Easter Island: the Tongariki and Mataveri Solar Observatories Used a Common Methodology
History and Philosophy of Physics
2015-09-15 v2
Abstract
Two additional positions of the famous Mataveri calendar of Easter Island have been interpreted. The information about the stars of the Virgo constellation has been obtained, too. As a result, the archaic Rapanui name of the star Spica and the Hawaiian name of this star have been compared.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.07100,
title = {Easter Island: the Tongariki and Mataveri Solar Observatories Used a Common Methodology},
author = {Sergei Rjabchikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07100},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Archaeoastronomy; 6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; minor changes; references updated