Archaeoastronomy

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) 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".

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Archaeoastronomy”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.