Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures /

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
MitwirkendeR:
Bar-Ilan, Meir,
Gropp, Harald,
Guillaume, Philippe,
Iwaniszewski, Stanisław,
Jakubiak, Krzysztof,
Koleva, Svetlana,
Koleva, Vesselina,
McCluskey, Stephen,
Schmidl, Petra G.,
Sims, Lionel,
Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz,
Vaiškūnas, Jonas,
Zimmermann, Thomas,
Żerańska-Kominek, Sławomira,
HerausgeberIn:
Soltysiak, Arkadiusz,
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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  • Unpublished sources

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