Archaeoastronomical study in the archaeological site of Yarumela

Abstract

The present project emerges as an initiative to continue advancing in archaeological astronomical research and in this way to advance knowledge of our ancestor cultures using Honduran archaeological information, a field study of the archaeological site of Yarumela was carried out. Bibliographical review of other researchers, photos and images of the archaeological site and its structures are shown. A topographic plane and a georeferenced map were realized to determine the orientation between the structures, with which we obtained comparative tables of the coordinates of some structures of Yarumela, tables of the azimuth between the structures and calculations of geometry were made to determine the azimuth of the Sunrise over the horizon in the different solar events measuring the height of the mountains and thus determine if there is some archeoastronomic alignment between the structures and the sunrise in the solar events, equinoxes and solstices. For this study I use technology for topographic maps and geographic information systems for analysis of points data with total station and GPS, also used the trigonometry to make the calculations and compare them with the data taken with those of the total station, waiting to obtain the result of astronomical alignments and to advance more in the archeoastronomic investigation in the country.

Revista Ciencia y Tecnología No.20, junio 2017; 103-123