Astronomical orientations of graves and skeletons in Gomolova and Mokrin.

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Oct 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996pobeo..54..199v&link_type=abstract

Publications of the Astronical Observatory of Belgrade, No. 54, p. 199 - 202

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Archaeoastronomy

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The orientations of 25 skeletons in Gomolova cemetery, and 146 graves and 171 skeletons in Mokrin cemetery has been determined. On the basis of the presented method their angular distributions has been studied. The authors found that the bodies at Gomolova were oriented toward the azimuths of sunrise on the day of death or burial, while their results for Mokrin show that the graves and skeletons were oriented in N-S direction and it appeared that the dead faces pointed toward the point of sunrise.

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