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FINDING INFORMATION AT NOBLE (AND HAYDEN) LIBRARY
The history of astronomy goes far back to the time of the Ancient Mesopotamians, Ancient Indian, Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Mesoamerica (i.e., southern North Ameican and Central America). Today the study of ancient astronomy is called archaeoastronomy or archeoastronomy (the first spelling being British and the second American). Archeoastronomy is an interdisciplinary study of ancient writings, buildings with astronomical alignments, and other artifacts dealing with astronomy.
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Broad and Specific Terms: Archaeoastronomy (also Archeoastronomy), Ancient astronomy, Astronomy, history
Related Terms: Ethnoastronomy, Astronomy of a specific place or culture (e.g., Assyro-Babylonian astronomy, Greek astronomy, etc.), Prehistoric astronomy,