Archaeoastronomy is the study of beliefs and practices relating to the sky in the past, especially in prehistory, and the uses to which people's knowledge of the skies was put.

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IAU SYMPOSIUM 278
Lima, Peru
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Emeritus Professor of Archaeoastronomy at the University of Leicester

An investigation of the geoglyphs around Cahuachi (Nasca) in relation to the landscape and sky

A critical synthesis of European archaeoastronomy

Ancient Hawaiian astronomy

Bronze Age stone monuments of mid-Ulster

Archaeoastronomy in the Republic of Georgia

A re-examination of solstitial alignments in Neolithic Wessex

Structural orientations at Giza

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