Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures / / ed. by Arkadiusz Soltysiak.
The volume contains 12 papers presented at the conference "Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures" (Toruń, Poland 2005). Five of them concern Near Eastern calendars and sky-watching, three are devoted to European archaeoastronomy (including a paper on Stonehenge), and two represent ethnoarcha...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gorgias Précis Portfolios
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Complete list of papers presented at the conference -- The Calendar in the Flood Narrative -- Sabbatical Calendar and Priestly Narrative -- Mesopotamian Influence on Persian Sky-watching and Calendar. Part I. Mithra, Shamash and Solar Festivals -- The Philosophy of Time and Time Telling Devices in the Early Islamic World -- On Timekeeping by the Lunar Mansions in Medieval Egypt -- Music in the Iconography of Venus’ Children -- Chronotypic Variation among Early and Middle Neolithic Societes in Poland -- Ethnographic Correlates of One Type of Soli-lunar Alignment: The Doubling of Winter Solstice Sunset with the Southern (Minor or Major) Standstill Moonsets -- The Calendar of Coligny and Related Calendars -- The Medieval Liturgical Calendar, Sacred Space, and the Orientations of Churches -- The Finnish Wooden Calendars and Some Aspects of Folk Knowledge in the Middle Ages -- The Observation of Celestial Bodies and Time Counting in the Lithuanian Folk Culture -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Unpublished sources |
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Summary: | The volume contains 12 papers presented at the conference "Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures" (Toruń, Poland 2005). Five of them concern Near Eastern calendars and sky-watching, three are devoted to European archaeoastronomy (including a paper on Stonehenge), and two represent ethnoarchaeological research in the Baltic area. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781463222529 9783111024141 9783110663037 |
DOI: | 10.31826/9781463222529 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Arkadiusz Soltysiak. |