Australian Aboriginal Astronomy Project

The Australian Aboriginal Astronomy Project is a collaboration of academics, educators, and indigenous elders researching the astronomical traditions and knowledge of Indigenous Australians, commonly termed Australian Aboriginal astronomy. This research in cultural astronomy covers the disciplines of archaeoastronomy, ethnoastronomy, historical astronomy, geomythology, and Indigenous knowledge.

The project is centred within the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. The project also has a research group at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, and associate members at Adelaide Planetarium, the University of Sydney, Flinders University, and the Northern Sydney Astronomical Society. The project, led by Professor Ray Norris, publishes research primarily in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, Archaeoastronomy, and Rock Art Research.

External links

• Australian Aboriginal astronomy project at Macquarie University.