Blackburn, Bonnie, and Leofranc Holford-Stevens. The Oxford Companion to the Year: An Exploration of Calendar Customs and Time-Reckoning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Blomberg, Mary, Peter Blomberg, and Gцran Henriksson, eds. Calendars, Symbols and Orientations: Legacies of Astronomy in Culture. Uppsala: Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, 2003. [A collection of papers from the SEAC (European Society for Astronomy in Culture) meeting held in Stockholm in 2001. Contains articles in English and French.]
Blot, Jacques. Montaсa y Prehistoria Vasca. Donostia [San Sebastiбn], Spain: Elkar. [A nicely illustrated overview of prehistory in the Basque country, including descriptions of the principal monuments. In Spanish.]
Boccas, Maxime, Johanna Broda, and Gonzalo Pereira, eds. Etno- y Arqueoastronomнa en las Amйricas. Santiago, Chile: Congreso Internacional Americanista, 2004. [A collection of papers from a session at the International Congress of Americanists in Chile in 2003. In Spanish.]
Bol, Marsha C., ed. Stars Above, Earth Below: American Indians and Nature. Niwot, CO: Roberts Rinehart/Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1998. [Includes an overview of American Indian astronomy.]
Boone, Elizabeth H. The Aztec Templo Mayor. Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1987. [A collection of scholarly papers from a 1983 symposium, including a number focusing on ritual and cosmology.]
Bradley, Richard. Altering the Earth. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1993. [A series of lectures by a leading British archaeologist concerning European later prehistoric monuments and their interpretation, and including relationships to the sky.]
———. Rock Art and the Prehistory of Atlantic Europe: Signing the Land. London: Routledge, 1997. [An interpretation of the perceived meaning and purpose of prehistoric rock carvings in relation to their landscape setting.]
———. The Significance of Monuments: On the Shaping of Human Experience in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe. London: Routledge, 1998. [A set of linked essays developing ideas concerning the development of tombs and ceremonial monuments in northwest Europe during the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, the latter part focusing on a discussion of the ubiquitous circular form.]
———. An Archaeology of Natural Places. London: Routledge, 2000. [An exploration by a leading British prehistorian of the significance to the people in the past of natural, unaltered places in the landscape.]
———. The Good Stones: A New Investigation of the Clava Cairns. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (Monograph Series 17), 2000. [An archaeological investigation of the Clava cairns, providing an essential background to discussions of their possible astronomical significance.]
Brandt, John C., and Robert D. Chapman. Introduction to Comets, 1–54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. [The first part of this book is an account of historical perceptions and sightings of comets.]
Brennan, Martin. The Stones of Time: Calendars, Sundials and Stone Chambers of Ancient Ireland. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1994. (Originally published in 1983 as The Stars and the Stones: Ancient Art and Astronomy in
Ireland by Thames and Hudson, London.) [Identifies numerous astronomical associations in Irish monuments and megalithic art, but has drawn severe scholarly criticism for being methodologically uncritical.]
Briard, Jacques, Maurine Gautier, and Gilles Leroux. Les Mйgalithes de Saint-Just. Luзon, France: Йditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, 1993. [Colorful and helpful short guide to monuments in the St. Just area of Brittany. In French.]
Broda, Johanna, Davнd Carrasco, and Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. The Great Temple of Tenochtitlan: Center and Periphery in the Aztec World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. [An excellent analysis of the Aztec Templo Mayor examined from three different scholarly perspectives.]
Broda, Johanna, Stanis√aw Iwaniszewski, and Lucretia Maupomй, eds. Arqueoastronomнa y Etnoastronomнa en Mesoamйrica. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autуnoma de Mйxico, 1991. [An extensive collection of papers covering both Meso- and North America, from a conference held in Mexico in 1989. Contains articles in Spanish and English.]
Broda, Johanna, Stanis√aw Iwaniszewski, and Arturo Montero, eds. La Montaсa en el Paisaje Ritual. Mexico City: CONACULTA/INAH, 2001. [A general collection of papers on mountains and sacred geography, largely concentrated in the Basin of Mexico, including some articles that focus upon connections with calendrics and astronomy. In Spanish.]
Brown, Dayle L. Skylore from Planet Earth: Stories from Around the World . . . Orion. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2004. [A collection for children of illustrated stories from around the world concerning the constellation that we call Orion. Supplemented with parent/teacher notes.]
Brunod, Giuseppe, Walter Ferreri, and Gaudenzio Ragazzi. La Rosa di Sellero e la Svastica: Cosmologia, Astronomia, Danze Preistoriche. Savigliano, Italy: I Quaderni di «Natura Nostra», 1999. [Highly speculative and methodologically questionable interpretations of Italian rock art. In Italian.]
Buck, Peter H. [Te Rangi Hiroa]. Ethnology of Mangareva. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1938.
Burl, Aubrey. The Stone Circles of the British Isles. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. [A detailed but highly readable account of British and Irish stone circles, aimed at a mixed audience, and including a comprehensive gazetteer. Achieved remarkable sales in the 1970s and 1980s. Now superseded by Burl 2000.]
———. Prehistoric Avebury. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. [Eminently readable but now superseded by more recent accounts.]
———. Rings of Stone: The Prehistoric Stone Circles of Britain and Ireland. London: Frances Lincoln, 1979. [Popular but now dated account of British stone circles including some discussion of orientation and astronomy. Includes the only reasonably detailed account of an excavation at Berrybrae recumbent stone circle, where scatters of white quartz fragments found near the recumbent stone reinforce the idea of a lunar significance.]
———. Rites of the Gods. London: Dent, 1981. [Popular account of ritual and religion in later prehistoric Britain, including some discussion of monumental orientation and astronomy. Now rather dated.]
———. Prehistoric Astronomy and Ritual. Princes Risborough, UK: Shire, 1983. [A short and easy-to-read introduction to British “megalithic astronomy,” now somewhat dated.]
———. Megalithic Brittany. London: Thames and Hudson, 1985. [By far the best guidebook available in the English language.]
———. Four-Posters: Bronze Age Stone Circles of Western Europe. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (BAR British Series 195), 1988. [Gazetteer containing detailed data of a distinctive type of British megalithic monument identified as such by Burl himself. Also includes possible examples in Ireland and Brittany.]
———. From Carnac to Callanish: The Prehistoric Stone Rows and Avenues of Britain, Ireland and Brittany. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. [The “stone rows” equivalent of Burl’s highly successful The Stone Circles of the British Isles (see Burl 1976).]