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Archaeoastronomy - Introduction to the Science of Stars and Stones (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2020)
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Archaeoastronomy - Introduction to the Science of Stars and Stones (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2020)
Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
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This is a second edition of a textbook that provides the first
comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the
fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the
relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied
in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the
architects of the past and of their religious and symbolic worlds.
The book is divided into three sections, the first of which
explores the past relations between astronomy and people, power,
the afterworld, architecture, and landscape. The second part then
discusses in detail the fundamentals of archaeoastronomy, including
the celestial coordinates; the apparent motion of the sun, moon,
stars, and planets; observation of celestial bodies at the horizon;
the use of astronomical software in archaeoastronomy; and current
methods for making and analyzing measurements. The final section
reviews what archaeoastronomy can now tell us about the nature and
purpose of such sites and structures as Stonehenge, the Pyramids of
Giza, Chichen Itza, the Angkor Temples, the Campus Martius, and the
Valley of the Temples of Agrigento. In addition, it provides a set
of exercises that can be performed using non-commercial free
software, e.g., Google Earth and Stellarium, and that will equip
readers to conduct their own research. This new edition features a
completely new chapter on archaeoastronomy in Asia and an
"augmented reality" framework, which on the one hand enhances the
didactic value of the book using direct links to the relevant
sections of the author's MOOC (online) lessons and, on the other,
allows readers to directly experience - albeit virtually -many of
the spectacular archaeological sites described in the book. This is
an ideal introduction to what has become a wide-ranging
multidisciplinary science.
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