TY - GEN
T1 - 'Bridging the gap' through Australian cultural astronomy
AU - Hamacher, Duane W.
AU - Norris, Ray P.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - ![CDATA[For more than 50,000 years, Indigenous Australians have incorporated celestial events into their oral traditions and used the motions of celestial bodies for navigation, time-keeping, food economics, and social structure. In this paper, we explore the ways in which Aboriginal people made careful observations of the sky, measurements of celestial bodies, and incorporated astronomical events into complex oral traditions by searching for written records of time-keeping using celestial bodies, the use of rising and setting stars as indicators of special events, recorded observations of variable stars, the solar cycle, and lunar phases (including ocean tides and eclipses) in oral tradition, as well as astronomical measurements of the equinox, solstice, and cardinal points.]]
AB - ![CDATA[For more than 50,000 years, Indigenous Australians have incorporated celestial events into their oral traditions and used the motions of celestial bodies for navigation, time-keeping, food economics, and social structure. In this paper, we explore the ways in which Aboriginal people made careful observations of the sky, measurements of celestial bodies, and incorporated astronomical events into complex oral traditions by searching for written records of time-keeping using celestial bodies, the use of rising and setting stars as indicators of special events, recorded observations of variable stars, the solar cycle, and lunar phases (including ocean tides and eclipses) in oral tradition, as well as astronomical measurements of the equinox, solstice, and cardinal points.]]
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/550207
U2 - 10.1017/S1743921311012713
DO - 10.1017/S1743921311012713
M3 - Conference Paper
SN - 9781107019782
SP - 282
EP - 290
BT - Archeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges between Cultures: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Volume 7, S278: “Oxford IXâ€Â� International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy, Lima, Peru, 5-14 January 2011
PB - Cambridge University Press
T2 - Oxford International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy
Y2 - 5 January 2011
ER -