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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AB</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Archaeologia Baltica</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1392-5520</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-5520</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">10_125-130_HENRIKSSON_BLOMBERG</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Orientations at the Minoan peak sanctuary on Philioremos near Gonies (Maleviziou), Crete</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Henriksson</surname>
            <given-names>Göran</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:goran.henriksson@astro.uu.se">goran.henriksson@astro.uu.se</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_000">Uppsala University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Blomberg</surname>
            <given-names>Mary</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:mary@mikrob.com">mary@mikrob.com</email>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_001">Uppsala University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>10</volume>
      <fpage>125</fpage>
      <lpage>130</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>23</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2007</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>20</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2008</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2008</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>As part of the Uppsala University archaeoastronomical project to study the Minoan calendar, we have investigated representative examples of their buildings and found on Philioremos the third example of a peak sanctuary related to sunrise at the summer solstice. This is the nineteenth example of an important Minoan building exactly related to a major yearly event of the lunisolar calendar that was remembered in archaic Greek literature. An important achievement of our project is the discovery of cooperation among Minoans at different sites to mark major celestial events and of well-developed methods for maintaining a seasonally correct lunisolar calendar that began in connection with the autumn equinox.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Aegean Bronze Age</kwd>
        <kwd>ancient calendars</kwd>
        <kwd>Bronze Age Crete</kwd>
        <kwd>Gonies</kwd>
        <kwd>Minoan culture</kwd>
        <kwd>orientations</kwd>
        <kwd>peak sanctuaries</kwd>
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