THURSDAY, 6 April 2006
Morning - 19.00 Arrivals
19.00-22.00 Collection of Conference Material- Late Registration - Welcome Reception at Grand Hotel
NOTES: a) Each speaker is allocated 20 mins including 3 mins question time, b) chairpersons with technician are responsible for arranging projectors. Chairpersons are kindly requested to apply stringent rules to the time schedule.
FRIDAY, 7 April 2006
Morning Session: HISTORICAL ASTRONOMY AND CULTURE
Chairpersons: C. Ruggles, G. Magli
8.45-9.00 Welcome Address
9.00-9.20 A. Ghignoli and V. F. Polcaro: “The 11th Century astronomical events in the European Middle Age documents”
8.50-9.10 A. Jones: “The astronomical inscription from Keskinto, Rhodes: a new edition and interpretations”
9.10-9.30 E. Pásztor and C. Roslund: “ Some comments on the astronomical interpretation of the Nebra disc”
9.50-10.10 S. Dimitrakoudis, P. Papaspyrou, V. Petoussis, X. Moussas: “Archaic artifacts resembling celestial spheres”
10.10-10.30 S. Iwaniszewski: “Lunar agriculture in Mesoamerica”
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.20 A. Belenkiy: “History of one defeat: reform of the Julian Calendar as envisaged by Isaac Newton”
11.20-11.50 J. Steele: “Greek influence on Babylonian astronomy?”
11.50-12.10 P. Blomberg: “On the origins of the modern star map”
12.10-12.30 B. Pustylnik: “Can the principle of Occam's razor be instrumental in solving the old enigma of the lost star in Pleiades?”
12.30-12.50 A. Kuzmin: “Little-known episodes in the history of optical observations in astronomy on the border of 16th and 17th centuries”
12.50-13.10 A. Coustenis: “Early observations of Titan and other natural satellites”
13.00-15.00 Lunch at Grand Hotel
Evening Session: ARCHAEOASTRONOMICAL ORIENTATIONS
Chairperson: M. Edmunds, E. Pasztor
17.00-17.20 A. Polcaro and V. F. Polcaro:”Early Bronze Age dolmens in Jordan and their orientations”
17.20-17.40 J. Macdonald: “New media applications and their potential for the advancement of public perceptions of archaeoastronomy and for the testing of archaeoastronomical hypotheses”
17.40-18.00 J. A. Belmonte, A. T. Gaspar and Mª A. P. Betancort: “On the orientation of Pre-Islamic temples of North-West Africa: A reappraisal new data in Africa Proconsularis”
18.00-18.20 Coffee Break
18.20-18.40 M. Blomberg and G. Henriksson: “Orientations of the Minoan palace at Phaistos in Crete”
18.40-19.00 M. P. Zedda, G. Thury-Bouvet, S. Jean-François, El Hadi Khoumeri, M. Pili: “Orientations of the Menhirs alighments of Corsica and Sardinia”
19.00-19.20 C. Gonzalez-Garcia and L. Costa-Ferrer: “Orientation of megaliths in Germany and the Netherlands”
19.20-19.40 G. Magli: “Polygonal walls in the Latium Vetus: astronomical alignments and Geometrical Symmetries”
19.40-20.00 L. Sims: “What is a lunar standstill? Problems of validity and accuracy in archaeoastronomy”
21.00 Dinner at the International Centre for Writers and Translators, Rhodes.
SATURDAY, 8 April 2006
Morning Session: ARCHAEOLOGY, LANDSCAPE AND ASTRONOMY
Chairpersons: Stanislaw Iwaniszewski, Xenophon Moussas
8.30-8.50 G. Banos: “A taurus map on a Minoan vase?”
8.50-9.10 A. Coucouzeli: “Astronomy, mathematics and town planning in Eighth Century B.C. Greece: the Zagora cryptograph”
9.10-9.30 M. Edmunds: “Landscapes, circles and Antikythera: the birth of the mechanical universe”
9.30-9.50 R. Alonzo: “Astronomy: an influence of cro-magnon’s migration to Western Europe”
9.50-10.10 Coffee Break
10.10-10.30 G. Dimitriadis and I. Iliades: “Sunlight beam as “optical guide” in the reading of ancient monuments”
10.30-10.50 G. Pantazis and E. Lambrou: “On the date of early Christian Basilicas (Central Greece)”
10.50-11.10 R. Frank: “The dolmens and menhirs of Korea”
11.10-11.30 F. Prendergast: “Irish passage tombs - new perspectives on orientations”
11.30-13.00 Monte Smith. Ancient Stadium, Apollo Temple, Ancient Theater. Observation with telescope.
13.30 Lunch at Grand Hotel
Evening Session: OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY: CULT & CALENDARS
Chairpersons: F. Prendergast, M. Blomberg
17.00-17.20 S. Kravaritou: “Greek ‘Calendars’ and symbolic representation of the cosmic order: seasonal rites for Demeter”
17.20-17.40 G. Henriksson: “The Trojan War dated by two solar eclipses”
17.40-18.00 E. Pásztor and J. P. Barna: “The Neolithic round ditch systems and their orientations in the Carpathian Basin”
18.00-18.20 M. Mickelson and C. Higbie: “Greek temple alignments revisited: new measurements and a survey of earlier work”
18.20-18.40 Coffee Break
18.40-19.00 C. Ruggles: “Return to Wessex: solstitial alignments in context”
19.00-19.20 I. Liritzis and H. Vassiliou: “Further orientation measurements of Greek Byzantine Churches”
19.20-19.40 I. Iliades: “The orientation of Byzantine churches in eastern Macedonia and Thrace”
19.40-20.00 M. Mickelson: “Observational archaeoastronomy at the Newark Earthworks”
20.00-20.20 P. Gregoriadis: “The Minoan calendar and its function”
20.20-20.40 A. Laoupi: “The Sirius’ cult in Ancient Greece, Aristaios and the formation of the Attico-Cycladic mythological substratum”
21.00 Dinner at Ialyssos (by bus)
SUNDAY, 9 April 2006
Morning
8.30-15.00 Guided Excursion to Lindos and Filerimos (Ialyssos). Return to Kalithea for Lunch and Rhodes (Grand Hotel)
Evening Session
17.30-19.30 SEAC Committee Meeting
19.30-20.00 Question Time on all Earlier Presentations
Chairpersons: L. Sims, J. Holbrook
19.00-19.50 Open Lecture to the Rhodean Public by Prof Xenophon Moussas On Ancient Rhodean Astronomers, at the University of the Aegean (in Greek)
21.00 Dinner at Grand Hotel
MONDAY, 10 April 2006
Morning Session: COSMIC IMAGES IN ANCIENT CULTURES
Chairpersons: J. Belmonte, M. Rappengluck
8.30-8.50 G. Dimitriadis: “Bronze Age cosmology and rock art images: solar ships, deer and charts”
8.50-9.10 M. Rappenglück: “The whole world put between to shells: the cosmic symbolism of tortoises and turtles”
9.10-9.30 P. A. Chapman-Rietschi and Anne Chapman-Rietschi: “Sappho and the astral sciences”
9.30-9.50 G. Dimitriadis: “The Sky landscape over an archaeological site (preliminary theoretical approach in the perception of the sky as part of the archaeological site)”
9.50-10.10 B. Rappenglück and M. Rappenglück: “Does the myth of Phaethon reflect an impact? Revising the fall of Phaethon and considering a possible relation to the Chiemgau impact”
10.10-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.30 ROUND TABLE ON EDUCATION IN ARCHAEOASTRONOMY
Chairperson & Moderator: Clive Ruggles
Short presentations & Discussion
T. F. Slater and J. Holbrook: “First steps to initiating a new Graduate Program in Astronomy & Culture at the University Of Arizona”
13.30 Lunch at ASTER
Evening Session: MISCELLANEA
Chairperson: A. Jones, G. Dimitriades
17.30-17.50 R. Santilli: “The sirente crater and the Roman municipium of superaequum in the Abruzzo, Central Italy”
17.50-18.10 J. Holbrook: “Synergistic cultural astronomy activities for the total solar eclipse in Ghana”
18.10-18.30 N. Matsopoulos, The rise of Archeoastronomy in Greece. A step to extreme nationalism?
18.30-1850 D. Aleksovski: “Cocev Kamen” (Tsotse’s Stone), the excavation site which joins the grounds for sacrificial rituals, a temple, painted rock art, and a prehistoric observatory”
18.50-19.30 Further Question time on all presentations and Closing remarks.
Chairpersons: J. Belmonte, I. Liritzis,
20.30 Closing Dinner at Grand Hotel