Archaeoastronomy in Archaeology and Ethnography [Paperback]

Papers from the annual meeting of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy in Culture) held in Kecskem??t in Hungary in 2004. Contents: 1) The Firestar in China - A European approach (Katalin Barlai, B. Luk??cs); 2) The Function of the Minoan oval house at Chamaizi (Mary Blomberg and G??ran Henriksson); 3) The orientation of Greek temples: a statistical analysis (Efrosyni Boutsikas) 4) Architecture of light (George Dimitriadis); 5) The orientation of the 'Huenenbetten' of Lower Saxony (A. C. Gonz??lez-Garc??a and L. Costa Ferrer); 6) The Dacian capital Sarmizegetusa-Regia was sited according to precise astronomic alignments and Pythagorean doctrines (Franz Kerek); 7) Megalithic complex Akhunovo - one of the most ancient observatories (Andrey Kirillov and Fyodor Petrov); 8) Domestic icons in the life of man from the Neolithic and Eneolithic age and their archaeoastronomical meaning (Ivelina Miteva, Mina Stoeva, Penka Muglova, Milen Mitev, Alexey Stoev); 9) Astronomical Basis of Arrangement of Sacral Space of the Eneolithic Burial Mounds in the Northern Pontic Area (on materials of the archaeological excavations) (Tamila Potyomkina); 10) Typology of the mountain Thrace archaeoastronomical sites (Alexey Stoev, Penka Muglova, Mina Stoeva, Ivelina Miteva); 11) The problem of time in prehistory, symbol signs and time measuring (Mina Stoeva); 12) Astronomy and landscape on Easter Island. New hints in the light of ethnographical sources (Juan Antonio Belmonte and Edmundo Edwards); 13) Month Names and Astronyms in Bulgarian Folk and Literary Heritage (Dimiter Kolev and Svetlana Koleva); 14) Wooden Calendars from Southeastern Bulgaria (Vesselina Koleva); 15) Celestial phenomena in Hungarian folk tradition (Szilvia Sebok); 16) The Pleiades constellation's ethnoastronomical aspects and the Romanian peasants (Florin Stanescu); 17) Ursa Major in Lithuanian folk tradition (Jonas Vaikunas); 18) Stars of Wonder: Venus in the Daylight Sky (Lajos Bartha); ls3