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Astronomy and society in Britain during the period 4000-1500 B.C.
- Title
- Astronomy and society in Britain during the period 4000-1500 B.C. / edited by C.L.N. Ruggles & A.W.R. Whittle.
- Publication
- Oxford, England : B.A.R., 1981.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | AA963 B7682 no.88-89 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 342 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
- Series Statement
- BAR British series ; 88
- Uniform Title
- BAR British series ; 88.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- Megalithic lunar observatories / A.S. Thom -- Decoding the Callanish complex / Margaret and Gerald Ponting -- Wise men in antiquity? / Euan W. MacKie -- A critical examination of the megalithic lunar observatories / Clive Ruggles -- A reassessment of the solstitial observatories at Kintraw and Ballachroy / Jon Patrick -- Some archaeological and astronomical objections to scientific astronomy in British prehistory / Gordon Moir -- "By the light of the cinerary moon" / Aubrey Burl -- Ethnoastronomy / I.J. Thorpe -- Some notes on work organisation and society in prehistoric Wessex / Bill Startin and Richard Bradley -- Later Neolithic society in Britain / Alasdair Whittle.
- ISBN
- 0860541304 (pbk.) :
- LCCN
- 81174149
- OCLC
- ocm08156895
- SCSB-5002408
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries