SCHEDULE OF SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
27 August, Tuesday Vanemuise 42, Estonian Literary Museum
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10.00 | Opening ceremony. Speech by Mrs. Ingrid Rüütel, Ph.D., wife of the president | |
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FIRST SESSION: ALIGNMENTS AND ORIENTATIONS IN MEGALITHIC MONUMENTS AND BURIALS |
| Chairs: Izold Pustõlnik (morning) and Mary Blomberg (afternoon)
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| 10.30 | Clive Ruggles Balancing Oral History with Alignment Studies: the Temple Platforms of Maui (Invited discourse) |
| 11.30 | Juan Antonio Belmonte On the Megalithic Monuments of the
Eastern Mediterranean: New Perspectives |
| 12.00 | Coffee break (presentation of art exhibition) |
| 12.30 | Katalin Barlai, M. Pócs Microhistory in "Basatanya
I" Copper Age Cemetery |
| 13.00 | Mary Blomberg, Göran Henriksson Problems in Minoan
Archaeoastronomy |
| 13.30 | Nyssanbay Bekbassar Astronomy in the Kazakh Folk
Culture |
| 14.00 | Lunch |
| 15.30 | Sightseeing tour in Tartu |
| 16.30 | Emilia Pasztor Some Comments on the Possible Explanation
of the Orientation of Minorca taulas |
| 17.00 | Marika Mägi Saaremaa in the First Millennium BC.
Cult Places, Graves and Fortified Settlements |
| 17.30 | Miklos Pócs, Endre Zsoldos, B. Szeidl The Orientation of
Graves from the Period of Conquest |
| 18.00 | Coffee break (presentation of art exhibition) |
| 18.30 | Florin Stanescu The Astronomical Orientation of Central Apses in Dacian Sanctuaries in Romania |
| 19.00 | Panel on Archaeoastronomy:
Mark Frenkel Astronomical and Calendarical Sense of Some Numbers in the Ancient
Literature;
Albert Chechelnitsky Heritage of the Global Ancient Civilization: Discrete
Structure, Great Belt of Megalithic Sites (Observatories) |
| 20.00 | Welcome reception |
28 August, Wednesday
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8.00 | Departure from Tartu to Viluste, Southern Estonia |
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SECOND SESSION: ECLIPSES, AURORA BOREALIS AND METEORITES AS MESSENGERS OF IMMINENT GLOBAL CATASTROPHY |
| Chair: Väino Poikalainen
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| 9.30 | Stanislaw Iwaniszewski Anticipating Catastrophes and
Predicting the Future: Calendrical-Adivinatory and Calendrical-Astronomical
Cycles in Mesoamerica (Invited discourse) |
| 10.30 | Jan-Erik Solheim The Northern Lights As Messenger From the Other Worlds and Harbinger of War and Disasters |
| 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.30 | Excursion to Ilumetsa meteorite site and Värska town |
| 14.00 | Lunch in Viluste |
| 15.00 | Arnold Lebeuf Terror of Eclipses |
| 15.30 | Panos Niarchos, Stratos Theodossiou, Manimanis, V. N. The
Fall of a Meteorite at Aegos Potami (467 B.C.). |
| 16.00 | Excursion to Meenikunno bog |
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THIRD SESSION: ROCK ART IN A COSMIC
PROSPECTIVE |
| Chair: Arnold Lebeuf
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| 18.00 | Enn Ernits On the Typology and Statistics of Astromorphs
of Lake Onega |
| 18.30 | Väino Poikalainen On the Role of Palaeoastronomic
Studies in the Appearance of the Estonian Society of Prehistoric Art |
| 19.00 | Andres Kuperjanov Archaeoastronomy in Estonia |
| 19.30 | Bo Sommarström Shamanic Clay Figurines from
Jettböle Stone Age Site at Åland |
| 20.00 | Dinner |
| 21.00 | Departure to Tartu |
29 August, Thursday
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8.30 | Departure from Tartu |
| 9.15 | Arrival to Tartu Observatory in Tõravere, welcome
address |
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FOURTH SESSION: HISTORY AND ICONOGRAPHY OF
CONSTELLATIONS |
| Chair: Juan Antonio Belmonte
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| 9.30 | Peter E. Blomberg Does Boötes Drive an Ox-drawn Wagon
on the Minoan Star Map? |
| 10.00 | Alla Lushnikova Round the Year with Elk and Deer |
| 10.30 | Izold Pustõlnik Does Modern Astrophysics Widen
Horizons of Archaeoastronomy? |
| 11.00 | Eduard Kaurov Observable Evolution of Draco
Constellation |
| 11.30 | Rafal Perkowski Cosmology and Astrology in the Philippe de
Thaon "Computus" |
| 12.00 | Coffee break |
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FIFTH SESSION: ARCHAEOASTRONOMIC MONUMENTS AS ANCIENT
OBSERVATORIES
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| 12.30 | Nikolai Bochkarev Ancient Armenian Astroarchaeological
Monuments: Personal Impressions of Metsamor and Carahunge |
| 13.00 | Leonid Marsadolov Astronomical Aspects of Monuments in
Semisart (Mountain Altai) |
| 13.30 | Panos Niarchos, Stratos Theodossiou, V. N. Manimanis The
"Dragon Houses" of Euboea. Ancient Megalithic Observatories? |
| 14.00 | Lunch |
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SIXTH SESSION: CALENDARS IN ARTEFACTS, FOLKLORE AND
LITERATURE |
| Chair: Alla Lushnikova
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| 15.30 | Göran Henriksson Astronomical Dating of the Old
Babylonian Kingdom |
| 16.00 | Albert Davletshin Once Upon a Time There was no Zero... The Evolution of the South-Eastern Mesoamerica's Calendric Notational System |
| 16.30 | Nikolai Sivkov Hermes and the Thracians' Notion of Cosmic
Time |
| 17.00 | Coffee break, presentation of art exhibition |
| 17.30 | Sergey Vitiaz, Valeryj Vinakurau The Cup-marked Stones
("Star Maps") in Belarus Territory |
| 18.00 | Libertas Klimka Astronomer M. Poczobut on Egypt Zodiac |
| 18.30 | Excursion in Tõravere (stellar mural mosiac, 1.5 m
telescope dome, stellarium) |
| 20.00 | Dinner |
| 21.00 | Round-Table Discussion: The Origin of Constellations:
Methodological Questions (Organizer & Moderator Roslyn M. Frank,
participants Clive Ruggles, Juan Antonio Belmonte, Arkadiusz Soltysiak). |
| 22.30 | Demonstration of stellar sky |
| 23.00 | Departure to Tartu |
30 August, Friday
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| SEVENTH SESSION: ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE RETRIEVED FROM ARTEFACTS
ND ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT FOLKLORE |
| Chairs: Mare Kõiva (morning) and Clive Ruggles
(afternoon)
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| 9.00 | Tamila Potemkina Sources of Cosmovisions in the World
Outlook of Ob-Ugrians |
| 9.30 | Barbara Rappenglück "Rushing through the Clashing
Rocks" - Does this Old Motive have an Astronomical Meaning? |
| 10.00 | Michael A. Rappenglück The Pivot of the Cosmos: The
Concepts of the World Axis Across Cultures |
| 10.30 | Coffee break |
| 11.00 | Arkadiusz Soltysiak Some Remarks on Possible Astral
Imagery in Hymiskvida and Gylfaginning 48 |
| 11.30 | Jonas Vaiskunas The Reflections of the Ancient Cosmovision
in the Decoration of Distaffs from Lithuania |
| 12.00 | Mare Kõiva Incantations and Cosmology |
| 12.30 | Coffee break |
| 13.00 | Jaak Jaaniste On the Time-Space Context of Moon-related
Beliefs |
| 13.30 | Vytautas Tumenas Celestial Phenomenon in the Symbolism of
Lithuanian Folk Sashes |
| 14.00 | Lunch |
| 15.00 | Mariusz Ziolkowski Les compagnons du Soleil et de la Lune: la métaphore astronomique du pouvoir inca (Companions of the Sun and Moon: Astronomical Metaphors of the Inca Rulership; summary in English) |
| 15.30 | Andrey Kuzmin The Murine Symbolism in Magic Ceremonials:
Reconstruction of Archaic Ideas Concerning the Milky Way |
| 16.00 | Francis X. Warther The Coming of Pele, Beginning Again to
Discover the Ancient Ways |
| 16.30 | Coffee break |
| 17.00 | Annual SEAC meeting |
| 19.00 | Closing dinner |
| 21.00 | Concert by composer Urmas Sisask |
Posters
| | Lidia Ashikhmina Scenes of the Cosmic Hunt on Early Iron Age Wares From the Northern Sub-Urals
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| | Albert M. Chechelnitsky Horizons of Physical Eschatology: Lost and New Knowledge about Antiquity and Fate of Man and World
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| | Demeter Ianos, Z. Maxim, T. Oproiu, I. Csillik Some Thoughts on Christian Churches in Transylvania
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| | Elena G. Sinitsyna Reflections of Aurora Borealis Phenomena As Seen in the Iranian Awesta (Yasna 9.11)
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| | Magda Stavinschi, Vasile Mioc Catastrophic Cosmic Events in the Roman Sky Through History
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Excursion
to Saaremaa
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