Juan Antonio Belmonte
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4184834 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Juan Antonio Belmonte |
| NOMBRES | Juan Antonio |
| APELLIDO | Belmonte |
| FIRMA | BELMONTE J A |
| AFILIACIONES | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8357-0564 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Withdrawal
WITHDRAWAL: Rodríguez‐Antón, A., A. C. González‐García, M. A. AlMushawh, and J. A. Belmonte. 2025. “Archaeology, Epigraphy and Skyscape: Keys to Understanding Dadanite and Lihyanite Conception of Time.” Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy (Early View). https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12264 . The above article, published online on 03 January 2025 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the authors; the…
An Archaeology of the Sky in Gaul in the Augustan Period
Ancient Gaul was transformed during the reign of Augustus (r. 31 BC–14 AD) through a major programme of city building. The new Roman cities were constructed according to topographic, health and ritual considerations, and we hypothesise that their orientations also reflect distinct celestial conceptions held by the Gauls and by the Roman emperor Augustus. Our study of the orientation of 60 cities verifies the existence of coherent patterns, and di…
On the Orientation of Historic Christian Churches of Fuerteventura
We present the results of an analysis of the precise spatial orientation of colonial Christian churches located in the Canary Island of Fuerteventura (Spain). Our sample consists of 48 churches, most built during the period between the Castilian conquest led by the Norman Jean de Béthencourt in the early fifteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century. While most of the religious constructions in the sample have their main axes oriented w…
Archaeoastronomy and the alleged 'Stonehenge calendar
In a recent Antiquity article, Darvill (2022) proposed that the mid third-millennium BC Stage 2 sarsen settings of Stonehenge (comprising the Trilithon Horseshoe, Sarsen Circle and the Station Stone Rectangle) were conceived in order to represent a calendar year of 365.25 days-that is, a calendar identical in duration to the Julian calendar. In the present article, the authors argue that this proposal is unsubstantiated, being based as it is on a…
Ad orientem
En este trabajo se examina, desde la perspectiva de la Astronomía Cultural, si las iglesias románicas del Camino de Santiago siguen un patrón de orientación común a todas ellas. Para ello, se ha obtenido la orientación de 191 templos en los antiguos reinos de León y Castilla, y se ha realizado un estudio comparativo. Ambos reinos comparten orientaciones hacia la salida del sol el domingo de Pascua, probablemente obtenidas en su mayoría mediante o…
Supplementary Video 2 to 'Lunar Standstills or Lunistices, Reality or Myth?' by A. César González-García and Juan A. Belmonte
There is an intense debate in cultural astronomy on the importance of lunar standstills in prehistory or antiquity, and even on whether this elusive and difficult-to-understand phenomenon actually was then recognised. In the present paper, we seek to address those who advocate no longer using the terms "lunar standstill" or the related "lunistice". We begin by clarifying what the concept actually involves, before highlighting some case studies wh…
Supplementary Video 1 to 'Lunar Standstills or Lunistices, Reality or Myth?' by A. César González-García and Juan A. Belmonte
There is an intense debate in cultural astronomy on the importance of lunar standstills in prehistory or antiquity, and even on whether this elusive and difficult-to-understand phenomenon actually was then recognised. In the present paper, we seek to address those who advocate no longer using the terms "lunar standstill" or the related "lunistice". We begin by clarifying what the concept actually involves, before highlighting some case studies wh…
Determinación de orientaciones de ciudades romanas por medio de la varatio
En el presente artículo se aborda la tan debatida cuestión de las orientaciones de ciudades romanas combinando dos procedimientos: un análisis estadístico de las orientaciones de una muestra significativa de ciudades romanas en la península ibérica, y los resultados de una investigación basada en la experimentación y reconstrucción de instrumental de agrimensura romana. En concreto, se busca reforzar, o rechazar, la hipótesis del empleo de la var…
Lunar Standstills or Lunistices, Reality or Myth
There is an intense debate in cultural astronomy on the importance of lunar standstills in prehistory or antiquity, and even on whether this elusive and difficult-to-understand phenomenon actually was then recognised. In the present paper, we seek to address those who advocate no longer using the terms "lunar standstill" or the related "lunistice". We begin by clarifying what the concept actually involves, before highlighting some case studies wh…
Atrapando el Solsticio? Un análisis crítico de la orientación de los templos de Deir el-Bahari
The temples of Deir el-Bahari were studied in earlier campaigns carried out during the last decade within the framework of the Archaeoastronomy Mission of Ancient Egypt; in particular those of Mentuhotep II and Hatshepsut. Although they seem to belong to the family of temples oriented to the rising sun at the winter solstice, this orientation was not as precise as would be expected for temples of such importance. Therefore, after resuming work in…
Estimating the Reliability of Digital Data Acquisition in Cultural Astronomy
Digital tools are increasingly used in cultural astronomy, so that it is now more important than ever to assess their precision and reliability, and to identify what uncertainties they may introduce. The present work aims to address these issues by comparing a dataset of orientations of Roman cities in the Iberian Peninsula measured in situ with measurements of the same structures obtained through different digital tools. By this, it is possible …
Urban Planning in the First Unfortified Spanish Colonial Town
The city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain) is of exceptional value as the first unfortified colonial city to follow regular plan - a grid, outlined by straight streets that form squares - in the overseas European expansion. It constitutes a historical example of the so-called "Town of Peace", the archetype of a city-republic in a new land that employed its own natural boundaries to delimit and defend itself. F…
Is There a Conflict between Archaeology and Archaeoastronomy
Landscape construction and time reckoning in Iron Age Celtic Iberia
In this paper, we report on three areas of the Iberian Peninsula that were occupied at least during the Iron Age and the early stages of Romanisation, where observations of astronomical phenomena in the landscape, rock carvings, and Latin inscriptions point to a particular method of time reckoning. All of these sites have previously been connected with the Celtic culture. The knowledge of the natural world that Classical sources assigned to these…
Nemrud Dag
The Pillars of the Earth and the Sky
Some cities were built with the idea of establishing cosmic order. The sky used to be a very important component of the landscape that has been lost completely in our modern, overcrowded, and excessively illuminated, cities. However, this was not the case in the past. Astronomy actually played a most relevant role in urban planning, particularly in the organization of sacred spaces which were later surrounded by extensive civil urban areas. Today…
C. Cornelius C. F. Sedbal. Nuevo ejemplo de antroponimia feniciopúnica en Carthago Noua
Presentamos un grafito realizado en una jarra fechada en torno a la segunda mitad del s. I a. C., que fue halladadurante la excavación realizada en uno de los barrios de artesanos y comerciantes de CarthagoNoua, y que actualmentese localiza en el denominado Pasaje Conesa. La inscripción se ha realizado post cocturam y con ella, presumiblemente,se refleja la posesión de dicha pieza. Se trata de un ciudadano romano, con trianomina y filiación, conu…
Estableciendo la mЗt en el Egipto Antiguo
TdE 5/1 (2009)
Lunar Standstills or Lunistices, Reality or Myth
There is an intense debate in cultural astronomy on the importance of lunar standstills in prehistory or antiquity, and even on whether this elusive and difficult-to-understand phenomenon actually was then recognised. In the present paper, we seek to address those who advocate no longer using the terms "lunar standstill" or the related "lunistice". We begin by clarifying what the concept actually involves, before highlighting some case studies wh…
Estimating the Reliability of Digital Data Acquisition in Cultural Astronomy
Digital tools are increasingly used in cultural astronomy, so that it is now more important than ever to assess their precision and reliability, and to identify what uncertainties they may introduce. The present work aims to address these issues by comparing a dataset of orientations of Roman cities in the Iberian Peninsula measured in situ with measurements of the same structures obtained through different digital tools. By this, it is possible …
The Pillars of the Earth and the Sky
Some cities were built with the idea of establishing cosmic order. The sky used to be a very important component of the landscape that has been lost completely in our modern, overcrowded, and excessively illuminated, cities. However, this was not the case in the past. Astronomy actually played a most relevant role in urban planning, particularly in the organization of sacred spaces which were later surrounded by extensive civil urban areas. Today…
Urban Planning in the First Unfortified Spanish Colonial Town
The city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain) is of exceptional value as the first unfortified colonial city to follow regular plan - a grid, outlined by straight streets that form squares - in the overseas European expansion. It constitutes a historical example of the so-called "Town of Peace", the archetype of a city-republic in a new land that employed its own natural boundaries to delimit and defend itself. F…
Estableciendo la mЗt en el Egipto Antiguo
TdE 5/1 (2009)
C. Cornelius C. F. Sedbal. Nuevo ejemplo de antroponimia feniciopúnica en Carthago Noua
Presentamos un grafito realizado en una jarra fechada en torno a la segunda mitad del s. I a. C., que fue halladadurante la excavación realizada en uno de los barrios de artesanos y comerciantes de CarthagoNoua, y que actualmentese localiza en el denominado Pasaje Conesa. La inscripción se ha realizado post cocturam y con ella, presumiblemente,se refleja la posesión de dicha pieza. Se trata de un ciudadano romano, con trianomina y filiación, conu…
Nemrud Dag
The Pillars of the Earth and the Sky
Some cities were built with the idea of establishing cosmic order. The sky used to be a very important component of the landscape that has been lost completely in our modern, overcrowded, and excessively illuminated, cities. However, this was not the case in the past. Astronomy actually played a most relevant role in urban planning, particularly in the organization of sacred spaces which were later surrounded by extensive civil urban areas. Today…
Landscape construction and time reckoning in Iron Age Celtic Iberia
In this paper, we report on three areas of the Iberian Peninsula that were occupied at least during the Iron Age and the early stages of Romanisation, where observations of astronomical phenomena in the landscape, rock carvings, and Latin inscriptions point to a particular method of time reckoning. All of these sites have previously been connected with the Celtic culture. The knowledge of the natural world that Classical sources assigned to these…
Is There a Conflict between Archaeology and Archaeoastronomy
Estimating the Reliability of Digital Data Acquisition in Cultural Astronomy
Digital tools are increasingly used in cultural astronomy, so that it is now more important than ever to assess their precision and reliability, and to identify what uncertainties they may introduce. The present work aims to address these issues by comparing a dataset of orientations of Roman cities in the Iberian Peninsula measured in situ with measurements of the same structures obtained through different digital tools. By this, it is possible …
Urban Planning in the First Unfortified Spanish Colonial Town
The city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain) is of exceptional value as the first unfortified colonial city to follow regular plan - a grid, outlined by straight streets that form squares - in the overseas European expansion. It constitutes a historical example of the so-called "Town of Peace", the archetype of a city-republic in a new land that employed its own natural boundaries to delimit and defend itself. F…
Atrapando el Solsticio? Un análisis crítico de la orientación de los templos de Deir el-Bahari
The temples of Deir el-Bahari were studied in earlier campaigns carried out during the last decade within the framework of the Archaeoastronomy Mission of Ancient Egypt; in particular those of Mentuhotep II and Hatshepsut. Although they seem to belong to the family of temples oriented to the rising sun at the winter solstice, this orientation was not as precise as would be expected for temples of such importance. Therefore, after resuming work in…
Supplementary Video 2 to 'Lunar Standstills or Lunistices, Reality or Myth?' by A. César González-García and Juan A. Belmonte
There is an intense debate in cultural astronomy on the importance of lunar standstills in prehistory or antiquity, and even on whether this elusive and difficult-to-understand phenomenon actually was then recognised. In the present paper, we seek to address those who advocate no longer using the terms "lunar standstill" or the related "lunistice". We begin by clarifying what the concept actually involves, before highlighting some case studies wh…
Supplementary Video 1 to 'Lunar Standstills or Lunistices, Reality or Myth?' by A. César González-García and Juan A. Belmonte
There is an intense debate in cultural astronomy on the importance of lunar standstills in prehistory or antiquity, and even on whether this elusive and difficult-to-understand phenomenon actually was then recognised. In the present paper, we seek to address those who advocate no longer using the terms "lunar standstill" or the related "lunistice". We begin by clarifying what the concept actually involves, before highlighting some case studies wh…
Determinación de orientaciones de ciudades romanas por medio de la varatio
En el presente artículo se aborda la tan debatida cuestión de las orientaciones de ciudades romanas combinando dos procedimientos: un análisis estadístico de las orientaciones de una muestra significativa de ciudades romanas en la península ibérica, y los resultados de una investigación basada en la experimentación y reconstrucción de instrumental de agrimensura romana. En concreto, se busca reforzar, o rechazar, la hipótesis del empleo de la var…
Lunar Standstills or Lunistices, Reality or Myth
There is an intense debate in cultural astronomy on the importance of lunar standstills in prehistory or antiquity, and even on whether this elusive and difficult-to-understand phenomenon actually was then recognised. In the present paper, we seek to address those who advocate no longer using the terms "lunar standstill" or the related "lunistice". We begin by clarifying what the concept actually involves, before highlighting some case studies wh…
Ad orientem
En este trabajo se examina, desde la perspectiva de la Astronomía Cultural, si las iglesias románicas del Camino de Santiago siguen un patrón de orientación común a todas ellas. Para ello, se ha obtenido la orientación de 191 templos en los antiguos reinos de León y Castilla, y se ha realizado un estudio comparativo. Ambos reinos comparten orientaciones hacia la salida del sol el domingo de Pascua, probablemente obtenidas en su mayoría mediante o…
An Archaeology of the Sky in Gaul in the Augustan Period
Ancient Gaul was transformed during the reign of Augustus (r. 31 BC–14 AD) through a major programme of city building. The new Roman cities were constructed according to topographic, health and ritual considerations, and we hypothesise that their orientations also reflect distinct celestial conceptions held by the Gauls and by the Roman emperor Augustus. Our study of the orientation of 60 cities verifies the existence of coherent patterns, and di…
On the Orientation of Historic Christian Churches of Fuerteventura
We present the results of an analysis of the precise spatial orientation of colonial Christian churches located in the Canary Island of Fuerteventura (Spain). Our sample consists of 48 churches, most built during the period between the Castilian conquest led by the Norman Jean de Béthencourt in the early fifteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century. While most of the religious constructions in the sample have their main axes oriented w…
Archaeoastronomy and the alleged 'Stonehenge calendar
In a recent Antiquity article, Darvill (2022) proposed that the mid third-millennium BC Stage 2 sarsen settings of Stonehenge (comprising the Trilithon Horseshoe, Sarsen Circle and the Station Stone Rectangle) were conceived in order to represent a calendar year of 365.25 days-that is, a calendar identical in duration to the Julian calendar. In the present article, the authors argue that this proposal is unsubstantiated, being based as it is on a…
Withdrawal
WITHDRAWAL: Rodríguez‐Antón, A., A. C. González‐García, M. A. AlMushawh, and J. A. Belmonte. 2025. “Archaeology, Epigraphy and Skyscape: Keys to Understanding Dadanite and Lihyanite Conception of Time.” Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy (Early View). https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12264 . The above article, published online on 03 January 2025 in Wiley Online Library ( wileyonlinelibrary.com ), has been withdrawn by agreement between the authors; the…
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