from abydos to the valley of the kings and amarna; geometry and perspective in the landscape of the saqqara pyramids; archaeoastronomy and archaeo-topography as tools in …... Archaeoastronomy. Introduction to the science of stars and stones. Springer, NY. External links. Look up archaeoastronomy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Introduction: What is Archaeoastronomy, and why studying it.- Ideas.- Astronomy and people.- Astronomy and power.- Astronomy and afterworld.- Astronomy and architecture.- Astronomy and landscape.- Methods.- The celestial coordinates.- The apparent motion of the Sun.- The apparent motion of the stars.- The apparent motion of the Moon and the planets.- The observation of celestial bodies …... Archaeoastronomy is the “science of stars and stones”: it studies the relationships between the ancient monuments and the sky, in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic world. The course provides the first complete, easy introduction to this fascinating discipline.
This book provides the first complete, easy to read, up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied in order to gain a better understanding of the.