Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy: Conversations Across Time and Space: Selected Papers from the Fifth Oxford International Conference at Santa Fe,

by Rolf M. Sinclair, Oxford International Symposium on Archae, John W. Fountain

The Oxford Conferences are a series of triennial meetings that have focused on the role that astronomical phenomena have played in human societies, ranging from the applied (such as the basis for calendrics and orientations) to the ceremonial (the significance given the "ritual landscape" of the sky). These conferences serve as a meeting place for those working in anthropology, archaeology, history and prehistory, archaeoastronomy, and other studies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890897719
• ISBN13: 9780890897713
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 579 Pages