Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures / / ed. by Arkadiusz Soltysiak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bar-Ilan, Meir,; Gropp, Harald,; Guillaume, Philippe,; Iwaniszewski, Stanisław,; Jakubiak, Krzysztof,; Koleva, Svetlana,; Koleva, Vesselina,; McCluskey, Stephen,; Schmidl, Petra G.,; Sims, Lionel,; Sołtysiak, Arkadiusz,; Vaiškūnas, Jonas,; Zimmermann, Thomas,; Żerańska-Kominek, Sławomira,
• HerausgeberIn: Soltysiak, Arkadiusz,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Précis Portfolios
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Preface --; Complete list of papers presented at the conference --; The Calendar in the Flood Narrative --; Sabbatical Calendar and Priestly Narrative --; Mesopotamian Influence on Persian Sky-watching and Calendar. Part I. Mithra, Shamash and Solar Festivals --; The Philosophy of Time and Time Telling Devices in the Early Islamic World --; On Timekeeping by the Lunar Mansions in Medieval Egypt --; Music in the Iconography of Venus’ Children --; Chronotypic Variation among Early and Middle Neolithic Societes in Poland --; Ethnographic Correlates of One Type of Soli-lunar Alignment: The Doubling of Winter Solstice Sunset with the Southern (Minor or Major) Standstill Moonsets --; The Calendar of Coligny and Related Calendars --; The Medieval Liturgical Calendar, Sacred Space, and the Orientations of Churches --; The Finnish Wooden Calendars and Some Aspects of Folk Knowledge in the Middle Ages --; The Observation of Celestial Bodies and Time Counting in the Lithuanian Folk Culture --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Unpublished sources
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463222529; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463222529
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Arkadiusz Soltysiak.

The volume contains 12 papers presented at the conference "Time and Astronomy in Past Cultures" (Toruń, Poland 2005). Five of them concern Near Eastern calendars and sky-watching, three are devoted to European archaeoastronomy (including a paper on Stonehenge), and two represent ethnoarchaeological research in the Baltic area.