TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bar-Ilan,Meir
AU  - Gropp,Harald
AU  - Guillaume,Philippe
AU  - Iwaniszewski,Stanisław
AU  - Jakubiak,Krzysztof
AU  - Koleva,Svetlana
AU  - Koleva,Vesselina
AU  - McCluskey,Stephen
AU  - Schmidl,Petra G.
AU  - Sims,Lionel
AU  - Soltysiak,Arkadiusz
AU  - Sołtysiak,Arkadiusz
AU  - Vaiškūnas,Jonas
AU  - Zimmermann,Thomas
AU  - Żerańska-Kominek,Sławomira
TI  - Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures
T2  - Gorgias Précis Portfolios
SN  - 9781607246688
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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of Celestial Bodies and Time Counting in the Lithuanian Folk Culture --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Unpublished sources; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463222529
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463222529
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463222529/original
ER  -