Title Skyscapes : the role and importance of the sky in archaeology / edited by Fabio Silva and Nicholas Campion.

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Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015.

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Summary	"Eleven papers extend discussion of the role and importance of the landscape and the wider environment to past societies, and to the understanding and interpretation of their material remains, into consideration of the significance of the celestial environment: the skyscape. The role of the sky for past societies has been relegated to the fringes of archaeological discourse. Nevertheless archaeoastronomy has developed a new rigour in the last few decades and the evidence suggests that it can provide insights into the beliefs, practices and cosmologies of past societies. Skyscapes explores the current role of archaeoastronomical knowledge in archaeological discourse and how to integrate the two"--Provided by publisher.
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Contents	Preface: Meaning and intent in ancient skyscapes : an Andean perspective / J. McKim Malville -- The role and importance of the sky in archaeology : an introduction / Fabio Silva -- Skyscapes : locating archaeoastronomy within academia / Nicholas Campion -- An examination of the divide between archaeoastronomy and archaeology / Liz Henty -- Skyscapes : present and past : from sustainability to interpreting ancient remains / Daniel Brown -- 30b : the West Kennet Avenue stone that never was : interpretation by multidisciplinary triangulation and emergence through four field anthropology / Lionel Sims -- Can archaeoastronomy inform archaeology on the building chronology of the Mnajdra Neolithic temple in Malta? / Tore Lomsdalen -- Star phases : the naked-eye astronomy of the Old Kingdom pyramid texts / Bernadette Brady -- An architectural perspective on structured sacred space : recent evidence from Iron Age Ireland / Frank Prendergast -- The circumpolar skyscape of a Pembrokeshire dolmen / Olwyn Pritchard -- The view from within : a "time-space-action" approach to megalithism in central Portugal / Fabio Silva -- Afterword: Dances beneath a diamond sky / Timothy Darvill.
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Subject	Archaeoastronomy.
	Landscape archaeology.
	Sky -- Social aspects -- History.
	Cosmology -- History.
	Astrology -- History.
	Sacred space -- History.
	Prehistoric peoples.
	Social archaeology.
	SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
	Archaeoastronomy. (OCoLC)fst00812887
	Astrology. (OCoLC)fst00819398
	Cosmology. (OCoLC)fst00880600
	Landscape archaeology. (OCoLC)fst00991791
	Prehistoric peoples. (OCoLC)fst01075242
	Sacred space. (OCoLC)fst01103191
	Social archaeology. (OCoLC)fst01122274
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic book.
Added Author	Silva, Fabio (Fabio P.)
	Campion, Nicholas.
Other Form:	Print version: Skyscapes. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2015 9781782978404 (DLC) 2015002812
ISBN	9781782978435 (electronic bk.)
	1782978437 (electronic bk.)
	1782978402
	9781782978404
	9781782978411
	1782978410
	9781782978428
	1782978429

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