GakuseiDon,
Sadly, in my opinion, that Wikipedia article on Archaeoastronomy is not well written or explained. People would be confused if that is all they had to go on. A more accurate definition of Archaeoastronomy would be more about ancient observatories, megaliths and other ritual structures with religious and celestial significance and it all fits under the umbrella of astrotheology.
Take note that nearly everything mentioned in the Wiki article on Archaeoastronomy is also discussed throughout Acharya's work on astrotheology. I would certainly say that there's definite overlap as "Archaeo" means ancient so, all Archaeoastronomy is, is "ancient astronomy."
Here are what I would consider more accurate definitions:
Archaeoastronomy: "The branch of archaeology that deals with the apparent use by prehistoric civilizations of astronomical techniques to establish the seasons or the cycle of the year, esp. as evidenced in the construction of megaliths and other ritual structures."
"The study of the knowledge, interpretations, and practices of ancient cultures regarding celestial objects or phenomena. The branch of archaeology that deals with the apparent use by prehistoric civilizations of astronomical techniques to establish the seasons or the cycle of the year, esp. as evidenced in the construction of megaliths and other ritual structures."
Astrotheology: "Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies" ... such as the sun, moon, planets, stars, constellations and milky way etc.
From here
http:/ / ww w. fre ethough tnati on. co m/forums/viewtopic.php?p=14420#p14420
I have never heard of any valid evidence for a historical Jesus.
"The only definite account of his life and teachings is contained in the four Gospels of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. All other historical records of the time are silent about him. The brief mentions of Jesus in the writings of Josephus, Tacitus and Suetonius have been generally regarded as not genuine and as Christian interpolations; in Jewish writings there is no report about Jesus that has historical value. Some scholars have even gone so far as to hold that the entire Jesus story is a myth…"
- The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia
"...Christian scholars over the centuries have admitted that ... "there are parallels between the Mysteries and Christianity"1 and that "the miracle stories of the Gospels do in fact parallel literary forms found in pagan and Jewish miracle stories,"2 "...According to Form Criticism the Gospels are more like folklore and myth than historical fact."3
1. Metzger, HLS, 8.
2. Meier, II, 536.
3. Geisler, CA, 320.
- Who Was Jesus? 259
Rene Salm seems confused on several things and he is a Euhemerist/Evemerist not a mythicist as he himself admits:
"I am a euhemerist"
- Rene Salm
Salm believes Jesus really existed.
Rene Salm is not a mythicist
Rene Salm seemed like a Richard Carrier fanboy until Carrier dissed Salm's part in the book:
Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth: An Evaluation of Ehrman s Did Jesus Exist?
http://www.amazon.com/Ehrman-Quest-Hist ... 1578840198
The Salm-Carrier exchange
http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2013/05/ ... -1-2-2013/
Rene Salm is just not the go to guy on mythicism or astrotheology. His thing seems to be Nazareth.