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Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 2 Concepts of Space, Time, and the Cosmos
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    Chapter 3 Astronomy and Chronology - Babylonia, Assyria, and Egypt
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    Chapter 4 Calendars and Astronomy
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    Chapter 5 Astronomy and Power
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    Chapter 6 Astronomy and Politics
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    Chapter 7 Astronomy and Navigation
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    Chapter 9 Ancient “Observatories” - A Relevant Concept?
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    Chapter 10 Astronomy and Rock Art Studies
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    Chapter 11 Origins of the “Western” Constellations
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    Chapter 12 Presentation of Archaeoastronomy in Introductions to Archaeology
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    Chapter 13 Astronomy in the Service of Islam
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    Chapter 14 Cultural Interpretation of Ethnographic Evidence Relating to Astronomy
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    Chapter 15 Astronomy in the Service of Christianity
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    Chapter 16 Astrology as Cultural Astronomy
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    Chapter 17 Development of Archaeoastronomy in the English-Speaking World
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    Chapter 18 Archaeoastronomical Heritage and the World Heritage Convention
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    Chapter 19 Astronomy, Astrology, and Medicine
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    Chapter 20 Archaeoastronomical Concepts in Popular Culture
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    Chapter 21 Astrotourism and Archaeoastronomy
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    Chapter 22 Nature and Analysis of Material Evidence Relevant to Archaeoastronomy
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    Chapter 23 Disciplinary Perspectives on Archaeoastronomy
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    Chapter 24 Cultural Interpretation of Archaeological Evidence Relating to Astronomy
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    Chapter 25 Best Practice for Evaluating the Astronomical Significance of Archaeological Sites
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    Chapter 26 Analyzing Orientations
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    Chapter 27 Analyzing Light-and-Shadow Interactions
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    Chapter 29 Cultural Interpretation of Historical Evidence Relating to Astronomy
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    Chapter 30 Interactions Between “Indigenous” and “Colonial” Astronomies: Adaptation of Indigenous Astronomies in the Modern World
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    Chapter 31 Techniques of Field Survey
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    Chapter 32 Visualization Tools and Techniques
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    Chapter 33 Basic Concepts of Positional Astronomy
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    Chapter 35 Long-Term Changes in the Appearance of the Sky
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    Chapter 36 Solar Alignments - Identification and Analysis
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    Chapter 37 Lunar Alignments - Identification and Analysis
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    Chapter 38 Alignments upon Venus (and Other Planets) - Identification and Analysis
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    Chapter 39 Stellar Alignments - Identification and Analysis
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    Chapter 40 Inuit Astronomy
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    Chapter 41 Medicine Wheels of the Great Plains
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    Chapter 42 Hopi and Anasazi Alignments and Rock Art
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    Chapter 43 Hohokam Archaeoastronomy
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    Chapter 44 Diné (Navajo) Ethno- and Archaeoastronomy
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    Chapter 45 Rock Art of the Greater Southwest
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    Chapter 47 Great Houses and the Sun - Astronomy of Chaco Canyon
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    Chapter 48 Hopi and Puebloan Ethnoastronomy and Ethnoscience
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    Chapter 49 Mesa Verde Archaeoastronomy
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    Chapter 51 Astronomy and Rock Art in Mexico
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    Chapter 52 Boca de Potrerillos
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    Chapter 54 Counting Lunar Phase Cycles in Mesoamerica
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    Chapter 55 Astronomical Deities in Ancient Mesoamerica
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    Chapter 56 Astronomical Correlates of Architecture and Landscape in Mesoamerica
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    Chapter 57 Pecked Cross-Circles
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    Chapter 58 Cave of the Astronomers at Xochicalco
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    Chapter 59 Astronomy at Teotihuacan
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    Chapter 60 Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan - Calendar and Astronomy
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    Chapter 61 Colonial Zapotec Calendars and Calendrical Astronomy
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    Chapter 65 Astronomy in the Dresden Codex
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    Chapter 66 Layout of Ancient Maya Cities
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    Chapter 68 Governor’s Palace at Uxmal
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    Chapter 69 E-Group Arrangements
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    Chapter 72 Skyscape of an Amazonian Diaspora: Arawak Astronomy in Historical Comparative Perspective
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    Chapter 73 Moxos’ Lagoons
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    Chapter 74 Observations of Comets and Eclipses in the Andes
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    Chapter 75 Chankillo
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    Chapter 76 Geoglyphs of the Peruvian Coast
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    Chapter 77 Pre-Inca Astronomy in Peru
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    Chapter 78 Inca Astronomy and Calendrics
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    Chapter 79 Inca Calendar
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    Chapter 80 Ceque System of Cuzco: A Yearly Calendar-Almanac in Space and Time
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    Chapter 81 Inca Moon: Some Evidence of Lunar Observations in Tahuantinsuyu
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    Chapter 82 Inca Royal Estates in the Sacred Valley
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    Chapter 83 Island of the Sun: Elite and Non-Elite Observations of the June Solstice
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    Chapter 84 “Chiriguano” Astronomy - Venus and a Guarani New Year
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    Chapter 85 Astronomy in the Chaco Region, Argentina
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    Chapter 86 Ethnoastronomy in the Multicultural Context of the Agricultural Colonies in Northern Santa Fe Province, Argentina
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    Chapter 87 Astronomy in Brazilian Ethnohistory
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    Chapter 88 Ticuna Astronomy, Mythology and Cosmovision
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    Chapter 89 Astronomy and Cosmology of the Guarani of Southern Brazil
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    Chapter 90 The Sky Among the Toba of Western Formosa (Gran Chaco, Argentina)
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    Chapter 92 Landscape, Mountain Worship and Astronomy in Socaire
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    Chapter 93 Selk╹nam Astronomy
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    Chapter 94 Indigenous Astronomy in Southern Africa
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    Chapter 95 “Reading” Central African Skies - A Case Study from Southeastern DRC
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    Chapter 96 Yoruba Ethnoastronomy - “Orisha/Vodun” or How People’s Conceptions of the Sky Constructed Science
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    Chapter 99 Cultural Astronomy in Africa South of the Sahara
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    Chapter 100 Mursi and Borana Calendars
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    Chapter 101 Astronomy at Nabta Playa, Southern Egypt
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    Chapter 102 Pre-Islamic Dry-Stone Monuments of the Central and Western Sahara
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    Chapter 103 Calendar Pluralism and the Cultural Heritage of Domination and Resistance (Tuareg and Other Saharans)
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    Chapter 104 Astronomy as Practiced in the West African City of Timbuktu
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    Chapter 105 Pre-Islamic Religious Monuments in North Africa
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    Chapter 106 Pre-Hispanic Sanctuaries in the Canary Islands
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    Chapter 107 A Modern Myth - The “Pyramids” of Güímar
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    Chapter 108 Patterns of Orientation in the Megalithic Tombs of the Western Mediterranean
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    Chapter 109 Seven-Stone Antas
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    Chapter 110 Megalithic Cromlechs of Iberia
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    Chapter 111 Iberian Sanctuaries
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    Chapter 112 Taula Sanctuaries of Menorca
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    Chapter 113 Celtic Sites of Central Iberia
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    Chapter 114 Basque Saroiak
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    Chapter 115 Possible Calendrical Inscriptions on Paleolithic Artifacts
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    Chapter 116 Possible Astronomical Depictions in Franco-Cantabrian Paleolithic Rock Art
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    Chapter 117 Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy
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    Chapter 118 Stonehenge and its Landscape
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    Chapter 119 The Neolithic and Bronze Age Monument Complex of Thornborough, North Yorkshire, UK
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    Chapter 120 Irish Neolithic Tombs in their Landscape
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    Chapter 121 Boyne Valley Tombs
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    Chapter 122 Recumbent Stone Circles
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    Chapter 123 Scottish Short Stone Rows
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    Chapter 124 TRB Megalithic Tombs and Long Barrows in Central Europe
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    Chapter 125 Lessons of Odry
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    Chapter 126 Neolithic Longhouses and Bronze Age Houses in Central Europe
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    Chapter 127 Neolithic Circular Ditch Systems (“Rondels”) in Central Europe
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    Chapter 128 Nebra Disk
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    Chapter 129 Celestial Symbolism in Central European Later Prehistory - Case Studies from the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin
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    Chapter 130 Astronomical Orientation in the Ancient Dacian Sanctuaries of Romania
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    Chapter 131 Sardinian Nuraghes
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    Chapter 132 Nuraghic Well of Santa Cristina, Paulilatino, Oristano, Sardinia
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    Chapter 133 Temples of Malta
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    Chapter 134 Celestial Symbolism of the Vučedol Culture
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    Chapter 135 Thracian Sanctuaries
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    Chapter 136 Thracian Dolmens
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    Chapter 137 Astronomy in the Bulgarian Neolithic
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    Chapter 138 Astronomy in the Ancient Caucasus
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    Chapter 139 Observational and Cult Sites in Pre-Christian Georgia
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    Chapter 140 Carahunge - A Critical Assessment
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    Chapter 141 Minoan Astronomy
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    Chapter 146 Orientation of Egyptian Temples: An Overview
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    Chapter 147 Egyptian Cosmology and Cosmogony
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    Chapter 148 Egyptian Constellations
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    Chapter 149 Ancient Egyptian Calendars
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    Chapter 150 Egyptian “Star Clocks”
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    Chapter 151 Monuments of the Giza Plateau
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    Chapter 152 Karnak
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    Chapter 153 Kingdom of Kush
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    Chapter 154 Greek Cosmology and Cosmogony
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    Chapter 155 Greek Temples and Rituals
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    Chapter 156 Ancient Greek Calendars
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    Chapter 157 Greco-Roman Astrometeorology
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    Chapter 158 Greek Constellations
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    Chapter 159 Greek Mathematical Astronomy
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    Chapter 160 Greco-Roman Astrology
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    Chapter 161 Material Culture of Greek and Roman Astronomy
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    Chapter 162 Reconstructing the Antikythera Mechanism
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    Chapter 163 Etruscan Divination and Architecture
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    Chapter 164 Roman City Planning and Spatial Organization
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    Chapter 165 Light at the Pantheon
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    Chapter 166 Nemrud Dag
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    Chapter 167 Mithraism
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    Chapter 168 Skylore of the Indigenous Peoples of Northern Eurasia
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    Chapter 171 Qibla in the Mediterranean
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    Chapter 172 Interactions Between Islamic and Christian Traditions in the Iberian Peninsula
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    Chapter 173 Orientation of Christian Churches
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    Chapter 174 Orientation of English Medieval Parish Churches
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    Chapter 175 Church Orientations in Slovenia
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    Chapter 176 Church Orientations in Central and Eastern Europe
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    Chapter 177 Role of Light–Shadow Hierophanies in Early Medieval Art
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    Chapter 178 Light–Shadow Interactions in Italian Medieval Churches
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    Chapter 179 Lost Skies of Italian Folk Astronomy
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    Chapter 180 Folk Calendars in the Balkan Region
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    Chapter 181 Wooden Calendar Sticks in Eastern Europe
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    Chapter 182 Orientation of Hittite Monuments
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    Chapter 183 Orientation of Phoenician Temples
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    Chapter 184 Astronomy in the Levant During the Bronze Age and Iron Age
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    Chapter 185 Petra and the Nabataeans
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    Chapter 186 Mesopotamian Cosmogony and Cosmology
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    Chapter 187 Mesopotamian Star Lists
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    Chapter 188 Mesopotamian Celestial Divination
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    Chapter 189 Mesopotamian Calendars
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    Chapter 190 Astronomy, Divination, and Politics in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
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    Chapter 191 Babylonian Observational and Predictive Astronomy
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    Chapter 192 Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy
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    Chapter 193 Late Babylonian Astrology
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    Chapter 194 Transmission of Babylonian Astronomy to Other Cultures
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    Chapter 195 Ancient and Medieval Jewish Calendars
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    Chapter 196 Astronomy in the Book of Enoch
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    Chapter 197 Astronomy and Calendars at Qumran
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    Chapter 198 Ancient Persian Skywatching and Calendars
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    Chapter 199 Islamic Folk Astronomy
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    Chapter 200 Folk Astronomy and Calendars in Yemen
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    Chapter 201 Star Clocks and Water Management in Oman
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    Chapter 202 Islamic Mathematical Astronomy
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    Chapter 203 Islamic Astronomical Instruments and Observatories
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    Chapter 204 Astronomy of the Vedic Age
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    Chapter 205 Mathematical Astronomy in India
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    Chapter 207 Vākya System of Astronomy
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    Chapter 208 Astronomy of Indian Cities, Temples, and Pilgrimage Centers
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    Chapter 209 Kerala School of Astronomy
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    Chapter 210 Ancient Chinese Astronomy - An Overview
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    Chapter 211 Shang Oracle Bones
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    Chapter 212 Excavated Documents Dealing with Chinese Astronomy
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    Chapter 214 Astronomy and City Planning in China
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    Chapter 215 Taosi Observatory
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    Chapter 216 Chinese Constellations and Star Maps
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    Chapter 217 Beijing Ancient Observatory
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    Chapter 218 Dengfeng Large Gnomon
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    Chapter 219 Gnomons in Ancient China
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    Chapter 221 Water-Powered Astronomical Clock Tower
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    Chapter 222 Ancient Chinese Sundials
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    Chapter 223 Chinese Armillary Spheres
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    Chapter 224 Observation of Celestial Phenomena in Ancient China
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    Chapter 225 Chinese Calendar and Mathematical Astronomy
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    Chapter 228 Astronomical Aspects of Korean Dolmens
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    Chapter 230 Striking Clepsydras
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    Chapter 232 Korean Astronomical Calendar, Chiljeongsan
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    Chapter 233 Cultural Astronomy in Japan
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    Chapter 236 Cultural Production of Skylore in Indonesia
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    Chapter 238 Australian Aboriginal Astronomy: Overview
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    Chapter 240 Australian Aboriginal Astronomy and Cosmology
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    Chapter 243 Archaeoastronomy in Polynesia
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    Chapter 244 Ancient Hawaiian Astronomy
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    Chapter 246 Archaeoastronomy of Easter Island
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    Chapter 247 Sun-Dagger Sites
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    Chapter 248 Pueblo Ethnoastronomy
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    Chapter 249 Song I-Yeong’s Armillary Clock
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    Chapter 251 Astronomical Instruments in India
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    Chapter 252 Observatories of Sawai Jai Singh II
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    Chapter 253 Use of Astronomical Principles in Indian Temple Architecture
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    Chapter 254 Machu Picchu
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    Chapter 301 Publishers Erratum to Chapter 185: Astronomy of the Vedic Age
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Chapter title
Astronomy of the Vedic Age
Chapter number 204
Book title
Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy
Published in
ADS, July 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_204
Book ISBNs
978-1-4614-6140-1, 978-1-4614-6141-8
Authors

Yukio Ôhashi

Editors

Clive L.N. Ruggles

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