ii Preface Astronomy, as a set of practices, of methods and observations and theoretical reasoning, has always been a crucial activity of every human society and the human mind, already from the dawn of the civilization. Since the dawn of humanity Astronomy is the cardinal socio-anthropological activity that led to the development of Culture, Mathematics, Philosophy and Civilization. Emphasis will be to reveal the crucial role of astronomy in societies, countries, continents, at all eras. SEAC 2013 had as its theme “Astronomy, mother of Civilization and Guide to the Future”. During the past 2 decades the proceedings have emerged as one of if not the major venue for publication of world-wide research in Cultural Astronomy. They serve as a substitute for an annual journal. The proceedings of the annual SEAC meetings have become a well-established medium of scientific exchange. This book documents the rich variety of research that is going on in our field, which is incredibly global in extent and spans millennia of time. Working in the field of Cultural Astronomy scientists use multifaceted and broadly conceptualized approaches for identifying, substantiating and evaluating traces of astronomical knowledge in the records of prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic cultures.
divination, astrology, and certain religious concepts. Cultural astronomy requires understanding the special mindscape and worldview of cultures, consisting of ideas, procedures, and valuations, with which for the most part we, living in scientific-technical based culture, are unfamiliar today, e.g.
People were highly capable of integrating several aspects and multiple levels of meaning in the cultural conceptualizations making up their world view, by making intensive use of symbolic, mythic, and ritual language. Doing scientific research in Cultural Astronomy, the life world and life praxis of the respective culture have to be taken into consideration.
SELECTED DOUBLE BLIND PEER REVIEWED PAPERS ON ARCHAEOASTRONOMY OF The European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC), 2013, Athens Greece.
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