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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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Additional Authors
  • Ruggles, C. L. N. (Clive L. N.)
  • Whittle, A. W. R.
Description
342 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
Series Statement
BAR British series ; 88
Uniform Title
BAR British series ; 88.
Subject
  • Neolithic period > Great Britain
  • Bronze age > Great Britain
  • Archaeoastronomy > Great Britain
  • Megalithic monuments > Great Britain
  • Great Britain > Antiquities
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