Research Catalog

Title

Solarizing the moon : essays in honour of Lionel Sims / edited by Fabio Silva.

Publication

• Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sims, Lionel
• Silva, Fabio
• Henty, Liz

Description

xiv, 239 pages : illustrations (color), maps; 29 cm

Summary

In the United Kingdom and Europe generally, the study of prehistoric monuments has long been the domain of archaeologists who excavate, measure, date and record them. From the 1960s onwards, archaeoastronomers provided an alternative picture based on their belief that the builders understood celestial movements and consequently enshrined astronomical alignments into their monuments. This picture was highly contested by most archaeologists and the two fields, archaeology and archaeoastronomy, have gone their separate ways. One of the scholars who broke this stalemate was Lionel Sims who, as an anthropologist, had a wealth of ethnographic material to draw from, allowing him to envision archaeoastronomy from a multidisciplinary perspective by combining a number of methodologies and approaches to examine how archaeoastronomy could deal with cultural complexity.0Lionel Sims has produced an influential body of work which has challenged existing narratives about British prehistoric monuments and, equally importantly, provided innovative ways to approach and think about skyscapes. His work is not without controversy, but his unique take and thought-provoking conclusions have had an impact on the thinking of numerous students and collaborators. This festschrift gathers contributions from many of his colleagues who wish to honour and pay their respects to him. Following an introduction that discusses the legacy of his work, the volume delves deeper into three areas: Anthropology and Human Origins, Prehistory and Megalithic Monuments, and Theory. Its thirteen chapters contextualise Lionel's work and expand it in new and exciting directions for skyscape archaeology.

Subject

• Megalithic monuments > Great Britain
• Antiquities
• Megalithic monuments
• Great Britain > Antiquities
• Great Britain

Note

• In honour of Lionel Sims.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

JFF 22-859

ISBN

• 1803271124
• 9781803271125

OCLC

1333267304

Title

Solarizing the moon : essays in honour of Lionel Sims / edited by Fabio Silva.

Publisher

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Sims, Lionel, honoree.

Silva, Fabio, editor.

Henty, Liz, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 22-859