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Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary [1] or multidisciplinary [2] study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures". [3]
Welcome to the website of the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC). Founded in 1996, we are the global professional organization promoting the academic development of cultural astronomy (archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy).
Archaeoastronomy is a subset of the science that studies how sky-gazing activities have influenced human cultures and technologies throughout history. It brings together elements from archaeology, astronomy, and anthropology to help answer unresolved questions about ancient societies.
This is a list of sites where claims for the use of archaeoastronomy have been made, sorted by country.
An introduction to pre-Columbian Archaeoastronomy, with key topics such as the Maya Calendar, the role of astronomy in Maya architecture, and the sacred space of the Incas at Cusco and Macchu Picchu.
Archeoastronomy in Stone. The Ancestral Pueblo people carved petroglyphs and painted pictographs to follow the cycle of the sun, moon, and stars; equinoxes and solstices; and to document extraordinary celestial events.
The central aim of “Handbook of Archaeoastronomy” is to provide a reliable source for theory, method, interpretation and best practices that will give a definitive picture of the state of the art research in this field for serious scholars regardless of the discipline(s) in which they are qualified.
The following will show that archaeoastronomy is far more than just an interdisciplinary field linking archaeology and astronomy. It merges aspects of anthropology, ethno-astronomy and even...
Using archaeoastronomy, particular material/physical evidence on the ground can be linked to the sky and in turn reveal how a wider landscape can be integrated into a belief system. The meanings of the sky and associated celestial bodies will vary between cultures and time periods,
properties and problems of archaeoastronomy with a brief review of the history of astroarchaeology and the research on megalithic astronomy of a decade ago that gave rise to much of the present activity.