Theme:
4. Persisting with Change: Theory and Archaeological Scrutiny
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Archaeology, Landscape and Skyscape. How Material Archeology Change and Persist with Different Ontological and Epistemological Interpretations
Content:
This session is dedicated to the SEAC-EAA community and continues the success of the last five years of presentations at the EAA. The studies presented in this session explore the relationship between Material Archaeology, Landscape, and Skyscape, focusing on their ontological and epistemological aspects in Europe and other major cultural regions worldwide. These interdisciplinary studies have played a crucial role in understanding the relationships between different cultures, their interpretation of the heavens and landscape, and the elements established by ancient architecture. Our goal is to investigate people's way of life, practices, and worldviews through the use of new techniques to study the elements established by ancient architecture at archaeological sites and their connection to the landscape or sky. In particular in this session we encourage presentations dealing with how Archaeoastronomy and in particular the study of the orientations, alignments and/or the location of monuments in the landscape and their possible relation with the sky can provide clues into understanding cases of change/resilience in different societies. This modality allows us the contribution of different sciences and is the objective of the session. These are the questions that we aim to answer in the scope of the academic study of the work carried out in the field.
Keywords:
Archaeology, Astronomy, Skyscape, Landscape, Ontology, Ethnography
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
SEAC-EAA Community at EAA
Main organiser:
Jose Balbi (Argentina) 1
Co-organisers:
Antonio Gonzalez García (Spain) 2
Javier Mejuto (Honduras) 3
Hans Martz de la Vega (Mexico) 4
Stanislaw Iwaniszewski (Poland) 5
Affiliations:
1. Colchester Archaeological Group (UK)
2. Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (INCIPIT) CSIC
3. Cultural astronomy Space Sciences. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
4. Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia de Mexico
5. State Museum of Archaeology, Warsow,
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