Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (Iau S278)

Building Bridges Between Cultures
Herausgeber: Ruggles, Clive L N

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introduction to 'cultural astronomy' for a broad audience, IAU S278 presents multidisciplinary discussions of our worldwide astronomical heritage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 430
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 182mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 895g
• ISBN-13: 9781107019782
• ISBN-10: 1107019788
• Artikelnr.: 34014071

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. General Themes
Part II. South America: 1. Ethnoastronomy
2. Archaeoastronomy outside Peru
3. Archaeoastronomy within Peru
Part III. Central and North America: 4. The 2012 phenomenon
5. North America
Part IV. Global Cultural Astronomy: 6. Polynesia
7. Australia
8. Far East
9. Near East
10. Europe
11. Africa
Part V. Dissemination, Heritage
Part VI. Commentary
Author index.