The sky as a compass (original) (raw)

Contributor/Developer for the United States Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) national educational curriculum: Project Archaeology, collaborating on the development of a special topic unit in Archaeoastronomy. Project Archaeology is a joint project of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management and Montana State University with its national headquarters located at 2-128 Wilson Hall, Montana State University , Bozeman, MT 59717, (406) 994-6925, http://www.projectarchaeology.org/ ; developing the story, “The Sky as a Compass” based on research done at San Cristóbal and Moises Ville, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina, along with the paper given at the Oxford IX international conference in Peru and the resulting publication in : Mudrik, Armando, 2011; “A eucalyptus in the moon: folk astronomy among European colonists in northern Santa Fe province, Argentina”, en Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges between Cultures, proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Symposium Nº 278, Oxford IX International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy, 5-14 de enero de 2011, Lima, Clive L.N. Ruggles, ed., Cambrige University Press, pp 84-92. “The Sky as a Compass” is part of a lesson designed to teach fourth-sixth graders how cultures have connected their life on earth to the patterns embedded in the celestial sphere (Enero 2012).