The papers in this book, summarising the proceedings of a conference at the University of Oxford in September 1981, are concerned with shedding light on a contr
Archaeoastronomy is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary inquiry into the minds of our prehistoric and ancient ancestors, one that attempts to reconstruct the
Exploring Ancient Skies brings together the methods of archaeology and the insights of modern astronomy to explore the science of astronomy as it was practiced
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