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The seven-stone tombs of the Alentejo region of Portugal face within the range of sunrise (and moonrise) and may have been oriented on sunrise on the day construction began.
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Hoskin MA (2001) Tombs, temples and their orientations: a new perspective on Mediterranean prehistory. Ocarina Books, Bognor Regis
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Hoskin, M. (2015). Seven-Stone Antas. In: Ruggles, C. (eds) Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_109
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