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| In 1983 Laurance Doyle and Eddie
Frank led their first expedition to NAMORATUNGA (click
for photos) - an extremely remote site in
northern Kenya. Their
findings earned them a footnote in Archaeo-astronomy
history. They discovered that around 300 B.C. an unknown African people had built a stone "observatory" using a detailed understanding of the motions of the Stars and the Moon. With their astronomical knowledge, these people created a very accurate lunar calendar. In 1989 Doyle and Frank ventured further south on another expedition to the GREAT ZIMBABWE RUINS (click for photos) which dates back as far as 400 A.D. This vast complex extends well over an acre, and built within it are significant astronomical alignments. The articles below chronicle their findings. |
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for Expedition Photos of NAMORATUNGA & GREAT ZIMBABWE
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ARTICLES by Doyle & Frank |
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AnthroQuest (The L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Newsletter) "Astronomy in East Africa" |
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Current
Anthropology "The Borana Calendar Reinterpreted" |
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Encyclopaedia
of the
History of Science,
Technology, and Medicine in
Non-Western Cultures "Astronomy of Africa" |
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SETI News (SETI Institute Newsletter) "Do Dolphins Talk" |
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