Talk:Archaeoastronomy
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Which spelling is more correct, or at least more often used: Archeoastronomy or Archaeoastronomy? This article can be filed under either spelling, and a redirect applied to the other. -- April
Google finds 12,300 for Archaeoastronomy, but only 1,420 for Archeoastronomy. So the article should probably go under Archaeoastronomy, unless someone has a good reason for preferring the other spelling. --Zundark, 2002 Jan 29
- Science News made reference (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_v131/ai_4742776) to the term as ethnoastronomy in 1987, but I haven't seen it used that way. Perhaps the page could mention it in passing. --Viriditas 04:22, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)
This article is kind of Anglocentric. Several Chinese astronomers have published in the last few years, usually in "Astronomy and Astrophysics - a European Journal"
I'll try to hunt up a few references. Also there is recent work on transits of Venus that should be mentioned. See:
[1] (http://www.venus-transit.de/)
among many references. The first recorded transit was in 1639
eclipses
Do these things belong on this page?
- use of eclipse records to date historical events
- use of historic eclipse trajectories to study past earth rotation
I'm not cluey enough about either to add them myself. --Zero 12:37, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Archaeoastronomy should keep to the ancient practices themselves, it seems to me, but an aside on modern uses of ancient astronomical records, now just hinted at here, would be useful, and an emphatic link to Chronology, where the employment of this dating technique in the hands of historians is worth all the detail you can give it! --Wetman 18:21, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)