archaeoastronomy
Noun
Meaning
archaeoastronomy (uncountable)
(hypercorrect) Alternative spelling of archaeastronomy
Examples
All three major international scholarly associations relate archaeoastronomy to the study of culture, using the term Astronomy in Culture or a translation.
Aveni 1989:5 Bauer and Dearborn 1995 In eastern Asia archaeoastronomy has developed from the History of Astronomy and much archaeoastronomy is searching for material correlates of the historical record.
Alignments A common source of data for archaeoastronomy is the study of alignments.
Bostwick 2006:3 Paul Bahn has described archaeoastronomy as an area of cognitive archaeology.
George Gummerman and Miranda Warburton view archaeoastronomy as part of an archaeology informed by cultural anthropology and aimed at understanding a "group's conception of themselves in relation to the heavens', in a word, its cosmology.
Green archaeoastronomy Green Archaeoastronomy is named after the cover of the book Archaeoastronomy in the Old World.