Eleanor Imster at Human World in EarthSky.org reports on the use of prehistoric cave art in ancient astronomy.
See Prehistoric cave art suggests ancient use of complex astronomy.
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Ancient Cave Paintings Are Astronomy is the Latest News from the University of Edinburgh
The latest news from the University of Edinburgh headlines that
Cave paintings reveal use of complex astronomy, reporting that:
We are very happy to see that other researchers are now increasingly drawing similar conclusions to those we have been publishing for decades.
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and to EurekaAlert.org at
Prehistoric cave art reveals ancient use of complex astronomy
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As we have written for decades, much of Ancient Egypt was also focused on astronomy.
Cave paintings reveal use of complex astronomy, reporting that:
"Some of the world’s oldest cave paintings have revealed how ancient people had relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy.For the last 30 years we have been writing books and articles explaining that ancient rock art, cave paintings and megalithic sites, including carvings and markings on the megaliths themselves, represent "complex" ancient astronomy. See e.g. http://www.megaliths.net/
The artworks, at sites across Europe, are not simply depictions of wild animals, as was previously thought.
Instead, the animal symbols represent star constellations in the night sky, and are used to represent dates and mark events such as comet strikes, analysis suggests.
They reveal that, perhaps as far back as 40,000 years ago, humans kept track of time using knowledge of how the position of the stars slowly changes over thousands of years."
We are very happy to see that other researchers are now increasingly drawing similar conclusions to those we have been publishing for decades.
Hat tips to StonePages Archaeo News
and to EurekaAlert.org at
Prehistoric cave art reveals ancient use of complex astronomy
Just keep those congratulatory cards and letters coming ....
As we have written for decades, much of Ancient Egypt was also focused on astronomy.
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American Indian Rock Art Petroglyphs Pictographs
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American Indian Rock Art Petroglyphs Pictographs
Cave Paintings Earthworks & Mounds as Land Survey & Astronomy,
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Both volumes have the same cover except for the labels "Volume 1" viz. "Volume 2".
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Both book volumes contain the following basic book description:
"Alice Cunningham Fletcher observed in her 1902 publication in the American Anthropologist
that there is ample evidence that some ancient cultures in Native America,
e.g. the Pawnee in Nebraska,
geographically located their villages according to patterns seen in stars of the heavens.
See Alice C. Fletcher, Star Cult Among the Pawnee--A Preliminary Report,
American Anthropologist, 4, 730-736, 1902.
Ralph N. Buckstaff wrote:
"These Indians recognized the constellations as we do, also the important stars,
drawing them according to their magnitude.
The groups were placed with a great deal of thought and care and show long study.
... They were keen observers....
The Pawnee Indians must have had a knowledge of astronomy
comparable to that of the early white men."
See Ralph N. Buckstaff, Stars and Constellations of a Pawnee Sky Map,
American Anthropologist, Vol. 29, Nr. 2, April-June 1927, pp. 279-285, 1927.
In our book, we take these observations one level further
and show that megalithic sites and petroglyphic rock carving
and pictographic rock art in Native America,
together with mounds and earthworks, were made to represent territorial geographic landmarks
placed according to the stars of the sky using the ready map of the starry sky
in the hermetic tradition, "as above, so below".
That mirror image of the heavens on terrestrial land is the "Sky Earth" of Native America,
whose "rock stars" are the real stars of the heavens,
"immortalized" by rock art petroglyphs, pictographs,
cave paintings, earthworks and mounds of various kinds (stone, earth, shells) on our Earth.
These landmarks were placed systematically
in North America, Central America (Meso-America) and South America
and can to a large degree be reconstructed as the Sky Earth of Native America."
