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archæoastronomy|ˌɑːkiːəʊəˈstrɒnəmɪ|
[f. archæo- + astronomy.]
The study of astronomy as it was practised in prehistoric times or is represented by archæological remains.
1971Listener 28 Jan. 120/2 This is Professor Thom's second book on archaeoastronomy, the study of astronomical practices in ancient times (Gerald Hawkins's term ‘astro-archaeology’, ‘star archaeology’, is misleading and could well be dropped). 1975A. F. Aveni Archaeoastron. in Pre-Columbian Amer. p. xiii, The first large-scale meeting of scholars interested in Pre-Columbian Archaeoastronomy, here defined as the study of the extent of the astronomical knowledge and practice of the ancient people of Mesoamerica. 1977Sci. Amer. May 15/2 Eddy has also done research in infrared astronomy, the history of astronomy, and archaeoastronomy (particularly the astronomical alignment of Indian medicine wheels in the U.S. and Canada). 1981New Scientist 18 June 752/1 Gerry Hawkins in his book Stonehenge Decoded..broke spectacularly into the news in the mid-1960s and first brought archaeoastronomy (or astroarchaeology, as it was then called) into the public eye.
Hence ˌarchæoaˈstronomer; ˌarchæoastroˈnomical a.
1975J. E. Reyman in A. F. Aveni Archaeoastron. in Pre-Columbian Amer. x. 205 During the past several years, I have had occasion to read or hear approximately one hundred reports relating to archaeoastronomical research. 1978Nature 7 Sept. 75/1 For some time now there has been a clear need for a book which presents the findings of the ‘archaeoastronomers’—and this means mainly Professor Alexander Thom and his family—on the British prehistoric standing stone sites to the informed general public. 1978New Scientist 22 June 825 Nineteen basalt pillars at a megalithic site in northwestern Kenya are aligned towards the 300 bc rising directions of seven star formations of significance in the Cushitic calendar still used in the area today. This is the first archaeoastronomical site in sub-Saharan Africa and implies that a prehistoric calendar based on astronomical observations was in use in eastern Africa 2300 years ago. 1983Sci. Amer. June 66/2 These ranged from attributing the drawings to the work of extraterrestrials marking their desert spaceports to the claim by archaeoastronomers that the drawings provided sight lines for the observation of celestial phenomena. |