Resumo
A variety of Prehistoric dry-stone monuments are ubiquitous in Western Sahara, a region delimited by the boundaries of the former Spanish colony. With either burial or ritual functions, these monuments are spread throughout the Sahara desert creating sacred landscapes and housing the memory of millennia of occupation. In the recent years, the orientation of more than 200 of those structures from various types was obtained in the Western Sahara occupied by Morocco, being the biggest sample of this type obtained in situ so far. In this seminar, a review of the main results of this analysis will be presented, which can provide new insights into the ideas about space, time, and death and the cultural changes and mobility of those peoples and contributes to the preservation of a highly threatened heritage that is immersed in a vast land currently under dispute.
Palabras chave
Cultural astronomy. Archaeoastronomy. Ethnoastronomy. Western Sahara.