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1. Exploring Ancient Skies: An Encyclopedic Survey of Archaeoastronomy by David H. Kelley, Eugene F. Milone | |
Hardcover: 616
Pages
(2004-11-19)
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Editorial Review Product Description The authors begin with an overview of the field and proceed to essential aspects of naked-eye astronomy, followed by an examination of specific cultures. The book concludes by taking into account the purposes of ancient astronomy: astrology, navigation, calendar regulation, and (not least) the understanding of our place and role in the universe.Skies are recreated to display critical events as they would have appeared to ancient observers -- events such as the supernova of 1054, the 'lion horoscope' or the 'Star of Bethlehem.' Exploring Ancient Skies provides a comprehensive overview of the relationships between astronomy and other areas of human investigation.It will be useful as a reference for scholars and as a text for students in both astronomy and archaeology, and will be of compelling interest to readers who seek a broad understanding of our collective intellectual history. Customer Reviews (1)
Explorers of ancient calendars and sacred geometry, take note |
2. Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island by Giulio Magli | |
Hardcover: 444
Pages
(2009-04-28)
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Editorial Review Product Description This complete, authoritative study of the growing discipline of Archaeoastronomy examines the role of astronomy in antiquity. Professor Giulio Magli provides a clear, up-to-date survey of current thinking on the motives of the ancients for building fabulous and mysterious monuments all over our planet. Was it an attempt to reproduce the sky on Earth, to bring down the power of the stars to where they could see it, worship it and use it? The connecting thread is astronomy: Giulio Magli uses astronomy as a key to understanding our ancestors’ way of thinking. It is a challenge he likes to call ‘predicting the past’ - archaeology as a science is able to make predictions, like any other science, and to check them. All of the astronomical achievements of the past are considered as a whole, in a comprehensive way that shows the depth and breadth of the thought behind them. In the past, the motives of the ancients – and particularly their scientific thought – have often been misconstrued, maligned or even dismissed. In an ironic, provocative style, Professor Magli shows the limitations of orthodox archaeology in the face of astronomically-based artefacts and tries to understand what led the ancients to construct magnificent buildings such as the city of Teotihuacan in the Mexico Valley, the Ceremonial Centre of Chaco Canyon in the USA, the Avebury stone circle in Great Britain or the Great Pyramids in Egypt. The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour’ of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating’ the sky. A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with “nature”, in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes. Finally, having formulated his hypothesis, Professor Magli returns to visit one specific place in detail, searching for proof. This in-depth examination studies the most compelling, the most intensively studied, the most famous and, until recently, the most misunderstood sacred landscape on the planet - Giza, in Egypt. The archaeoastronomical analysis of the orientation of the Giza pyramids leads to the hypothesis that the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren belong to the same construction project. Customer Reviews (2)
Archaeoastronomy for Dummies
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3. Archaeoastronomy in the Americas (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers) | |
Paperback: 405
Pages
(1981-06)
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Provokes A Pleasantly Concatenated Sense of Wonder This book provides a concatenated sense of wonder by drawing upon both archaeology and astronomy, and distilling many of the most provocative questions explored in each topic.Added to these topics is a tincture of anthropology, which in my mind solidifies the claim that this book has to true neato-hood. The focus is on the Western Hemisphere, as the title states.The book starts out with a collection of essays by respected, authentic scholars who study this kind of thing.Essay topics include "Archaeoastronomy Today," "Archaeoastronomy and Education," "The Role of Architecture and Planning in Archaeoastronomy," and various and sundry allied topics.If you have a longstanding interest in this kind of thing, you might expect the book to spend a lot of time on the Mayans, because of all the work done on Mayan calendrics, etc.Well, true, there's a lot about the Mayans, but there's also plentiful material about peoples without written records, such as the Chumash, the Apache, some Algonquin tribes, etc. Let me just point out that the people who contributed to this volume are all respected scholars -- there are no von Danikens, no Velikovskies, no Stichins to call the whole book into question with wild claims about pre-historic extraterrestrial contact, or the like.This book is for real. The body of the book, like the introduction, is divided into essays by academics with backgrounds in the appropriate fields.The essays are broken up into geographical regions -- North America, Mesoamerica, and South America.Essays delve into all kinds of fascinating subtopics about many archaeoastronomical questions.There is a little essay at the end, about prospects for teaching archaeoastronomy in the classroom.This essay is over twenty years old now, but it still has much of relevance to say. If you enjoy this kind of thing, you may wish to know about the "Journal of Archaeoastronomy," which you can find either online or in "Magazines for Libraries."Also, you can't go wrong reading anything at all by Anthony Aveni.Anyway, this book is a lot of fun.I would recommend it to anyone. ... Read more |
4. Archaeoastronomy in the Old World by D. C. Heggie | |
Paperback: 292
Pages
(2009-12-17)
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5. Ethnoastronomy & Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 385) | |
Paperback: 365
Pages
(1982-05)
list price: US$77.00 Isbn: 0897661613 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
6. Archaeoastronomy in the New World: American Primitive Astronomy | |
Paperback: 232
Pages
(2009-12-17)
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7. Archaeoastronomy of southeast Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle by William R McGlone | |
Unknown Binding: 156
Pages
(1999)
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8. African Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy research in Africa (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings) | |
Paperback: 260
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description This is the first scholarly collection of articles focused on the cultural astronomy of the African continent. It weaves together astronomy, anthropology, and Africa and it includes African myths and legends about the sky, alignments to celestial bodies found at archaeological sites and at places of worship, rock art with celestial imagery, and scientific thinking revealed in local astronomy traditions including ethnomathematics and the creation of calendars. Customer Reviews (1)
Where is the beef? (Less than halfstar) |
9. East-Asian Archaeoastronomy: Historical Records of Astronomical Observations of China, Japan and Korea (Earth Space Institute Book Series) by Zhenoao Xu, W. Pankenier, Yaotiao Jiang | |
Hardcover: 440
Pages
(2000-11-17)
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Great resource You can't ask for much better than this kind of work. ... Read more |
10. Archaeoastronomy: Skywatching in the Native American Southwest (Plateau (Flagstaff, Ariz. : 1939), Vol. 63, No. 2,) by Ronald McCoy | |
Paperback:
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(1994-03)
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11. The Petroglyph Calendar: An Archaeoastronomy Adventure by Hubert A. Jr. Allen | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2001-03-01)
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12. Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian American | |
Hardcover: 451
Pages
(1975-12)
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13. Archaeoastronomy and the Roots of Science (Aaas Selected Symposium, 71) | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(1984-04)
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14. World Archaeoastronomy: Selected Papers from the 2nd Oxford International Conference on Archaeoastronomy Held at Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 13-17 January 1986 | |
Hardcover: 528
Pages
(1989-04-28)
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15. Archaeoastronomy in East Asia: Historical Observational Records of Comets and Meteor Showers from China, Japan, and Korea | |
Hardcover: 776
Pages
(2008-12-28)
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16. Viewing the Sky Through Past and Present Cultures: Selected Papers from the Oxford VII International Conference on Archaeoastronomy | |
Paperback: 470
Pages
(2006-01)
Isbn: 1882572386 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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17. Readings in archaeoastronomy: Papers presented at the international conference: Current Problems and Future of Archaeoastronomy held at the State Archaeological Museum in Warsaw, 15-16 November 1990 | |
Unknown Binding: 153
Pages
(1992)
Isbn: 839005860X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
18. Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy: Conversations Across Time and Space by John W. Fountain, Rolf M. Sinclair, Oxford International Symposium on Archae | |
Hardcover: 579
Pages
(2005-07-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Mankind's fascination with the sky has been a strong and often dominant element in human life and culture. The Fifth Oxford Conference explored this fascination among those cultures that can be best (or only) studied within the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology. Archaeoastronomy adds an extra dimension to these other disciplines and helps create a richer and more complete view of the past. The papers in this volume are based on those presented at Oxford V and reflect the important interactions among the participants. One group looks at general questions in sociology or astronomy and provides parts of a framework on which the other papers can rest. The remainder of the papers deal with the specific studies in all parts of the world. |
19. Archaeoastronomy in Pre Columbian America by Anthony F. Aveni | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1977)
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20. European Archaeoastronomy and the Orientation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin: Ad Astra per Aspera et per Ludum (bar s) by Amanda-Alice Maravelia | |
Paperback: 127
Pages
(2003-12-31)
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