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Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland
by Clive Ruggles
ISBN: 0300078145
ISBN-13: 9780300078145
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published date: 1999
Size: 9 x 11.75 inches
Weight: 3.05 pounds
Pages: 285
Publisher's Notes
Do prehistoric stone monuments in Britain and Ireland incorporate deliberate astronomical alignments, and if so, what is their purpose and meaning? This book by Clive Ruggles is the first to approach this topic -- a subject of controversy between astronomers and archaeologists -- from a perspective that incorporates both disciplines. The book is divided into three parts. The first is a detailed account of the megalithic astronomy debates of the 1960s to the 1980s and the lessons -- both interpretative and methodological -- that can be learned from them. The second describes the present state of ideas and evidence concerning prehistoric people's concerns with celestial bodies and events, drawing particularly on work in British and Irish archaeoastronomy in the past fifteen years, including many years of fieldwork by the author. The third section sets new agendas for the future. The book also includes an appendix on field techniques. The author establishes the importance of studies of astronomy in the context of broader questions of cosmology, ideology, and cognition that are of central interest to prehistorians at the end of the twentieth century. It also makes clear that cross-disciplinary perspectives are necessary in tackling an innately interdisciplinary problem.
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ASTRONOMY IN PREHISTORIC BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Ruggles, Clive
New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket 1999. Hardcover. 285 pp. Index. Illustrated. FINE condition book and dustjacket. Blue hardcovers quite clean, and bright, faint rubbing to corners. Interior new: crisp, clean, and tight. Dustjacket has faint edgewear at corners, else new. A nice copy.; 4to 11" - 13" tall . ( more information)
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Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland
Ruggles, Clive
New Haven: Yale University Press. (1999). First Edition. Hardbound. Quarto. x + 285pp including tables, notes, bibliography and index. Illustrated throughout with black & white drawings. Blue paper over boards. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket ( more information)
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Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland
Ruggles, Clive
Yale University Press, 1999. 1st Edition. Figure,table and photo plate illustrated. Complete with an abundance of original source material previously unpublished. Of obvious reference value 4to. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly well preserved; tight, bright,clean and surprisingly sharp cornered. Literally as new in a like slipcase ( more information)
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YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Brand new. Do prehistoric stone monuments in Britain and Ireland incorporate deliberate astronomical alignments, and if so, what is their purpose and meaning? This work provides an account of megalithic astronomy debates and examines prehistoric man's concern with c ( more information)
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