
People were much more connected to the rhythms and wonders of the night sky before the widespread use of electric lighting. The sky marked the changing of seasons and passage of time. It represented order, yet was mutable. Throughout history the night sky has shaped the beliefs and traditions of societies, from the the myths of ancient Greece and the celestially-aligned architecture of ancestral Puebloan civilizations to agricultural harvest festivals and nautical navigation records of sea voyages to new and distant lands.


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References
Rogers, J. and Sovick, J. 2001.The Ultimate Cultural Resource?, The George Wright Forum, 18:4.
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