About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 120. Chapters: Antikythera mechanism, Machu Picchu, Teotihuacan, Maeshowe, Borobudur, Chichen Itza, Prehistoric Orkney, Tiwanaku, Angkor Wat, Newgrange, M S n, Carnac stones, Nebra sky disk, Hamlet's Mill, Nazca Lines, Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Golden hat, Nabta Playa, Lunar standstill, Proto-Ionians, Serbian folk astronomy, Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge, Trundholm sun chariot, Astronomical complex, Christian O'Brien, Archaeoastronomy and Vedic chronology, Leper Stone, List of archaeoastronomical sites by country, Callanish Stones, Eles, Tunisia, Goseck circle, Phnom Bakheng, Arkaim, Out of the Ordinary Festival, Stone ship, El Castillo, Chichen Itza, Choquequirao, Ale's Stones, Wandlebury Enigma, Portingbury Hills, Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple, Uriel's Machine, Kokino, Jantar Mantar, Chankillo, Astronomical ceiling of Senemut Tomb, Amazon Stonehenge, El Caracol, Chichen Itza, Buena Vista, Peru, Aboriginal stone arrangement, Bora, Grooves, Pretelescopic astronomy, Yantra Mantra, Calcoene, Ballochroy, Giorgio de Santillana, Hugh Harleston Jr., Borobudur Temple Compounds, List of artifacts significant to archaeoastronomy. Excerpt: Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky how they used phenomena in the sky and what role the sky played in their cultures." Clive Ruggles argues it is misleading to consider archaeoastronomy to be the study of ancient astronomy, as modern astronomy is a scientific discipline, while archaeoastronomy considers other cultures' symbolically rich cultural interpretations of phenomena in the sky. It is often twinned with ethnoastronomy, the anthropological study of skywatching in contemporary societies. Archaeoastronomy is also closely associated with historical astronomy, the use of historical records of heavenly...
