“Visualising Skyscapes: Material Forms of Cultural Engagement with the Heavens”

Full day session at the 38th Annual Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, TAG 2016, Southampton (United Kingdom), 19th–21st December, 2016

Authors

  • Daniel Brown Nottingham Trent University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.33307

Keywords:

Theoretical Archaeology Group, TAG, skyscapes

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Author Biography

  • Daniel Brown, Nottingham Trent University

    Daniel Brown is a physicist who developed hands-on astronomy teaching, while at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany. He became interested in archaeoastronomy working with Prof W Schlosser, and is a founding member of the InitiativekreisHorizontastronomy ImRuhrgebiet. He has a doctorate in theoretical stellar evolution and currently lectures in astronomy at Nottingham Trent University. His work combines the outdoor classroom, sustainability, place experience and archaeoastronomy as exemplified by his forthcoming publication ‘Skyscapes Present and Past – From Sustainability to Interpreting Ancient Remains’ in F Silva and N Campion (eds.) Skyscapes in Archaeology (Oxbow, in press). His practical work in the Peak District National Park focuses upon Gardom's Edge as well as Light pollution education.

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2017-08-09

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How to Cite

Brown, D. (2017). “Visualising Skyscapes: Material Forms of Cultural Engagement with the Heavens”: Full day session at the 38th Annual Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, TAG 2016, Southampton (United Kingdom), 19th–21st December, 2016. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 3(1), 147-152. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.33307