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Skyscapes : the role and importance of the sky in archaeology
Title
Skyscapes : the role and importance of the sky in archaeology / edited by Fabio Silva and Nicholas Campion.
ISBN
9781782978404 (paperback)
1782978402 (paperback)
9781782978411 (digital)
Publication
Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015.
Physical Description
xvi, 148 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"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 for past societies has been relegated to the fringes of archaeological discourse. Nevertheless archaeoastronomy has developed a new rigour in the last few decades and the evidence suggests that it can provide insights into the beliefs, practices and cosmologies of past societies. Skyscapes explores the current role of archaeoastronomical knowledge in archaeological discourse and how to integrate the two"--Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Skyscapes Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 03, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
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.
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