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A little history of astro-archaeology : stages in the transformation of a heresy.
Penn Museum Library GN799.A8 M5 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michell, John F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeoastronomy.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Updated and enlarged edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thames & Hudson, 2001.
- Contents:
- An idea in its infancy 9
- Sir Norman Lockyer in Egypt 19
- Stonehenge 23
- Contemporaries and followers of Lockyer 29
- Objections to Lockyer 43
- The Old Straight Track 49
- 'Prehistoric nationalism': the strange history of astro-archaeology in Germany 58
- Stonehenge 'decoded' 66
- Alexander Thom and the modern revival of astro-archaeology 70
- Lines across landscapes 79
- Mystical approaches 87
- Sunlight, shadows and moonbeams 91
- Lines and alignments in South America 97
- Conclusions: astro-archaeology as geomancy 110.
- ISBN:
- 0500275572
- OCLC:
- 48104191
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