archeoastronomy

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Welcome to an overview on Archeoastronomy

Presented by Heidi Short and her Helpful

Assistants

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What is this subject?

How long has it been studied?What kind of controversies come from

this subject?Can we make connections with the

past?

Some of the places around the world connected to this subject .

Examples of what can be seen.

What is it, really?Dictionaries say it is the study of astronomy

by ancient cultures.But it is so much more.

Interpretation, practices and knowledge that the ancient cultures had of the stars and

worlds above.

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Archeoastronomy

John Aubrey (1626-1697)Antiquarian and Writer

Reverend William Stukeley (1687- 1765)Antiquarian, Scholar of Sacred History,

And Cabalistic Science

J. Norman Lockyer (1836-1920)Civil Servant, Solar Physicist

Temples, Druids, Alignments with the heavens.

Robert Bauvel and Graham HancockJohn Anthony West and

Robert Schoch

Around the World

Welcome to EgyptNabta Playa, Sahara Desert

Circular Zodiac

Originally on the ceiling of

The Temple of Het-Hert

(Hathor)

It is presently in the Louver.

A replica currently resides in

The Temple

“Circular Zodiac”

The Great Monuments

Giza Plateau

Karnak, Luxor

Welcome to Europe

La Roche aux Fees

Welcome to the United Kingdom

The Most Famous of AllStonehenge

Avebury

Scotland

Ballochroy, Kintyre, Argyll

Aulton,Aberdeenshire

IrelandNewgrange, Meath

Roma, Ankor Wat, Easter Island

Welcome to the Americas

Tiahuanaco, Bolivia

Central AmericaDzibilchaltún, Yucatan

Caracol Tower, Chichen Itza, Mexico

Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan

TEOTIHUACAN Temple of the Sun

North AmericaMiami, Florida

America’s Stonehenge, Mystery Hill

Sacrificial Stone

Cahokia Mounds, Southern Illinois

Serpent Mound, Ohio

Poverty Point, northeastern Louisiana

Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

Big Horn Medicine Wheel, Wyoming

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