ASTRO 1198

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ASTRO 1198
Archeoastronomy

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This course introduces archaeoastronomy as the evidence-based, interdisciplinary study of how human societies—ancient and modern—understood the sky and embedded that knowledge in architecture, ritual, calendars, navigation, and political power. Students learn naked-eye astronomical foundations, alignment/landscape methods, and global case studies. We emphasize rigorous inference, uncertainty/statistical controls, and cultural context. Pseudoscientific framings (e.g., “ancient aliens,” lost super-civilizations) are explicitly excluded.


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  •   Six Week Summer. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1581 ASTRO 1198   LEC 001

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    • Jun 22 - Aug 4, 2026

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  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous

    This Summer Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/.
    Enrollment open to: Precollege Studies Online program students. For details visit: https://sce.cornell.edu/precollege/program/online.