Archaeoastronomy
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archaeoastronomy-188-9802365
title:
Archaeoastronomy
text:
Archaeoastronomy is the interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used these phenomena 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 symbolically rich cultural interpretations of phenomena in the sky by other cultures. It is often
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Interdisciplinary study of astronomies in cultures
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeoastronomy
date created:
2001-12-10T12:44:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T00:45:27Z
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13
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