades and

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Scorpii (Litchfield West 1976).…”

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“…The earliest possible dating of the disk corresponds to about 1800 BCE, but even considering the latest possible protohistoric date of 400 BCE, the representation of the sky on the stone remains significantly very old if compared to other similar finds. The oldest depiction of the sky is probably the Nebra disk from Germany dating around 1600 BCE (Meller 2002; Pásztor 2015; Pásztor & Roslund 2007; Schlosser 2002). The Nebra disk is a round bronze plate decorated with gold figures that represent the Moon, the Sun and the Pleiades.…”

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“…The Nebra disk is a round bronze plate decorated with gold figures that represent the Moon, the Sun and the Pleiades. However, the disk is more a representation of folk world view rather than an astronomical map (Pásztor 2015; Pásztor & Roslund 2007).…”

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Possible stellar asterisms carved on a protohistoric stone

Molaro,

Bernardini

2023

Astron Nachr

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Chisel marks on a stone uncovered in Rupinpiccolo protohistoric hill fort from north‐eastern Italy were suggested to be a representation of the night sky (Bernardini et al. 2022 Documenta Praehistorica XLIX). The patterns of the 29 marks are analyzed here to establish if they reproduce popular stellar asterisms. Nine marks are found to match the Tail of Scorpius and five the Orion's Belt, together with Rigel and Betelgeuse. Nine marks are found in the approximate position of the Pleiades showing some match with the cluster members. On the back side, 5 marks possibly reproduce Cassiopeia. One mark slightly North of Orion cannot be identified. The 28 marks show a Pearson correlation coefficient (28) with stellar positions higher than 0.99 with a probability of a wrong correlation lower than 0.001. Departures are about one degree, or about 7 mm, as the mean diameter of the marks, which suggests a manufacturing limitation in the charting. The fort dates 1800–400 BCE when Scorpius and Orion showed about the same orientation at the heliacal rising. The unidentified mark challenges the whole picture. We suggest it could have been the progenitor of a failed supernova, thus offering also the possibility of a verification.

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Scorpii (Litchfield West 1976).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Possible stellar asterisms carved on a protohistoric stone

Molaro,

Bernardini

2023

Astron Nachr

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“…If this interpretation is correct, the plain faces could be a representation of the Sun, while those covered with chisel marks of the night sky. Bronze Age representations of the night sky in the European Bronze Age are rare, and the Nebra disk from Germany is the most famous example (about 1600 BC ;Meller 2002;Schlosser 2002;Pásztor, Roslund 2007;Kristiansen 2010;Pásztor 2015;Pernicka et al 2020).…”

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Prehistoric Stone Disks from Entrances and Cemeteries of North-Eastern Adriatic Hillforts

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The paper presents a group of four, approximately 0.5m large, stone disks from entrances or cemeteries of two protohistoric hillforts of north-eastern Adriatic. The disks, having a sparse chronology with the exception of one dated to the Middle Bronze Age, show flat and plain surfaces or covered with sub-circular depressions. One disk shows two larger cup-marks at the centre of both faces. They are interpreted as ritual artefacts based on the association with sacred settlement locations and comparisons with similar coeval stones found mainly close to citadel entrances, burials and thresholds in the Aegean area and Anatolia.

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“…A group of seven stars was interpreted as the Pleiades, indicating that the Sky Disc may have been used for calendrical purposes (Schlosser 2003). The Nebra Disc is considered the earliest known astronomical representation of the night sky in northern Europe, even though the arrangement of stars on the Disc does not resemble any real constellation in the skypossibly with the exception of the Pleiades (Schlosser 2003;Pásztor 2015). The Disc's pattern may have been a pure symbolic expression of the cosmos with some reference to the iconographical system of the Nordic Bronze Age (Pásztor and Roslund 2007).…”

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Morphometric findings on the Nebra Sky Disc

Dathe

Krüger

2018

Time and Mind

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The so-called 'Nebra Sky Disc' is arguably the most important archaeological find in central Europe of the last two decades. It is a richly-decorated bronze plate with gold symbols, some of them being interpreted as the Sun, the crescent-shaped Moon and 32 stars. Being dated to the end of the Early Bronze Age around 1600 BC, the Sky Disc is considered the earliest known transportable astronomical representation of the night sky.Earlier works identified at least four phases in the history of the Disc. In this work we analyse the Disc's geometric pattern of the earliest phase, considering possible archaeoastronomical relations. Using mathematical techniques, we identify several potential geometric structures: We find that subsets of three or more Disc stars may represent straight alignments, and we argue that symmetries shown by parts of the geometric pattern may be related to an eight-or 16month calendarpossibly used as a calendrical device prior-ranking to a symbolic or decorative character.

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Nebra Disk

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Possible stellar asterisms carved on a protohistoric stone

Possible stellar asterisms carved on a protohistoric stone

Prehistoric Stone Disks from Entrances and Cemeteries of North-Eastern Adriatic Hillforts

Morphometric findings on the Nebra Sky Disc

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