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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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of Celestial Bodies and Time Counting in the Lithuanian Folk Culture -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Unpublished sources