Abstract
Different people, seafaring in different parts of the world, used strategies well adapted to their environment with the purpose of safely reaching their destination. Astronomicalelements, present in their navigation “toolkit” for orientation, calendar purposes, and time reckoning, contributed to their conceptualization of space and time and were eventually integrated in their ritual, social organization, and social power structure.
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Pimenta, F. (2015). Astronomy and navigation. In Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (pp. 43–66). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_7
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