Marina De Franceschini.
Beyond Paradigms: Archaeoastronomy as a New Interpretation Key to Understand the Function and Meaning of Ancient Roman Buildings
published in
Beyond Paradigms in Cultural Astronomy, BAR S3033 edited by A. César González-García, Roslyn M. Frank, Lionel D. Sims, Michael A. Rappenglück, Georg Zotti, Juan A. Belmonte, Ivan Šprajc, BAR Publishing (Oxford, 2021).
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Archaeoastronomy can give an important contribution to Archaeology for a better understanding of the function and meaning of some ancient Roman buildings. I have a first-hand direct experience, and I will present two case studies, Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli (near Rome) and the Pantheon in Rome, both of the 2nd century AD. They prove how Archaeoastronomy allowed us to go “beyond the paradigms”, with a new and innovative approach in looking at ancient Roman monuments which have been studied for centuries, but somehow are still unknown as far as their function and meaning are concerned.