Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ruggles, Clive L.N (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Physics.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Archaeology.; Human geography.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Human Geography.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

How human communities interpret what they perceive in the sky is vital in fulfilling humankind’s most basic need to comprehend the universe it inhabits, both from a modern scientific perspective and from countless other cultural standpoints, extending right back to early prehistory. Archaeoastronomy...