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Tombs, temples and their orientations : a new perspective on mediterranean prehistory / Michael Hoskin.

Title
Tombs, temples and their orientations : a new perspective on mediterranean prehistory / Michael Hoskin.
Author
Hoskin, Michael A.
Publication
Bognor Regis : Ocarina Books, 2001.

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Description
viii, 264 p. : ill., tab; 25 cm.
Summary
"This book presents and analyses the measurements of temples and communal tombs of the Neolithic. Chalcolithic and Bronze Age, carried out during a dozen years of fieldwork in Portugal. Spain, the Balearics, southern France, Corsica, Sardinia, Maltra, Sicily, Panterlleria, north Africa and Crete. The evidence is summarized at the end of the book in a Corpus Mensurarum of the orientations of some three thousand tombs and temples, a number of which have since been destroyed by mechanized land-clearance."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Archaeoastronomy
  • Tombs > Mediterranean Region
  • Temples > Mediterranean Region
  • Mediterranean Region > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Origins of an Odyssey. 2. Measuring Orientations: Why, Where, and How -- Pt. I. Orientations of Temples and Sanctuaries. 3. The Temples of Malta and Gozo. 4. The Sanctuaries of Menorca and Mallorca -- Pt. II. Orientations of Communal Tombs. 5. Easterly-facing Tombs (I): South Iberia. 6. Easterly-facing Tombs (II): West Iberia. 7. Easterly-facing Tombs (III): North Iberia and Neighbouring France. 8. Easterly-facing Tombs (IV): The French Causses. 9. Westerly-facing Tombs (I): Provence and East Languedoc. 10. Mingling Customs: West Languedoc and the East Pyrenees. 11. Westerly-facing Tombs (II): The Balearic Islands. 12. Easterly-facing Tombs (V): Corsica and Sardinia. 13. Malta, Sicily and Pantelleria. 14. Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. 15. Retrospect: Funerary Customs of Orientation in Mediterranean Prehistory. App. The Minoan Cemetery at Armenoi, Crete -- Corpus Mensurarum.
ISBN
0954086716
OCLC
  • 49964477
  • SCSB-12401288
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library