Culture and Cosmos Vol 17 Number 2 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907767703 ISBN 13: 9781907767708

Publisher: Sophia Centre Press, 2015

Synopsis

This issue of Culture and Cosmos stems out of the 'Land, Sea and Sky: a "3-scape" approach to Archaeology' session of the 2013 meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG), at the University of Bournemouth. It features articles by Daniel Brown, Pamela Armstrong, Olwyn Pritchard, Tore Lomsdalen, Fernando Pimenta and collaborators, and book reviews by Liz Henty and Lionel Sims. The contributions to this issue demonstrate how the study of the celestial environment-the skyscape-complements the more traditional archaeological approaches to landscapes and seascapes, and how approaching this trinity holistically sheds further light into past societies, their beliefs and practices. -Fabio Silva, PhD

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About the Author

Fabio Silva is a Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and teaches a postgraduate module on archaeoastronomy for the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His main interest is in how humans perceive their environment and use that knowledge to time and adjust their social and productive behaviours. His research is split between archaeoastronomy and landscape archaeology, at regional scales, and the study of culture-dependent dispersal dynamics and their modelling, at larger space and time scales. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sophia Centre Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907767703
• ISBN 13: 9781907767708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156
• Editor: Campion Nicholas, Silva Fabio