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Skyscapes : the role and importance of the sky in archaeology /
"Eleven papers extend discussion of the role and importance of the landscape and the wider environment to past societies, and to the understanding and interpretation of their material remains, into consideration of the significance of the celestial environment: the skyscape. The role of the sky...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2015.
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| Edición: | Digital edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Meaning and intent in ancient skyscapes : an Andean perspective / J. McKim Malville
- The role and importance of the sky in archaeology : an introduction / Fabio Silva
- Skyscapes : locating archaeoastronomy within academia / Nicholas Campion
- An examination of the divide between archaeoastronomy and archaeology / Liz Henty
- Skyscapes : present and past : from sustainability to interpreting ancient remains / Daniel Brown
- 30b : the West Kennet Avenue stone that never was : interpretation by multidisciplinary triangulation and emergence through four field anthropology / Lionel Sims
- Can archaeoastronomy inform archaeology on the building chronology of the Mnajdra Neolithic temple in Malta? / Tore Lomsdalen
- Star phases : the naked-eye astronomy of the Old Kingdom pyramid texts / Bernadette Brady
- An architectural perspective on structured sacred space : recent evidence from Iron Age Ireland / Frank Prendergast
- The circumpolar skyscape of a Pembrokeshire dolmen / Olwyn Pritchard
- The view from within : a "time-space-action" approach to megalithism in central Portugal / Fabio Silva
- Afterword: Dances beneath a diamond sky / Timothy Darvill.