ASTROARCHAEOLOGY  &   PALEOASTRONOMY

OF SARDINIAN – ITALY

                                                            

Roberto Ledda, independent researcher, “Ispettore Onorario per la Conservazione dei Monumenti della Soprintendenza Archeologica della Provincia di Cagliari per i Comuni di Muravera e Villaputzu”.

 

 

Complesso megalitico di Cuili Piras (Muravera-CA).

 

 ROBERTO LEDDA,  Cagliari (Sardinian-Italy), Tel. + 039-070-306344 (FIDO service);

E Mail : robledda@tin.it

Independent researcher: particularly interested in questions relative to the nuragic civilization and the Sardinian and western megalithism, presently studying existing correlation between some menhir complexes and the paleo-astronomy through the utilization of informatic procedures which I have expressly set up.

Governing analyst instructor in the Data Processing Center of Sardinia's Regional Authority Board;

Honorary Inspector of Archeology for the Archeological Authority of the provinces of Cagliari and Oristano, for the Boroughs of Muravera and Villaputzu, situated on the south-east coast of Sardinia;

School Leaving Certificate in the Arts;

Diploma as Archeological Guide ;

  

Complesso megalitico di Cuili Piras: i menhir che costituiscono il Cromlech, oggetto di studi mediante l' utilizzo di procedure informatiche;  

 

Complesso megalitico di Cuili Piras (Muravera-CA): allineamenti di menhirs nell'area centrale del Cromlech.

ACTIVITIES:

I carried out the census of the existing archeological muments in the Boroughs of Castiadas, Muravera and Villaputzu, which are made up of hundreds of monuments (protonuraghi, pseudonuraghi, nuraghi, nuragic forts, hypogean and 'passage-way' tombs, a few (21) menhir complexes consisting of dozens of elements fixed in the ground in the original orthoptic positions in particular, in the locality of Cuili Piras and Nuraghe Scalas in the Muravera territory, I recently discovered two menhir complexes (the first composed of 46 elements and the second of 42 elements), positioned in such a way as to form Cromlechs (prehistoris circie of upright stones) similar to the II Phase of Stonehenge.

 

 

Complesso megalitico di Stonehenge (GB) : gli aggregati di menhir visibili in primo piano sono simili a quelli esistenti, ancora nella posizione ortostatica originale, negli impianti megalitici di Cuili Piras e nuraghe Scalas.

 

Complesso Megalitico di N.ghe Scalas: Menhirs nell'area centrale dell'impianto.

 

 Complesso megalitico Nuraghe Scalas: Menhir nell' area Sud.

The structural survey was carried out and the azimuths originated by the alignment were calculated and this data, stored in a Data Base File and correlated with another DBF containing all the azimuths achieved by the rising and the setting of the Sun and of the Moon calculated for the area by the Astronomer Angelo Poma, the Director of the Astronomical Observatory at Poggio dei Pini in Capoterra, Cagliari.

The results were astonishing: all the astronomically significant elements of the Solar Calendar are perfectly identified and, simultaneously it is possible to correlate the lunations.

 

Complesso megalitico di Nuraghe Scalas: menhirs nel settore Est.

Therefore, it can be supposed that these megalithic complexes function as astronomical instruments in order to constitute a primitive but precise calendar and to presumably forecast eclipses of the Sun and of the Moon, similar to Stonehenge.

With the purpose of evaluating the accuracy of my conjectures regarding these megalithic complexes, I would like to correspond and exchange information, photographs, slides, planimetries and computer applied procedures to use on P.C. with other researchers in this field i'm sure Is carrying out similar studies to mine.

 

 Complesso megalitico di Nuraghe Scalas: l'area centrale vista da Ovest, nel rilievo visibile sulla sinistra é impiantato il protonuraghe toponimo dell'area.

PUBLICATIONS:

               R.Ledda, 1980:   Megalithic Monuments in the Sarrabus area, in "Archeologia Sarda";

                   R.Ledda, 1981:  The Stone Sky in the IBM Italia magazine n° 1/1981;

                   R.Ledda, 1984:  Sarda A burial, of the Roman Imperial Era, in the Susalei necropolis

                                      on the Costa Rey (Muravera CA) in "Archeologia " ;

                   R.Ledda, 1984:  The Stone Calendar in "S come Sardegna" publ. n° 4/1984 ;

                   R.Ledda, 1985:  “Archeological Census of the Muravera Territory”, published by ESA,

                                                  page 351 ;

                    R.Ledda, 1989: “Archeological Census in the Villaputzu Territory” published by Castello,

                                                 page 420.

 

 

ADDRESS:

ROBERTO LEDDA, 09127 CAGLIARI (SARDINIA-ITALY).

E-Mail : robledda@tin.it

Home page Internet - http://space.tin.it/scienza/roledda

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Phone number + 039 070 306344, (zip code 09127) Cagliari (Italy).