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Exploring Archaeoastronomy - A History of its Relationship with Archaeology and Esotericism (Paperback)
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Archaeoastronomy and archaeology are two distinct fields of study
which examine the cultural aspect of societies, but from different
perspectives. Archaeoastronomy seeks to discover how the impact of
the skyscape is materialised in culture, by alignments to celestial
events or sky-based symbolism; yet by contrast, archaeology's
approach examines all aspects of culture, but rarely considers the
sky. Despite this omission, archaeology is the dominant discipline
while archaeoastronomy is relegated to the sidelines. The reasons
for archaeoastronomy's marginalised status may be found by
assessing its history. For such an exploration to be useful,
archaeoastronomy cannot just be investigated in a vacuum but must
be contextualised by exploring other contemporaneous developments,
particularly in archaeology. On the periphery of both, there are
various strands of esoteric thought and pseudoscientific theories
which paint an alternative view of monumental remains and these
also play a part in the background. The discipline of archaeology
has had an unbroken lineage from the late 19th-century to the
present. On the other hand, archaeoastronomy has not been
consistently titled, having adopted various different names such as
alignment studies, orientation theory, astro-archaeology,
megalithic science, archaeotopography, archaeoastronomy and
cultural astronomy: names which depict variants of its methods and
theory, sometimes in tandem with those of archaeology and sometimes
in opposition. Similarly, its academic status has always been
unclear, so to bring it closer to archaeology there was a proposal
in 2015 to integrate archaeoastronomy research with that of
archaeology and call it skyscape archaeology. This volume examines
how all these different variants came about and consider
archaeoastronomy's often troubled relationship with archaeology and
its appropriation by esotericism, to shed light on its position
today.
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