Invited Talk 13 «Our Sky, the Sky of Our Ancestors» Cesar González García (Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit), CSIC, Spain). Antonio César González García has a PhD in Astrophysics (2003; Groningen, The Netherlands) and he currently holds a tenure in Cultural Astronomy at the Institute of Heritage Sciences in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). His research in astrophysics has been centered on the formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies. He has done extensive field work on megalithic monuments in The Netherlands, Germany, Bulgaria, Near East and the Iberian Peninsula. He has also done field work on classical cultures in Anatolia, the Levant and Western Europe. His main research lines are centered in the possible astronomical orientation of classical cultures and megaliths, possible astronomical and landscape relations of Iron Age sanctuaries and the study of the orientation of Roman cities. He is President of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) since 2017. FRIDAY – December 11
When we talk about Astronomy, we normally do not take into account that we are using a cultural specific way of understanding the sky. Astronomers, either professional, amateur or just lovers of the sky nowadays tend to approach the sky from the point of view of modern science. There, we approach the sky as something that needs to be explored, understood and explained. |