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Visualising Skyscapes: Material Forms of Cultural Engagement with the Heavens book cover

1st Edition

Visualising Skyscapes Material Forms of Cultural Engagement with the Heavens

Edited By Liz Henty, Daniel Brown Copyright 2019
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages 69 Color & 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 69 Color & 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Foreword: Facing the Sky



Professor Gabriel Cooney





Introduction



Daniel Brown and Liz Henty





Part I. Skyscapes: Theory and Methodology





1. Skyscape Archaeology: the place of the sky in the academy



Liz Henty





2. Visualising Skyscapes: GIS-based 3D modelling and astronomical simulation



Georg Zotti





3. On measurement, uncertainty and maximum likelihood in skyscape archaeology



Fabio Silva





4. The Dark Sky Character of Archaeological Landscapes: Cultural Meaning and Conservation Strategies



Frank Prendergast





5. The phenomenology of star phases and their role in considering skyscapes



Bernadette Brady





6. Toads turning time: verifying visualisations of the Sanctuary (Avebury, Wiltshire) by inter-disciplinary method.



Lionel Sims





Part II. Skyscapes: Case Studies





7. Linsmeau Early Bronze Age structure showing a possible astronomical intent



Frédéric Heller, Frédéric Broes and Georg Zotti





8. Time pursued by a Bear: Ursa Major and stellar time-telling in the Paduan Salone



Darrelyn Gunzburg





9. Visualisation of the sky in traditional cultures of Eurasia and its ancient representations



Emília Pásztor





10. The Square Kilometre Array Art Exhibition



Jarita Holbrook





11. A Brief Account of Three Millennia of Chinese Preoccupation with the Skyscape



David W. Pankenier





12. The Science of Seeing Skyscapes – A photographic documentary of watching



Deborah Harty, Daniel Brown, Amanda Reyes Asturias, Kieran Simcox, Phillip Johnson





Afterword



Andrew Newsam

Biography

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).



"Visualising Skyscapes provides a stimulating and rich collection of papers that will appeal to a wide range of scholars. The volume encapsulates the interdisciplinary nature of the skyscapes approach and shows the value in bringing together disparate case studies and examples from across the globe under the umbrella of cultural astronomy." - Susan Greaney, Journal of Skyscape Archaeology

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