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Celestial geometry : understanding the astronomical meanings of ancient sites / Ken Taylor.

by Taylor, Ken, 1959-

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London : Watkins Pub., 2012.

Archaeoastronomy.

Landscape archaeology.

Megalithic monuments.

240 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 26 cm.

Introducing astronomy -- The Sun - light of our lives. Introducing the solstices -- Stonehenge -- Karnak -- The ancient temples of Malta -- The Nebra Sky Disc -- The Goseck Circle -- Die Externsteine -- The castellieri -- Machu Picchu -- Nazca -- Introducing the equinoxes -- Chaco Canyon -- Hovenweep -- Casa Grande -- Cahokia -- Dzibitchalun -- Chichen Itzá -- Uaxactun-- Wurdi Youang -- Karahunj -- The Crucuno rectangle -- Eleusis -- Introducing solar burial -- Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth -- Maeshowe -- Carnac -- Los Millares -- Hashihaka Kofun -- Introducing other solar alignments -- Amarna -- Abu Simbel -- Dengfeng -- Chankillo -- Cuzco -- Cross-quarter days -- The Saroeak -- Solar mysteries of Central America -- Teotihuacan -- Altavista -- Xochicalco -- Palenque -- Solar deities and mythology -- The moon - mirror to our sou. Mapping the moon -- Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth -- Introducing eclipses -- Australian eclipse -- Eclipse Commemoration Pavilion -- Angkor Wat -- Introducing the lunar standstills -- Callanish -- Stonehenge -- Recumbent stone circles -- Le Grand Menhir Brise -- Short stone rows -- Lunar deities and mythology -- The stars and planets - immortal heavens. Introducing the planets -- The Dendera Zodiac -- Introducing Venus -- Uxmal -- Chichen Itza -- Meteorites -- Introducing the circumpolar stars -- Giza -- Vijayanagara -- Introducing Sirius -- Introducing the Pleiades -- The Heiau -- The Moai -- Introducing the Milky Way -- Temple of the Fox -- Misminay -- Introducing the Great Bear -- Other stars and constellations -- Thornborough -- Lascaux -- Star charts of Malta -- Monte Alban -- Medicine wheels -- Introducing Temples of the Cosmos -- Angkor Wat -- Borobudur -- Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum -- Tomb paintings of Japan -- Mysteries of Mithras -- Planetary and stellar deities and mythology -- Taking Archaeoastronomy further.

"Explores the achievements of ancient astronomers at sites, from European stone circles like Stonehenge and the pyramids of Egypt and Central America, to the medicine wheels of North America and the carved monoliths of Easter Island."--B&T.

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