[AAA] Conferencia "Astronomía Cultural en una zona de conflicto" -- Jueves 23 a las 13hs (ARG) x zoom

[Alejandro Gangui]

Este jueves a las 13 hs de Argentina (4.00 pm UK time) está la
conferencia gratuita
"Cultural astronomy in a conflict zone: the orientation of pre-Islamic
funerary monuments in Western Sahara",
por la Dra. Andrea Rodríguez-Antón.

Este es un tema de mucha relevancia en lo que hace a la contribución
de la Astronomía a las Ciencias Sociales (ASOC = "Astronomía y
Sociedad" en la nueva denominación recientemente aprobada por la AAA).

Andrea pertenece al grupo español de Arqueoastronomía con el que
colaboramos muchos de los astrónomos locales.

Su Tesis "Cosmovisión y Urbanismo en la Roma Antigua: orientación de
ciudades y campamentos romanos" (2017), escrita en español y realizada
en el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, está disponible (quien lo
desee puede pedir el pdf por correo privado).

Que lo disfruten.


The Sophia Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, *The
Journal of Skyscape Archaeology*, The University of Bournemouth and
the Sophia Centre Press.

Join us on Thursday, November 23rd 2023. 4.00 pm UK time for a free
seminar with Andrea Rodríguez-Antón

Join with this zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84554865886?pwd=NUlwK1pYM1VwZ2QrRHhtblVORzlSdz09

Andrea Rodríguez-Antón:
Cultural astronomy in a conflict zone: the orientation of pre-Islamic
funerary monuments in Western Sahara

*Abstract*

A variety of Prehistoric dry-stone monuments are ubiquitous in Western
Sahara, a region delimited by the boundaries of the former Spanish
colony. With either burial or ritual functions, these monuments are
spread throughout the Sahara desert creating sacred landscapes and
housing the memory of millennia of occupation. In the recent years,
the orientation of more than 200 of those structures from various
types was obtained in the Western Sahara occupied by Morocco, being
the biggest sample of this type obtained in situ so far. In this
seminar, a review of the main results of this analysis will be
presented, which can provide new insights into the ideas about space,
time, and death and the cultural changes and mobility of those peoples
and contributes to the preservation of a highly threatened heritage
that is immersed in a vast land currently under dispute.

*Biography*

Andrea Rodríguez-Antón PhD in Cultural Astronomy (Universidad de La
Laguna, Spain), is a postdoc researcher at Institute of Heritage
Sciences (INCIPIT-CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela (Spain). One of her
main research lines is Archaeoastronomy of the Roman world, in
particular the orientations of Roman towns and centuriations, but in
the last years she has studied the role of astronomy in cultures from
different periods in the Near East and in Western Sahara. In this
region in particular, she participated in a research about the
orientation of pre-Islamic funerary monuments and she is currently
coordinating a project in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf
(Algeria) for the preservation of the astronomy in those lands, in the
frame of project “Amanar: A refuge under the stars” (Galileo Mobile).