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Archaeoastronomy is one of the most intriguing and hotly debated aspects of prehistory. Our forbears left us tantalising evidence of their understanding of the cosmos and their relationship with it all over the world, from South America to Asia, Africa, Europe, to the Wiltshire plains and Stonehenge and - of course, the Calanais Standing Stones way up in the Hebrides.

Professor Roberto Trotta knows a thing or two about the stars and the galaxies, he’s a cosmologist at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, where he’s Professor of Theoretical Physics; and he’s Visiting Professor of Astrostatistics at Imperial College London.

However, recently he’s turned his attention to prehistory as well and in his recent book STARBORN has explored a thought experiment asking the question: what if our ancestors had never seen the stars?

That simple question revealed to him just how crucial to our ancestors their relationship to the cosmos was in prehistory and that’s why we’re talking to Roberto now.

MORE ABOUT PROFESSOR ROBERTO TROTTA: https://robertotrotta.com/

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00:00:00 - Welcome and introduction.
00:02:08 - What was your path to cosmology and the book ‘Starborn’?
00:06:51 - What took you to Calanais and to your interest in the ancient skies?
00:10:08 - Roberto is a brilliant writer!
00:10:51 - Concern for our current disconnection from the cosmos.
00:14:41 - Why imagine a world in which people have never seen the stars?
00:19:15 - Neanderthals, Australian Aboriginals and the Pleiades.
00:25:30 - The massive advantage of utilising the motions of the sky.
00:29:25 - Contingency of ‘noticing the sky’ and a possible missing connection for the Neanderthals
00:31:33 - Isn’t it a ‘projection’ that Sapiens had superior knowledge of the sky?
00:35:56 - A fan of Steven J. Gould?
00:36:44 - Are the connections between the moon and fertility cycles really that strong?
00:43:17 - World wide commonalities in the constellations.
00:46:17 - The construction of archetypal narratives.
00:47:55 - Homo Sapiens - travelling by the stars.
00:50:37 - The cosmos, gods & power.
00:54:16 - Greater cloud cover for the Neanderthals in Northern Europe?
00:55:59 - The sky knowledge of the Inuit.
00:57:37 - Lessons for the present day - concerns and hopes for the future.
01:01:31 - Rounding up & goodbyes.

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