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Ancient Tombs and Shrines Faced Sun and Stars By Tariq Malik April 5, 2004 “The sun and stars may have served as critical references for a startlingly diverse range of ancient builders who constructed chambers to hold the dead and other religious shrines.
The orientation of thousands of Neolithic tombs erected across Europe and Africa around 10,000 B.C. were apparently built to face the rising sun, securing the sun's importance in various human cultures across three countries, two continents and the Mediterranean islands, according to one astronomy historian.
"I think all these cultures looked on the sunrise as a symbol of hope," (as well as a symbol of reincarnation and their primary god.) said Michael Hoskin, a historian of astronomy who conducted a study, in an e-mail interview. "The customs of structure of the tombs vary hugely from region to region, but the patterns of orientation are very similar".
Hoskins, a historian of astronomy at Churchill College in Cambridge, England, also found that the Bronze Age sanctuaries of one Spanish island could have once served as healing centers, though the lack of any written record of the region makes it impossible to know for sure.
"That they were sanctuaries, whether for healing or otherwise, is clear by the statues found there and also from the mass of bone fragments and sacrificed animals that litter them to this day," he said. The sanctuaries, he added, may have been built with the constellation Centaurus in mind. In Greek mythology, the centaur Chiron taught the god of medicine. Hoskin presented his findings on April 2 at the National Astronomy Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society at England's Open University.
TOMBS OF THE RISING SUN
The sheer number of Neolithic tombs built with a sun-ward oriented entrances suggest, if nothing else, that the sun played an important role that coincided with a person's death, researchers said.
"In studies like this, in which you have a large sample of tombs, you look for trends," said E.C. Krupp, an archaeoastronomer and director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angles, California, adding that it's amazing such structures can be identified in the first place. "So not only are the dead part of the story, but the sun is part of the story too."
The Neolithic period, or the Late Stone Age, dates back between 5,000-10,000 years ago when humans began to take up agriculture, settling down from a more nomadic hunter- gatherer existence. Communal tombs from that era vary in construction, some using large rocks while others small, still others containing deep passages. But all, by necessity, have an entrance through which additional bodies can be deposited inside.
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