SEAC 2011 stars and stones : voyages in archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy
Subtitle: proceedings of the SEAC 2011 conference
By: edited by F. Pimenta, N. Ribeiro, F. Silva, N. Campion, A. Joaquinito, L. Tirapicos
Contributors: Pimenta, Fernando (Archaeoastronomer) editor; Ribeiro, Nuno (Archaeologist) editor; Silva, Fabio (Fabio P.), editor; Campion, Nicholas, editor; Joaquinito, Anabela, editor; Tirapicos, Luís, editor
Series: BAR international series -- 2720; BAR international series -- 2720.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781407313733
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Archaeoastronomy; Ethnoastronomy; Congresses
Notes: "The 19th meeting of the European Society for Astronomy and Culture was held in Évora, Portugal, from September 19th to 23th, 2011"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Opening and public lecture. Voyages guided by the skies: ancient concepts of exploring and domesticating time and space across cultures / Michael A. Rappenglück; title: Voyages of the Zodiac, an impenitent traveller across lands and ages / Juan Antonio Belmonte; title: 2. Astronomical navigation. An encounter of worlds. The archaeology of the nautical astrolabe: news from a shipwreck in Namibia / José Manuel Malhão Pereira; title: Celestial navigation in the USA, Fiji, and Tunisia / Jarita C. Holbrook; title: The problem of longitude in the 18th century: Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa and the expedition of the Paris Academy of Sciences to the kingdom of Peru / Manuel Pérez Gutiérrez; title: Star-paths, stones and horizon astronomy / Bernadette Brady; title: Protohistoric and historical Atlantic navigation: archaeological evidence from the Azores / Nuno Ribeiro, Anabela Joaquinito, Fernando Pimenta, Herbert Sauren, António Félix Rodrigues, Antonieta Costa, António Sérgio Pereira, Maria de fRaga Juliano, Joaquim, Fernandes, Ricardo Freitas, Ricardo Ventura, and Luís Tirapicos; title: 3. Archaeoastronomical voyages in antiquity, Egypt, Middle East and Mediterranean. The development of the sacred landscape of Saqqara in the Old Kingdom / Giulio Magli; title: Orientation of the villas at Tylissos on Crete and their relationships to the Minoan calendar / Göran Henriksson, Mary Blomberg; title: Defining astrology in ancient and classical history / Nicholas Campion; title: Orion in Homer: is it a terrestrial, an astral or an astronomical myth? / Manuela Revello; title: Himera and Pyrgi: the diagonals and the alignments of the temples / Marcello Ranieri; title: Plato's cosmic theology: a rationale for a polytheistic astrology? / André Henriques; title: Ancient topometry, the tracing of towns in the Roman epoch: Ulpia Traiana dacica Sarmizegetusa - Romania. Second part / Florin Stanescu; title: 4. Ethnoastronomical voyages in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Reading alien landscapes: thick versus thin descriptions in archaeoastronomy / J. McKim Malville; title: Statistical analysis of temple orientation in ancient India / Alba Aller, Juan Antonio Belmonte; title: The cosmos in Portuguese popular tradition: a bibliographic and fieldwork approach / Catarina Oliveira; title: On the intercourse between Indian and Arabic/Persian astrologies / Audrius Beinorius; title: 5. Ethnoastronomical voyages in North America, Mesoamerica and South America. Shaking Eden: voyages, bodies and change in the social construction of South American skies / Alejandro Martín López; title: Sky travelers: cosmological experiences among evangelical Indians from the Argentinian Chaco / Agustina Altman; title: 6. Archaeoastronomical voyages in paleolithic and neolithic cultures. Notes on archaeoastronomy in Portugal: from first light to dark moon / Cândido Marciano da Silva; title: A voyage around the recumbent stone circles of north-east Scotland / Liz Henty; title: Danish passage graves, 'spring/summer/fall full moons' and lunar standstills / Clas Jørgen Clausen; title: Ditched enclosures in southern Portugal: an archaeoastronomical view / J. Mejuto, A. Carlos Valera, J. Gómez Castaño, G. Rodríguez-Caderot, Helmut Becker; title: Possible astronomical intentionality in the Neolithic Mnajdra south temple in Malta / Tore Lomsdalen; title: Astronomical topographical orientation of Kreisgrabenanlagen in lower Austria / Georg Zotti, Wolfgang Neubauer; title: Out of Africa: the solarization of the moon / Lionel Sims; title: A possible astronomically aligned monolith at Gardom's Edge / Daniel Brown, Andy Alder, Elizabeth Bemand; title: 7. Archaeoastronomical voyages in Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. A place along the way: contextualising findings from the Iron Age post enclosure at Lismullin, Co. Meath, Ireland / Frank Prendergast; title: Open air rock art between Alva and Ceira Rivers: a voyage through mining, trading, transhumance routes and the orientation in the landscape / F. Pimenta, N. Ribeiro, A. Smith, A. Joaquinito, S. Pereira and L. Tirapicos; title: Astronomical orientations in sanctuaries of Daunia / E. Antonello, V.F. Polcaro, A.M. Tunzi Sisto, M. Lo Zupone; title: From hillforts to saints: sun tropoi and patterns of christianization in NW Spain / Marco V. García Quintela, A. César González García, Yolanda Seoane Veiga; title: Astronomical aspects of Krakow's monumental mounds / Joanna Kozakiewicz; title: A myth in Celtiberian astronomy / Ma. Pilar Burillo-Cuadrado; title: The astronomical sanctuary of the Celtiberian town of Segeda (Mara, Zaragoza, Spain) / Francisco Burillo-Mozota, Manuel Pérez-Gutiérrez; title: Modeling and analysis of the Gobustan sundial observatory / Abasali Rustamov, Gunay Rustamova; title: 8. Archaeoastronomical voyages in medieval time in orient and occident. A voyage of Christian medieval astronomy: symbolic, ritual and political orientation of churches / A. César González-García; title: Transient astronomical events as inspiration sources of medieval art. III: the 13th and 14th centuries, and the case of the French "ordre de l'étoile" / F. Bònoli, M. Incerti, V.F. Polcaro; title: English medieval churches, 'festival orientaiton' and William Wordsworth / Peter G. Hoare, Hans Ketel; title: 9. History of astronomy: an encounter of cultures. Gods, demons and deceivers: Jesuits facing Chaco skies / Alejandro Martín López; title: Boscovich, the Brera Observatory and the Enlightenment / Elio Antonello; title: Archaeology and astronomy. A 300-year voyage / Jody Morellato; title: Astronomy and "Azuelejo" panels in Portuguese Jesuit colleges / Rosário Salema de carvalho, Samuel Gessner, Luís Tirapicos; title: The role of cultural astronomy in bridging the snow's "two cultures": some Italian experiences / V.F. Polcaro; title: Evangelista Torricelli and astronomy / Rosa María Herrera; title: 10. Round table: To where is  Archaeoastronomy voyaging?  Archaeoastronomy, cultural astronomy and education. Navigating between the scylla of social construction and charybdis of logical empiricism: the construction of facts in archaeoastronomy / Stanisław Iwaniszewski; title: Where is cultural astronomy going? / Lionel Sims.