Ethno & Archaeo-Astronomy
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Dept. de Física y Astronomía
Universidad de La Serena
Since the dawn of civilization, Astronomy has played a leading role in the development of both science and humanities. In present-day Chile, thanks to the excellent quality of its northern skies and the long-standing presence of the most advanced international observatories in the world, Astronomy has become the science with the highest impact and international presence in the country.
The astonishing development in both the quantity and quality of astrophysical research performed in Chilean Universities, however, has not been accompanied yet by a proportional academic interest in those equally important aspects of the discipline generally known as “Cultural Astronomy”.
These pages document the very first interdisciplinary effort to create within a Chilean University (remarkably in a Department of Physics and Astronomy) a first research nucleus of Ethno and Archaeoastronomical studies.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any comment/suggestion/feedback about this awareness effort and the specific research project it pursues.
The astonishing development in both the quantity and quality of astrophysical research performed in Chilean Universities, however, has not been accompanied yet by a proportional academic interest in those equally important aspects of the discipline generally known as “Cultural Astronomy”.
These pages document the very first interdisciplinary effort to create within a Chilean University (remarkably in a Department of Physics and Astronomy) a first research nucleus of Ethno and Archaeoastronomical studies.
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any comment/suggestion/feedback about this awareness effort and the specific research project it pursues.
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Sociedad Interamericana de
Astronomía en la Cultura Lima, 2017 Nov 19-26 |
Second Binational Meeting AAA-SOCHIAS
La Serena, 2018 Oct 7-12 |