5. Analysis of Structures' Orientations in Archaeoastronomy: Methods for the Quantitative Statistical Assessment of Peaks in Composite Probability Distributions
From the Ground to the Sky - Ten Years of Skyscape Archaeology - Fabio Silva
José María Abril Hernández [+]
University of Seville
Department of Applied Physics I
Professor
Description
José M. Abril describes new approaches to assessing alignment measurements which are drawn from multiple different underlying distributions. He illustrates these methods by analysing the alignments of medieval Spanish churches, where some may have been carefully orientated towards specific narrow ranges of horizon, while most others faced more broadly towards a general quadrant of the sky. His analysis shows how we can untangle more complex patterns of human intention from our increasingly larger and more detailed datasets.