Solarizing the Moon.

• Author: Silva, Fabio.
• TeilnehmendeR: Henty, Liz.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages)

Lionel Sims has produced an influential body of work that has challenged existing narratives about British prehistoric monuments and provided innovative ways to approach and think about skyscapes. This book, in his honour, is divided into three parts: Anthropology and Human Origins, Prehistory and Megalithic Monuments, and Theory.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Contributors -- Introduction: Lionel's Legacy -- Fabio Silva and Liz Henty -- Lunarchy: The Original Human Economics of Time -- Camilla Power -- Hunting by the Moon in Human Evolution -- Ian Watts -- Enchantment in Stone -- Chris Knight -- Prehistoric Interest in Stations of the Sun and the Moon - Fact or Fiction? -- Emília Pásztor -- The Sun and the Moon: Double Alignments in the Iberian Peninsula -- A. César González-García -- The Long Dark Night: Neolithic Ritual as Palimpsest -- John Grigsby -- Entangling the Cosmos: Astronomy of the Ancestral Pueblos - Sacred Skyscapes and Medicine Bundles -- J. McKim Malville -- Hats Off To Lionel: The Moon's Vertical Descent into Robin Hood's Ball and Other 'Dualities' -- David Fisher -- Fire-drills in the Neolithic Near East -- Estelle Orrelle -- Human Beings in Cosmic Lifeworlds: Anthropology, Ecospheres and Cultural Cosmologies -- Michael A. Rappenglück -- Exploring Theory in Skyscape Archaeology: Symbols, Materiality, Relationality and Rhizomes -- Nicholas Campion -- Skyscape Archaeology as Ontological Turn: Towards an Archaeoastronomy Rooted in Modern Archaeological Theory -- Fabio Silva -- Breaking the Mould: Space, Place and Phenomenology -- Liz Henty.