Time and a Place: A luni-solar 'time-reckoner' from 8th millennium BC Scotland

Gaffney, Vincent; Fitch, Simon; Ramsey, Eleanor; Yorston, Ronald; Ch’ng, Eugene; Baldwin, Eamonn; Bates, Richard; Gaffney, Chris; Ruggles, Clive; Sparrow, Tom; McMillan, Anneley; Cowley, Dave; Fraser, Shannon; Murray, Charles Augustus; Murray, Hilary; Hopla, Emma; Howard, Andrew S.

doi:10.11141/ia.34.1

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“…2 (Magli, 2016). Neolithic and megalithic archaeological constructions measuring year time equinoxes and solstices have also been described throughout world (Goffney et al, 2013). Fig.…”

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A Lunisolar Prehistoric Calendar in Lanzarote Island: "La Quesera" (Cheeseboard) from Zonzamas

Medina¹,

Arnaiz‐Villena²

2017

Int.J.Mod.Anthrop

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“…2 (Magli, 2016). Neolithic and megalithic archaeological constructions measuring year time equinoxes and solstices have also been described throughout world (Goffney et al, 2013). Fig.…”

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A Lunisolar Prehistoric Calendar in Lanzarote Island: "La Quesera" (Cheeseboard) from Zonzamas

Medina¹,

Arnaiz‐Villena²

2017

Int.J.Mod.Anthrop

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“…The datasets demonstrate the details of the algorithms in mapping SIL. Figure 9 is a capture and mapping of a SIL 15 July 2013 for 9 days on the press release related to the publication of the discovery of "World's Oldest Calendar" [18]. There were 44 datasets (5 hourly each data point), which have been combined into a single map in Figure 9.…”

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Social information landscapes

Ch’ng

2015

Industrial Management &Amp; Data Systems

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Purpose -This article presents a Big Data solution as a methodological approach to the automated collection, cleaning, collation and mapping of multimodal, longitudinal datasets from social media. The article constructs Social Information Landscapes. Design/methodology/approach -The research presented here adopts a Big Data methodological approach for mapping user-generated contents in social media. The methodology and algorithms presented are generic, and can be applied to diverse types of social media or user-generated contents involving user interactions, such as within blogs, comments in product pages and other forms of media, so long as a formal data structure proposed here can be constructed. Findings -The limited presentation of the sequential nature of content listings within social media and Web 2.0 pages, as viewed on Web browsers or on mobile devices, do not necessarily reveal nor make obvious an unknown nature of the medium; that every participant, from content producers, to consumers, to followers and subscribers, including the contents they produce or subscribed to, are intrinsically connected in a hidden but massive network. Such networks when mapped, could be quantitatively analysed using social network analysis (e.g., centralities), and the semantics and sentiments could equally reveal valuable information with appropriate analytics. Yet that which is difficult is the traditional approach of collecting, cleaning, collating and mapping such datasets into a sufficiently large sample of data that could yield important insights into the community structure and the directional, and polarity of interaction on diverse topics. This research solves this particular strand of problem. Research limitations/implications -The automated mapping of extremely large networks involving hundreds of thousands to millions of nodes, over a long period of time could possibly assist in the proving or even disproving of theories. The goal of this article is to demonstrate the feasibility of using automated approaches for acquiring massive, connected datasets for academic inquiry in the social sciences. Practical implications -The methods presented in this article, and the Big Data architecture presented here have great practical values to individuals and institutions which have low budgets. The software-hardward integrated architecture uses open source software, and the social information landscapes mapping algorithms are not difficult to implement. Originality/value -The majority of research in the literatures uses traditional approach for collecting social networks data. The traditional approach is slow, tedious and does not yield a large enough sample for the data to be significant for analysis. Whilst traditional approach collects only a small percentage of data, the original methods presented could possibility collect entire datasets in social media due to its scalability and automated mapping techniques.

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“…A observação sistemática do céu é praticada há muito tempo; um dos calendários mais antigos, descoberto na atual Escócia, data aproximadamente do ano 8.000 a.C. [1].…”

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Uma Unidade de Ensino Potencialmente Significativa para as Estações do Ano

Pellenz¹,

Giovannini²

2017

Sci. cum Ind.

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ResumoO artigo apresenta a avaliação de uma unidade de ensino sobre as estações do ano com potencial para a promoção da aprendizagem significativa em estudantes do Ensino Fundamental. Estudos mostram que a causa das estações do ano é pouco compreendida por estudantes e professores de Educação Básica e concepções alternativas para a explicação desse fenômeno são comuns no ambiente escolar. Diante desse cenário, construiu-se uma Unidade de Ensino Potencialmente Significativa (UEPS), sobre as estações do ano, e aplicou-se em turmas do oitavo e nono ano do Ensino Fundamental. As UEPS são sequências didáticas fundamentadas na Teoria da Aprendizagem Significativa em que, partindo do conhecimento prévio dos estudantes, atividades são estruturadas em uma sequência lógica a fim de promover a interação dos novos conhecimentos com o que o estudante já sabe facilitando a ocorrência dos processos de diferenciação progressiva e da reconciliação integradora. Os diferentes instrumentos avaliativos utilizados no decorrer da aplicação da UEPS favoreceram a ocorrência dos processos de diferenciação e reconciliação na medida em que as ações eram realizadas. Portanto, a UEPS contribuiu para a compreensão do mecanismo da causa das estações do ano, fornecendo indícios da ocorrência da aprendizagem significativa nos estudantes. Palavras-chaveEnsino fundamental, estações do ano, aprendizagem significativa A Potentially Meaningful Teaching Unit for the Seasons of the Year AbstractThe paper presents the evaluation of a teaching unit on the seasons of the year with potential to promote the meaningful learning in middle school students. Researches on astronomy education show that the cause of the seasons is little understood by teachers and students and misconceptions about the explanation of this phenomenon is common in the classroom. Given this scenario, a Potentially Meaningful Teaching Unit (PMTU) on the seasons of the year was constructed and applied for eighth and ninth grade students of middle school. PMTU are didactic sequences based on Meaningful Learning Theory in which, from the prior knowledge of students, activities are structured in a logical sequence in order to promote the interaction of new knowledge with what the student already knows facilitating the occurrence of processes progressive differentiation and integrative reconciliation. The different evaluation instruments used during the PMTU application indicate the occurrence of differentiation and reconciliation processes while the actions were carried out. Therefore, the PMTU contributed to the understanding of the mechanism of the cause of the seasons, providing evidence of meaningful learning in students. KeywordsMiddle school, seasons of the year, meaningful learning INTRODUÇÃO A astronomia é a ciência que se baseia na observação dos corpos celestes e dos fenômenos a eles relacionados. A observação sistemática do céu é praticada há muito tempo; um dos calendários mais antigos, descoberto na atual Escócia, data aproximadamente do ano 8.000 a.C. [1].Fases da Lua, eclips...

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Time and a Place: A luni-solar 'time-reckoner' from 8th millennium BC Scotland

Cited by 29 publications

References 17 publications

A Lunisolar Prehistoric Calendar in Lanzarote Island: "La Quesera" (Cheeseboard) from Zonzamas

A Lunisolar Prehistoric Calendar in Lanzarote Island: "La Quesera" (Cheeseboard) from Zonzamas

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Uma Unidade de Ensino Potencialmente Significativa para as Estações do Ano

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