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Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures / ed. by Arkadiusz Soltysiak.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Précis PortfoliosPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781607246688
  • 9781463222529
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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of Celestial Bodies and Time Counting in the Lithuanian Folk Culture -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Unpublished sources
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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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