List of artifacts significant to archaeoastronomy

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* Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave – carved mammoth tusk 'plate' with proposed figurative asterism; combined with notched denotations relating to time-reckoning. The cave is in the Swabian Jura, Germany.
* Antikythera mechanism – A device for plotting positions of heavenly bodies. Discovered off the island of Antikythera, Greece
* Book of Silk – Drawings of comets unearthed from Han tomb number 3 at Mawangdui Han tombs site, Changsha, China
* Golden hats – Tall conical hats said to be embossed with symbols of astronomical significance from Bronze Age Central Europe
* Grooves (archaeology) \- grooves found in rock in northern Europe and particularly on Gotland, Sweden
* Nebra sky disk – A bronze disc said to date from the Bronze Age which portrays the cosmos. From Nebra, Germany
* Thaïs Bone – a proposed lunisolar calendar notched onto a bovine rib fragment; deposited in the early Azilian culture. Discovered in the Thaïs cave (Grotte de Thaïs), Département de la Drôme, France.
* Trundholm sun chariot – A bronze sun disc pulled by a horse from Trundholm, Zealand, Denmark

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