ASTRONOMICAL USE OF CERRO SACROMONTE
This work takes up research data from several years ago, from the end of the cent ury to be more precise; it deals with the sunrise registration during dates as solstices and equinoxes, among ot hers, that match pre-Hispanic festivities in turn. Registration was carried out from the entrance of the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia |
| Repositorio: | Redalyc-INAH |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:redalyc.org:57150516008 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57150516008 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas Archaeoastronomy |
| Sumario: | This work takes up research data from several years ago, from the end of the cent ury to be more precise; it deals with the sunrise registration during dates as solstices and equinoxes, among ot hers, that match pre-Hispanic festivities in turn. Registration was carried out from the entrance of the C hurch of The Sacromonte, located at the top of a hill, in the town of Amecameca, State of Mexico. This observati on showed the existence of a calendar’s horizon, where the Sun marks the seasons along the geographic landmarks, and where places of worship of pre-Hispanic times have been found in the high mountains as well as som e modern remains. |
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