Skyscape Studies Seminar Series 2023-24

The Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, the Sophia Centre at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, the Sophia Centre Press and the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of Bournemouth University are teaming up for the fourth annual series of online seminars on Skyscape Archaeology. All seminars are free and online via Zoom.

The schedule for the 2023-24 series is as follows -- abstracts and biographies can be read by clicking on the speaker's name.

All seminars will be accessible via this Zoom link.

Oct 19, 2023 4pm UK time Dating Tasmanian Aboriginal oral traditions to the Late Pleistocene Duane Hamacher    Nov 23, 2023 4pm UK time Cultural astronomy in a conflict zone: the orientation of pre-Islamic funerary monuments in Western Sahara Andrea Rodríguez-Antón   Jan 25, 2024 4pm UK time Written in the stars: Point pattern recognition and analysis of cultural artifacts Paul Burley   Feb 22, 2024 4pm UK time The cosmogonising features of the hypostyle hall in the Temple of Hathor, Dendera, Egypt Bernadette Brady   Mar 21, 2024 4pm UK time First Light on Archaic Petroglyphs in East Central Utah as Solstice Markers Iza Steiner   Apr 25, 2024 4pm UK time Timing Death Carnivals at Taş Tepeler Alistair Coombs   May 23, 2024 4pm UK time Cosmological relations in the Muisca myth of Bachue Natalia Sánchez Steiner and Diego Martínez Celis   Jun 20, 2024 4pm UK time Inka Cosmovision: Astronomy with a Quechua Worldview Steven Gullberg