Astronomy and society in Britain during the period 4000-1500 B.C.
By: edited by C.L.N. Ruggles & A.W.R. Whittle.
Contributors: Ruggles, C. L. N.; Whittle, A. W. R.
Series: BAR British series ;; 88
Publisher: B.A.R.
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Neolithic period -- Great Britain.; Bronze age -- Great Britain.; Astronomy, Prehistoric -- Great Britain.; Megalithic monuments -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Megalithic lunar observatories / A.S. Thom; title: Decoding the Callanish complex / Margaret and Gerald Ponting; title: Wise men in antiquity? / Euan W. MacKie; title: A critical examination of the megalithic lunar observatories / Clive Ruggles; title: A reassessment of the solstitial observatories at Kintraw and Ballachroy / Jon Patrick; title: Some archaeological and astronomical objections to scientific astronomy in British prehistory / Gordon Moir; title: "By the light of the cinerary moon" / Aubrey Burl; title: Ethnoastronomy / I.J. Thorpe; title: Some notes on work organisation and society in prehistoric Wessex / Bill Startin and Richard Bradley; title: Later Neolithic society in Britain / Alasdair Whittle.