Dublin, Ireland, 1998 (see Ruggles, Prendergast, and Ray 2001).
La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), 1999 (see Esteban and Belmonte 2000; a number of keynote papers were published separately in vol. 15 of Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture).
Moscow, Russia, 2000 (see Potyomkina and Obridko 2002).
Stockholm, Sweden, 2001 (see Blomberg, Blomberg, and Henriksson 2003).
Tartu, Estonia, 2002 (see Kхiva, Mьrk, and Pustхlnik in press). Leicester, England, 2003 (will be published jointly with the 2004 conference). Kecskemйt, Hungary, 2004 (as yet unpublished). Isili, Sardinia (Italy), 2005 (as yet unpublished).
General Bibliography
Aaboe, Asger. Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy. New York: Springer, 2001.
Aitken, Michael. Science-Based Dating in Archaeology. London: Longman, 1990. [An introduction to archaeological dating methods aimed at students in archaeological science.]
Еkerblom, Kjell. Astronomy and Navigation in Polynesia and Micronesia. Stockholm: Stockholm Ethnographical Museum, 1968.
Allen, Richard H. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning. New York: Dover, 1963. (First published 1899.) [Compendium of star-name information from all over the globe. Of historical interest but also still useful.]
Altuna, Jesъs, Angel Armendariz, Luis del Barrio, Francisco Etxeberria, Koro Mariezkurrena, Xavier Peсalver, and Franciscop Zumalabe. Gipuzkoa Karta Arkeologikoa: I. Megalitoak. Donostia [San Sebastiбn], Spain: MUNIBE, 1990. [Comprehensive set of maps, plans, and descriptions of megalithic monuments in the Gipuzkoa region of the Basque country. In Basque and Spanish.]
Antequera, Luz, Antonio Aparicio, Juan A. Belmonte, Josй R. Belmonte, Cйsar Estйban, Michael Hoskin, and Amador Rebullida. Arqueoastronomнa Hispana. Madrid: Equipo Sirius, 1994. [A survey of archaeoastronomy in various regions of Spain. In Spanish.]
Armit, Ian. The Archaeology of Skye and the Western Isles. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1996. [A good archaeological background on the Isle of Skye and the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.]
Ascher, Marcia, and Robert Ascher. Code of the Quipu. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981. [An early classic in the study of the knotted-string devices used by the Incas.]
Ashmore, Patrick. Calanais: The Standing Stones. Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland: Urras nan Tursachan, 1995. [A short introduction to the standing stones of Calanais/Callanish, including mention of astronomy, with nice illustrations.]
———. Neolithic and Bronze Age Scotland. London: Batsford/Historic Scotland, 1996. [An authoritative but accessible account organized around the best dating evidence available at the time of writing. It is divided into 500-year chunks running from 4000 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E., plus a final 250-year chunk at the threshold of the Iron Age.]
Ashmore, Wendy, and Bernard Knapp, eds. Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. [A wide-ranging collection of papers exploring cultural perceptions of landscape through archaeological, historical, and ethnographic evidence.]
Atkinson, Richard J. C. Stonehenge. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979. [This was the final reprint of Atkinson’s popular account of his excavations at Stonehenge, first published in 1956, which influenced all the astronomical interpretations in the 1960s. The full account of Atkinson’s excavation was eventually published within Cleal et al. 1995.]
Aveni, Anthony F. Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks and Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1989. [An excellent thematic overview.]
———. Conversing with the Planets. New York: Times Books, 1992. [A wide-ranging account of mythology, astronomy, and astrology relating to the planets for a general audience.]
———. Ancient Astronomers. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 1993. [A broad range of examples, richly illustrated.]
———. Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures. New York: Wiley, 1997. [An introductory text contrasting three case studies—British megaliths, ancient Maya astronomy, and the Venus cult—and astronomy in the Inca empire. In doing so it introduces a number of key issues and themes. It also contains a useful initial chapter on terms and concepts and an appendix on fieldwork techniques. The “megalithic” chapter contains much that has now been superseded.]
———. Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. (Published in the UK as Nasca: The Eighth Wonder of the World. London: British Museum Press, 2000.) [An account of recent work at Nasca directed at a general audience.]
———. Skywatchers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. [A comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy, with briefer sections dealing with other parts of the Americas and elsewhere. Extensively revised version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico, published in 1980.]
———. The Book of the Year: A Brief History of Our Seasonal Holidays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
———, ed. Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975. [A collection of papers deriving from an early conference on archaeoastronomy in the Americas.]
———, ed. Native American Astronomy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. [A collection of papers deriving from an early conference on archaeoastronomy in the Americas.]
———, ed. Archaeoastronomy in the New World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. [A collection of “new world” papers from the first “Oxford” international symposium on archaeoastronomy held in England in 1981.]
———, ed. World Archaeoastronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. [A collection of papers from the second “Oxford” international symposium on archaeoastronomy held in Mexico in 1986.]
———, ed. The Lines of Nazca. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990. [A collection of academic papers deriving from the fieldwork of Aveni et al. at Nasca in the early 1980s.]
———, ed. The Sky in Mayan Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. [A collection of papers from a workshop held in New York in 1989.]
Aveni, Anthony F., and Gordon Brotherston, eds. Calendars in Mesoamerica and Peru: Native American Computations of Time. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (International Series 174), 1983. [A collection of papers from a conference held in Manchester, England, in 1982.]
Aveni, Anthony F., and Horst Hartung. Maya City Planning and the Calendar. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society (Transactions, vol. 76, part 7), 1986.
Aveni, Anthony F., and Gary Urton, eds. Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1982. [A collection of papers arising from a conference held in New York in 1981.]
Bahn, Paul, ed. The Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Bailey, Mark, Victor Clube, and Bill Napier. The Origin of Comets. London: Pergamon Press, 1990. [Astronomers argue that the earth has had periodic encounters with large comets.]
Baillie, Mike. From Exodus to Arthur: Catastrophic Encounters with Comets. London: Batsford, 1999. [A leading dendrochronologist argues that cometary encounters may explain “cold summers” evident from tree-ring evidence.]