Skyscapes : the role and importance of the sky in archaeology / / edited by Fabio Silva and Nicholas Campion ; contributors, Bernadeth Brady [and ten others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807880903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : Oxbow Books, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-78297-841-0; 1-78297-843-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 p.)
• Disciplina: 523.1
• Soggetti: Archaeoastronomy; Landscape archaeology; Sky - Social aspects - History; Cosmology - History; Astrology - History; Sacred space - History; Prehistoric peoples; Social archaeology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface: Meaning and Intent in Ancient Skyscapes - An Andean Perspective; Chapter 1: The Role and Importance of the Skyin Archaeology: An Introduction; Chapter 2: Skyscapes: Locating Archaeoastronomy within Academia; Chapter 3: An Examination of the Divide Between Archaeoastronomy and Archaeology; Chapter 4: Skyscapes: Present and Past - From Sustainability to Interpreting Ancient Remains; Chapter 5: 30b - the West Kennet Avenue Stone that Never Was: Interpretation by Multidisciplinary Triangulation and Emergence through Four Field AnthropologyChapter 6: Can Archaeoastronomy Inform Archaeology on the Building Chronology of the Mnajdra ; Neolithic Temple in Malta?; Chapter 7: Star phases: the Naked-eye Astronomy of the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts; Chapter 8: An Architectural Perspective on Structured Sacred Space - Recent Evidence from Iron Age Ireland; Chapter 9: The Circumpolar Skyscape of a Pembrokeshire Dolmen; Chapter 10: The View from Within: a 'Time-Space-Action' Approach to Megalithism in Central PortugalChapter 11: Afterword: Dances Beneath a Diamond Sky
• Sommario/riassunto: Eleven papers extend discussion of the role and importance of the landscape and the wider environment to past societies, and to the understanding and interpretation of their material remains, into consideration of the significance of the celestial environment: the skyscape. The role of the sky for past societies has been relegated to the fringes of archaeological discourse. Nevertheless archaeoastronomy has developed a new rigour in the last few decades and the evidence suggests that it can provide insights into the beliefs, practices and cosmologies of past societies. Skyscapes explores the c