Tore lomsdalen (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The megalithic temples of Malta, one of UNESCO's World Heritage sites, have been a continued attraction for exploring unanswered questions about prehistoric culture. In this book, Tore Lomsdalen situates the temples in their archaeological context and reviews the archaeoastronomical surveys on them. He then turns to the question of intentionality in the alignment of the Mnajdra South temple. Lomsdalen presents the results of years of fieldwork conducted at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and introduces new evidence and insights into the quixotic temple architecture and its relationships with the sky.…

Softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. XXXII + 328 pages, trade paperback, fine. - - Contents: List of Figures, List of Tables; Frank Ventura: Introduction: The Materiality of the Sky; Contributors. - - Maltese Archaeoastronomy: Frank Ventura: Reading Messages from the Past: Interpreting Symbols Possible Archaeastronomical Significance in Malta. - - Tore Lomsdalen: The 'Oracle Holes' of the Maltese Prehistoric Temples: An Investigation of their Astronomical/Solar Alignments. - - John Cox: Inclusion and Exclusion of Sunlight and Moonlight From Temples of the Ggantija and Tarxien Phases. - - Cosmology and Cosmovision: Michael A. Rappenglück: Cosmovisions Put Upona Disk: Another View of the Nebra Disk. - - Juan Antonio Belmonte & José Miguel Noguerra Celdrán (etc.): Astronomy and Landscape in Carthago Nova. - - Roslyn M. Frank: A Status Report: A Review of Research on the Origins and Diffusion of the Belief in a Sky Bear. - - Marianna Ridderstad: In Search of Päivätär, the Finnish Solar Goddess. - - Göran Henriksson: The Nordic Calendar and the Great Midwinter Sacrifice at Old Uppsala. - - Michael A. Rappenglück: Fire from the Heavens: The Idea of Cosmic Fire across Archaic Cultures. - - Astronomical Orientations: Gangui/González-García/Betancort/Belmonte: On the Orientation of the Historic Churches of Lanzarote: When Human Necessity Dominates over Canonical Prescriptions. - - Rogríguez-Antón/González-García/Belmonte: Orientation of Roman Camps and Forts in Britannia: Reconsidering Alan Richardson's Work. - - Thomas Gough: Evidence for the Existence of Solar and Lunar Alignments in Western Scotland: The Contrasting Nature of Backsights, Foresights and Alignments. - - Morgan Saletta: Architecture, Illumination and Cosmology: the Arles-Fontvielle Monuments, Archaeoastronomy and Megalithic Studies. - - Fatima Brana Rey & Ana Ulla Miguel: An Ethnoastonomy Study on the Astronomical Orientation and Astral Decoration of the Stone Granaries (Hórreos) of Vilaboa (Galicia, Spain). - - Gail Higginbottom & Roger Clay: Connections: The Relationships between Neothici and Bronze Age Megalithic Astronomy in Britain. - - César Esteban & José Ángel Ocharan Ibarra: Winter Solstice at the Iberian Cave-Sanctuary of La Nariz. - - Georg Zotti & Günter Wuchterl: Raising Awareness of Light Pollution by Simulation of Nocturnal Light of Astronomical Cultural Heritage Sites. - - Lozito/Maurici/Polcaro/Scuderi: New Findings at the 'Petre De La Mola" Megaliths. - - Astronomy and Culture in Historical Times: Flora Vafea: Sirius (al-'Abur) Proper Motions as Recorded in the Arabic Star Mythology. - - Benito Vilas Estevez: The Stones of Penas de Rodas: Can the 'Spell of Archaeo-astronomy" Create a Contmporary Sacred Place? - - M. Pilar Burillo-Cuadrado: The Sphere in Antiquity. - - North and South America: J. McKim Malville & Andrew Munro: Houses of the Sun and the Collapse of Chacoan Culture. - - Steven R. Gullsberg: Astronomy and Ceque System of Cusco. - - Stanislaw Iwaniszewski: The Temple of the Inscriptions in the Spiritual Landscape at Palenque. - - Egypt, the Mediterranean and Asia: González-García/Zedda/Belmonte: A Comparative Study of Megalithic Monuments in Sardinia and Beyond. - - Andrea Orlando: Archaeoastronomy in Sicily: Megaliths and Rocky Sites. - - Vance Tiede: The Tall Gnomon of Guo Shoujing. An Astro-Archaeological Analysis.…

Zustand: New.

Sophia Centre Press, 2016. xxxii, 328 pp. Paperback. Good condition. ISBN 978-1-907767-09-8.