Archaeoastronomy in Archaeology and Ethnography
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1) The Firestar in China - A European approach (Katalin Barlai, B. Lukács); 2) The Function of the Minoan oval house at Chamaizi (Mary Blomberg and Göran Henriksson); 3) The orientation of Greek temples: a statistical analysis (Efrosyni Boutsikas) 4)Architecture of light (George Dimitriadis); 5) The orientation of the 'Hünenbetten' of Lower Saxony (A. C. González-García 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 onEaster 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 Sebk); 16) The Pleiades constellation's ethnoastronomicalaspects and the Romanian peasants (Florin Stanescu); 17) Ursa Major in Lithuanian folk tradition(Jonas Vaisknas); 18) Stars of Wonder: Venus in the Daylight Sky (Lajos Bartha); 19) How did the constellation of the Bear receive its name (Peter E Blomberg); 20) Chronology for the Egyptian Pharaohs of the Amarna period and the Israeli leaders Moses and Joshua by correlation with eight solar eclipses (Göran Henriksson); 21) Glyphs E and D in the Lunar Series from Quirigua, Guatemala and Copan, Honduras (Stanisaw Iwaniszewski); 22) Cosmic spinning and weaving: Making the Texture of the World(Michael A. Rappenglück); 23) Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg: An Italian High Renaissance Villa (Curt Roslund, Emília Pásztor, Göran Olofsson)

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