SEAC 2011 stars and stones : voyages in archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy : proceedings of the SEAC 2011 conference
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European Society for Astronomy in Culture. Conference Évora, Portugal)
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Pimenta, Fernando
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Archaeopress,
2015.
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| Umfang/Format: |
340 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
BAR international series
2720 |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 1. Opening and public lecture. Voyages guided by the skies: ancient concepts of exploring and domesticating time and space across cultures / Michael A. Rappenglück
- Voyages of the Zodiac, an impenitent traveller across lands and ages / Juan Antonio Belmonte
- 2. Astronomical navigation. An encounter of worlds. The archaeology of the nautical astrolabe: news from a shipwreck in Namibia / José Manuel Malhão Pereira
- Celestial navigation in the USA, Fiji, and Tunisia / Jarita C. Holbrook
- The problem of longitude in the 18th century: Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa and the expedition of the Paris Academy of Sciences to the kingdom of Peru / Manuel Pérez Gutiérrez
- Star-paths, stones and horizon astronomy / Bernadette Brady
- ^Protohistoric and historical Atlantic navigation: archaeological evidence from the Azores / Nuno Ribeiro, Anabela Joaquinito, Fernando Pimenta, Herbert Sauren, António Felix Rodrigues, Antonieta Costa, António Sérgio Pereira, Maria de Fraga Juliano, Joaquim Fernandes, Ricardo Freitas, Ricardo Ventura, and Luís Tirapicos
- 3. Archaeoastronomical voyages in antiquity, Egypt, Middle East and Mediterranean. The development of the sacred landscape of Saqqara in the Old Kingdom / Giulio Magli
- Orientation of the villas at Tylissos on Crete and their relationships to the Minoan calendar / Goran Henriksson, Mary Blomberg
- Defining astrology in ancient and classical history / Nicholas Campion
- Orion in Homer: is it a terrestrial, an astral or an astronomical myth? / Manuela Revello
- Himera and Pyrgi: the diagonals and the alignments of the temples / Marcello Ranieri
- Plato's cosmic theology: a rationale for a polytheistic astrology? / André Henriques
- ^Ancient topometry, the tracing of towns in the Roman epoch: Ulpia Traiana dacica Sarmizegetusa - Romania. Second part / Florin Stanescu
- 4. Ethnoastronomical voyages in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Reading alien landscapes: thick versus thin descriptions in archaeoastronomy / J. McKim Malville
- Statistical analysis of temple orientation in ancient India / Alba Aller, Juan Antonio Belmonte
- The cosmos in Portuguese popular tradition: a bibliographic and fieldwork approach / Catarina Oliveira
- On the intercourse between Indian and Arabic/Persian astrologies / Audrius Beinorius
- 5. Ethnoastronomical voyages in North America, Mesoamerica and South America. Shaking Eden: voyages, bodies and change in the social construction of South American skies / Alejandro Martin Lopez
- Sky travelers: cosmological experiences among evangelical Indians from the Argentinian Chaco / Agustina Altman
- ^6. Archaeoastronomical voyages in paleolithic and neolithic cultures. Notes on archaeoastronomy in Portugal: from first light to dark moon / Candido Marciano da Silva
- A voyage around the recumbent stone circles of north-east Scotland / Liz Henty
- Danish passage graves, 'spring/summer/fall full moons' and lunar standstills / Clas Jrgen Clausen
- Ditched enclosures in southern Portugal: an archaeoastronomical view / J. Mejuto, A. Carlos Valera, J. Gomez Castano, G. Rodriguez-Caderot, Helmut Becker
- Possible astronomical intentionality in the Neolithic Mnajdra south temple in Malta / Tore Lomsdalen
- Astronomical topographical orientation of Kreisgrabenanlagen in lower Austria / Georg Zotti, Wolfgang Neubauer
- Out of Africa: the solarization of the moon / Lionel Sims
- A possible astronomically aligned monolith at Gardom's Edge / Daniel Brown, Andy Alder, Elizabeth Bemand
- ^7. Archaeoastronomical voyages in Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. A place along the way: contextualising findings from the Iron Age post enclosure at Lismullin, Co. Meath, Ireland / Frank Prendergast
- Open air rock art between Alva and Ceira Rivers: a voyage through mining, trading, transhumance routes and the orientation in the landscape / F. Pimenta, N. Ribeiro, A. Smith, A. Joaquinito, S. Pereira and L. Tirapicos
- Astronomical orientations in sanctuaries of Daunia / E. Antonello, V.F. Polcaro, A.M. Tunzi Sisto, M. Lo Zupone
- From hillforts to saints: sun tropoi and patterns of christianization in NW Spain / Marco V. Garcia Quintela, A. Cesar Gonzalez Garcia, Yolanda Seoane Veiga
- Astronomical aspects of Krakow's monumental mounds / Joanna Kozakiewicz
- A myth in Celtiberian astronomy / Ma. Pilar Burillo-Cuadrado
- The astronomical sanctuary of the Celtiberian town of Segeda (Mara, Zaragoza, Spain) / Francisco Burillo-Mozota, Manuel Pérez-Gutiérrez
- ^Modeling and analysis of the Gobustan sundial observatory / Abasali Rustamov, Gunay Rustamova
- 8. Archaeoastronomical voyages in medieval time in orient and occident. A voyage of Christian medieval astronomy: symbolic, ritual and political orientation of churches / A. Cesar Gonzalez-Garcia
- Transient astronomical events as inspiration sources of medieval art. III: the 13th and 14th centuries, and the case of the French "ordre de l'étoile" / F. Bonoli, M. Incerti, V.F. Polcaro
- English medieval churches, 'festival orientation' and William Wordsworth / Peter G. Hoare, Hans Ketel
- 9. History of astronomy: an encounter of cultures. Gods, demons and deceivers: Jesuits facing Chaco skies / Alejandro Martin Lopez
- Boscovich, the Brera Observatory and the Enlightenment / Elio Antonello
- Archaeology and astronomy. A 300-year voyage / Jody Morellato
- ^Astronomy and "Azuelejo" panels in Portuguese Jesuit colleges / Rosário Salema de Carvalho, Samuel Gessner, Luís Tirapicos
- The role of cultural astronomy in bridging the snow's "two cultures": some Italian experiences / V.F. Polcaro
- Evangelista Torricelli and astronomy / Rosa María Herrera
- 10. Round table: To where is Archaeoastronomy voyaging? Archaeoastronomy, cultural astronomy and education. Navigating between the Scylla of social construction and Charybdis of logical empiricism: the construction of facts in archaeoastronomy / Stanisaw Iwaniszewski
- Where is cultural astronomy going? / Lionel Sims.
