Tristan Howell

New Frontiers in Archaeoastronomy Tristan Howell

Archaeoastronomy is a multidisciplinary field that studies how people in the past have understood the phenomena in the sky. It also explores the way they used these phenomena and the role that the sky played in their cultures. Archaeoastronomy is a field that can be applied to all cultures and all time periods. Archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, statistics and probability, and history are some methods used in archaeoastronomy to uncover evidence of past practices. Archaeoastronomy also contributes to the fields of landscape archaeology and cognitive archaeology. It uses written and unwritten evidence to study the astronomies of other cultures. The two primary approaches of archaeoastronomy are green archaeoastronomy and brown archaeoastronomy. This book unravels the recent studies in archaeoastronomy. The various advancements in this discipline are glanced at and their applications, as well as ramifications, are looked at in detail. The extensive content of this book provides the readers with a thorough understanding of the subject.