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...

Table of Contents:

• Themes and Issues
• Methods and Practice
• Pre-Columbian and Indigenous North America
• Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Mesoamerica
• Indigenous and Islamic Astronomy in Africa Pre-Columbian and Indigenous South America
• Prehistoric Europe (Western Part)
• Prehistoric Europe (Central and Eastern Part) and Central Asia
• Ancient Egypt and the Classical World
• Traditional Astronomies in Medieval and Modern Europe
• Ancient Near East
• India and the Islamic Near East
• China and the Far East
• Oceania (Including Australasia and Malay Archipelago).