can help you deliver high-quality research that includes a full appreciation of the landscape and skyscape around an archaeological, historical or heritage site – both in the past and in the present.
We can work with you to analyse a site, set of sites, complex or landscape with respect to its potential connection to the skyscape, whether this is in the form of celestial alignments, rock art representations, horizon mapping, site distribution, etc.
Approaches often combine an innovative quantitative methodology – employing accurate field surveying techniques with desk-based robust spatial and statistical analysis – with a solid appreciation of the qualitative dimensions necessary in skyscape archaeology – through the use of modern interpretive frameworks from theoretical archaeology and anthropology.
Please contact us to discuss your project requirements and how we can assist you.
TESTIMONIALS
Fabio is a first-rate researcher, at the cutting edge of research into prehistoric landscapes, monumentality and scientific dating. His work is characterised by its sophistication and originality, enabling us to question (and as a result understand) prehistoric structures such as Stonehenge in entirely new and exciting ways. He is also an accomplished academic author and editor, and a very assured communicator.
— Prof Mark Gillings (University of Bristol)
I have been working in partnership with Fabio Silva since 2011 on archaeoastronomy projects involving megalithic funerary monuments, their orientations, associated cosmogonies, and the evolution of the communities of shepherds and farmers who settled in central Portugal. Without this partnership, many questions would not have been answered, nor would other issues have been raised that are fundamental to the entire process of scientific interpretation.
— Dr José Manuel Ventura (University of Lisbon)
Advances in Cultural Astronomy incorporating archaeoastronomy, ancient cosmology and ethnoastronomy, like no other discipline, require dynamic leaders equipped with transdisciplinary skillsets. These encompass expertise in archaeology, astronomy and statistics to name but a few. My interactions with Fabio go back many years. Over that period I have had the honour and privilege to benefit from his outstanding abilities in the aforementioned – as a fellow collaborator, mentor and research advisor. At a time when our field of research faces many challenges, to have a leader with the calibre of Fabio pushing methodological and theoretical boundaries to their limits and beyond augers well for our future.
— Dr Frank Prendergast (Technology University Dublin)
Stone x Sky 