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Calendars, Symbols and Orientations: Legacies of Astronomy in Culture. SEAC 2001 Proceedings.
2003. Edited by Mary Blomberg, Peter E Blomberg and Göran Henriksson.
This collection of twenty-four papers examines the numerous ways in which the stars influenced our ancestors' view of the world. The papers are divided into five categories: Archaeoastronomical theory; Calendars in artefacts, folklore, and literature; History and iconography of the constellations; Astronomy in art, mythology, and literature; and Orientations and their interpretations.
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Tombs, Temples and their Orientations: A New Perspective on Mediterranean Prehistory
2001. Written by Michael Hoskin.
This brings together a decade of intensive and highly original fieldwork in the central and western Mediterranean, which has uncovered and interpreted scores of hitherto unrecognised customs of orientation.
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Astronomy, Cosmology and Landscape: SEAC 98 Proceedings
2001. Edited by Clive Ruggles, Frank Prendergast and Tom Ray.
This SEAC volume includes a typically wide range of papers covering themes from theoretical foundations to survey methodology; from Palaeolithic alignments to modern folk traditions; and from Aztec constellations to early Irish mythology.
Ocarina price US$40.00 (UK£25.00).
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Astronomical Traditions in Past Cultures: SEAC 93 Proceedings
1996. Edited by Vesselina Koleva and Dimiter Kolev
This important conference, held in Bulgaria in August-September 1993, brought together European archaeoastronomers for the first time under the auspices of SEAC, the European Society for the Study of Astronomy in Culture.
Previously offered at US$25.00. Ocarina price US$8.00 (UK£5.00).
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The SEAC 94 Proceedings
1996/2000. Edited by Wolfhard Schlosser.
The second annual SEAC conference was held in Bochum, Germany. The proceedings contain papers on subjects ranging from Irish stone circles to Incaic and pre-Incaic monuments in Bolivia and Colombia, and from to Assyrian astrology to folk calendars in medieval Bulgaria.
Previously only available to conference participants. Ocarina price US$16.00 (UK£10.00)
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Astronomies and Cultures
1993. Edited by Clive Ruggles and Nicholas Saunders
Contains ten thematic articles illustrating the broad scope, diversity and cultural significance of contemporary studies in archaeoastronomy from the Third "Oxford" International Conference on Archaeoastronomy held in St Andrews, Scotland, in 1990.
Publisher's price US$39.95 (UK£25.00). Ocarina price US$25.00 (UK£15.00).
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Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s
1993. Edited by Clive Ruggles
Contains 31 short articles which describe the theories, techniques, and results of field research in this exciting and burgeoning field during the last decade. From the Third "Oxford" International Conference on Archaeoastronomy held in St Andrews, Scotland, in 1990. ONLY A FEW COPIES LEFT.
Publisher's price US$52.00 (UK£32.50). Ocarina price US$25.00 (UK£15.00).
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