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81. Archaeoastronomy, The Bulletin
82. The Ancient Solar Observatories
 
83. New Directions in American Archaeoastronomy
 
84. Early Man and the Cosmos: Explorations
 
85. Archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy
 
86. Archaeoastronomy: Selected readings
 
87. ARCHAEOASTRONOMY JOURNAL
88. Archaeoastronomy: Archaeoastronomy.
 
89. Earth and Sky; Papers From the
 
90. Popular archaeoastronomy
 
91. Archaeoastronomy Supplement to
 
92. Zhongguo tianwen kaoguxue - Archaeoastronomy
 
93. Archaeoastronomy:The Journal of
 
94. Archaeoastronomy: A science module
 
95. ARCHAEOASTRONOMY JOURNAL
 
96. O.L. Harvey: A remembrance (Archaeoastronomy
 
97. ARCHAEOASTRONOMY JOURNAL
 
98. Archaeoastronomy the Journal of
 
99. Archaeoastronomy: Supplement to
 
100. Archaeoastronomy and Cultural

81. Archaeoastronomy, The Bulletin January - December, 1984
by John B. (ed) Carlson
 Paperback: Pages (1984)

Asin: B0043K4662
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82. The Ancient Solar Observatories of Rapanui: The Archaeoastronomy of Easter Island (The Easter Island Series)
by William Liller
Paperback: 62 Pages (1993-08-01)
list price: US$12.00
Isbn: 1880636018
Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Good binding ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars Interesting book - purchase supports EI Foundation
This book is a rather academic-paper type publication, but quite interesting in its own right. There are some good observations and proof of the use of solar astronomy in the orientation of many Ahu (Easter Island ceremonial sites), demonstrating clearly that the ancient Islanders knew something about astronomy. There are not, however, any wild and crazy theories, nor does the author elaborate or speculate at any length on the significance of these findings. In this sense the book is relatively dry.

One final important remark: This book is published by EI Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting the conservation of Easter Island and its amazing archeological heritage. It is also relatively old in layout and style, since the Foundation seems to me focused more of scholarly issues than in the area of marketing, which seems to me fair enough.

1-0 out of 5 stars Disappointing contents amidst much white space

This A4-sized slim book is disappointing. Thirty illustrations occupy 19 of its 76 pages, covers included. Twenty-three of those illustrations are small, low-quality, black-and-photographs, typically 60x90mm or 70mmx110mm, which is roughly 2.5x3.5 and 3x4.5 inches. The only colour photograph, on the front cover, of a moai, has nothing to do with astronomy. Lavish use of white space reduces the textual contents to perhaps two dozen full pages.

Rather disappointed and quickly glancing through the text for information I immediately noticed two disturbing inaccuracies. Figure 30, p.50 has this caption: "The Trilithon on the main island of the Republic of Tonga". Tonga is a kingdom, not a republic. The author knows it too, as he writes on page 48: "In 1967 the current monarch, King Taufa'a hau Tupou IV, took interest in the Trilithon".
Page 36: "The markings consisted of a series of straight lines emanating from a point, as shown in Figure 24." Figure 24, overleaf, is a photograph showing markings on a rock, consisting of straight lines connected into a tree-shaped graph, which do not emanate from a single point at all. The photograph is so poor that identifying branches and nodes is difficult, nevertheless I see sixteen branches and eight nodes. The whole thing looks like a quipu, and not at all like lines radiating from a point.

Such discrepancies cast a shadow over the reliability of the rest, which is not presented in an organized fashion easily amenable to scrutiny. Much is second hand, some is vacuous. Thus p.36: "Modern astronomers know that an extremely rare astronomical event took place over the Pacific Ocean in the morning skies of September 13, 1170 A.D. Mars, at the time not far from the Pleiades, passed directly in front of Jupiter. Just as the first light of dawn was appearing, these two big planets [...] appeared to the naked eye as one. This event surely must have galvanized the Islanders. If only someone had recorded what the astronomer-priests had to say about that."
What is the point? Further, was that an exact conjunction and did Mars and Jupiter really did appear as one? Carl Friedrich Gauss reported his surprise at discovering that his mother had such acute eyesight that she saw the phases of Venus. May we not reasonably expect ancient astronomers to have been selected for their eyesight?

Low-quality photographs, inaccurate commentaries, a bare two dozen pages of text presented in disorganized fashion. I feel cheated. ... Read more


83. New Directions in American Archaeoastronomy (BAR British) (Pt.46)
 Paperback: 198 Pages (1988-12-31)
list price: US$40.00
Isbn: 0860545830
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A selection of nine papers from the 46th International Congress of Americanists. Papers are by: A F Aveni & H Hartung, C C Coggins & R D Drucker, S Milbrath, V R Bricker, F Tichy, S Robiou-Lamarche, P T Zuidema, M J Young, M Zeilik. ... Read more


84. Early Man and the Cosmos: Explorations in Archaeoastronomy
by Evan Hadingham
 Hardcover: 288 Pages (1984-04-30)

Isbn: 0434311073
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85. Archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy in Africa: Status of the disciplines and some suggested alternative approaches
by Ronald Davis
 Unknown Binding: 19 Pages (1987)

Asin: B00072Q48S
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86. Archaeoastronomy: Selected readings
by John B Carlson
 Unknown Binding: Pages (1977)

Asin: B0006X6AFK
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87. ARCHAEOASTRONOMY JOURNAL
by John B. Ed. Carlson
 Cards: Pages (1986-01-01)

Asin: B0033TIUTS
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88. Archaeoastronomy: Archaeoastronomy. Declination, Precession (astronomy), Newgrange, Giza Necropolis El Castillo, Chichen Itza, Stonehenge, Uxmal, Lunar ... (people), Petroform, Astronomical chronology
Paperback: 124 Pages (2009-07-28)
list price: US$56.00
Isbn: 6130024037
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Archaeoastronomy. Declination, Precession (astronomy), Newgrange, Giza Necropolis El Castillo, Chichen Itza, Stonehenge, Uxmal, Lunar standstill, Medicine wheel, Mound builder (people), Petroform, Astronomical chronology. ... Read more


89. Earth and Sky; Papers From the Northridge Conference on Archaeoastronomy
 Paperback: Pages (1985)

Asin: B001L3OKQ0
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90. Popular archaeoastronomy
by Louis Winkler
 Unknown Binding: Pages (1994)

Asin: B0006QSBJA
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91. Archaeoastronomy Supplement to the Journal for the History of Astronomy (Number 25, Supplement to Volume 31, 2000)
by Ivan Sprajc, Adriano Gomez Ruiz, Michael Hoskin, Anthony Aveni, Giuliano Romano, Gerard Sauzade, Clive Ruggles
 Paperback: 92 Pages (2000)

Asin: B000M5DDIE
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92. Zhongguo tianwen kaoguxue - Archaeoastronomy in China
by Shi Feng
 Paperback: Pages (2007-01-01)

Asin: B003992S0Y
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93. Archaeoastronomy:The Journal of the Center for Archaeoastronomy.Vol. VII, Nos. 1-4 (bnd. as 1), Jan-Dec, 1984
by Center for Archaeoastronomy
 Paperback: Pages (1984)

Asin: B001H0R9TM
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94. Archaeoastronomy: A science module for high school students and nonscience college students : text and activities
by Louis Winkler
 Unknown Binding: 37 Pages (1994)

Asin: B0006QSBKY
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95. ARCHAEOASTRONOMY JOURNAL
by John B. Ed. Carlson
 Cards: Pages (1985-01-01)

Asin: B0033TMRNS
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96. O.L. Harvey: A remembrance (Archaeoastronomy : the journal for the center for archaeoastronomy)
by Charles Kluepfel
 Unknown Binding: Pages (1988)

Asin: B00073B3F6
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97. ARCHAEOASTRONOMY JOURNAL
by John B. Ed. Carlson
 Cards: Pages (1988-01-01)

Asin: B0033TQLD0
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98. Archaeoastronomy the Journal of Astronomy in Culture (Volume XIV, Number 1, 1999)
 Paperback: 166 Pages (1999)

Asin: B000M5DTRE
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Articles: Astronomy in Culture; Archaeoastronomy and History of Science; Astronomy in Historical Studies;A Southeastern Native American Tradition: The Ofo Calendar and Related Ksy Lore; Pilgrimage and the Equinos "Serpent of Light and Shodow" Phenomenon at the Castillo, Chichen Itza, Yucatan ... Read more


99. Archaeoastronomy: Supplement to Journal for the history of astronomy
 Unknown Binding: Pages (1979)

Asin: B0000EDV7J
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100. Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy in India
by J.M. Malville
 Paperback: Pages (1995-01-01)

Asin: B000JF2VQ2
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