Who were the earliest astronomers?

Answer 1

The earliest astronomers would be aboriginal Shamans who observe space and time, or orientations and seasons by a vertical pole casting sun shadows on the gruond.Mountain peaks or buttes were also employed as poles to catch morning sun light or to cast peaks shadows to remote stelas,sometimes pectoglyphs on rock, which marked the points of equinoxes and solstices.Setting up a pole on the gruond, one will find accurate local noon time whenever the pole's shadow in a day,any day, is shortiest. By the way, the equinoxes and solstices can be find too by watching the norning sunlight poles' shadows . One can serch "ancient astronomers"on internet and will find startling astronomic buildings or observatories once existed in acient Iriland,North America,South America, Austrilia, or any other places in the world.Try it please,itwoyld be very marvelous I am afraid.

Answer 2

Probably Ugghhh the Caveman and his cousins. Ancient people would have wondered about the lights in the sky, and probably made up stories to explain them.

The earliest known civilizations, the Babylonians and the Hittites, had astronomers (or astrologers, pretty much the same thing back then) and priests who tried to interpret what they saw in the skies and how this might affect them.

Answer 3

The names of the earliest astronomers are lost in the mist of time. Some of the earliest names of which we are aware are Aristarchus, Hipparchus and Ptolemy, although their writings - the few that survive! - refer to earlier works. The earliest true astronomers (as opposed to astrologers) were probably Egyptian or Babylonian.

Answer 4

The Ancient Egyptians were likely the first Astronomers, see Dawn of Astronomy by J. Norman Lockyer.