Bernie Taylor’s following “The Rich Past of Astronomical Discovery” book review of From Cave Art to Hubble: A History of Astronomical Record Keeping (2020) by Jonathan Powell as printed in the June 2020 issue of Physics Today (magazine of the American Institute of Physics). These Upper Paleolithic cave art and ancient archaeoastronomy resources are an alternative approach to that of author Jonathan Powell and his sources, but are not included in the review so as to maintain neutrality.
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Bernie Taylor is the author of Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero (2017).
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I read the book review and I watched some of your videos. Your work dates astronomy to 10,000s of years before Gobeklitepe and Lascaux.
Why didn’t you point of the earlier references in the book review?
Gilbert
Gilbert,
Thank you for reading my blog. Yes, you are correct that my archaeoastronomy work dates to 34k years ago. I sought to be objective in the book review and not have it a commercial for my own research. More on the earliest known astronomy can be found at https://beforeorion.com/index.php/archaeoastronomy-with-before-orion/
Dark Night Skies,
Bernie Taylor
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