Visualising Skyscapes
Material Forms of Cultural Engagement with the Heavens
Above the land and its horizon lies the celestial sphere, that great dome of the sky which governs light and darkness, critical to life itself, yet its influence is often neglected in the archaeological narrative. Visualising Skyscapes captures a growing interest in the emerging field of skyscape archaeology.This powerful and innovative book returns the sky to its rightful place as a central consideration in archaeological thought and can be regarded as a handbook for further research. Bookended by a foreword by archaeologist Gabriel Cooney and an afterword by astronomer Andrew Newsam, its contents have a wide-reaching relevance for the field…
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Weitere Autoren: Brown, Daniel (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-351-39879-4
- EAN: 9781351398794
- Produktnummer: 31671188
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 58'171 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 15 schwarz-weiße und 69 farbige Abbildungen, 4 schwarz-weiße und 49 farbige Fotos, 11 schwarz-weiße und 20 farbige Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Liz Henty MA is examining the relationship between the histories of archaeology and archaeoastronomy for her doctoral thesis at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Her many publications include a contribution to Skyscapes (Silva and Campion, Oxford: Oxbow, 2015). In 2015 she co-founded and is co-editor of the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology.Daniel Brown has a doctorate in astrophysics and is an Associate Professor in Astronomy and Science Communication at Nottingham Trent University. His work combines heritage, light pollution and archaeoastronomy. He organises skyscapes sessions at National Astronomy Meetings and edited the 2014 session proceedings for the Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 685, 2016).
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