Hawkins, Gerald. Beyond Stonehenge. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. [More on Stonehenge and a wider set of examples, written in a journalistic style for a popular audience.]
Heggie, Douglas. Megalithic Science: Ancient Mathematics and Astronomy in Northwest Europe. London: Thames and Hudson, 1981. [A landmark as the first serious critique of the “megalithic astronomy” of Gerald Hawkins and Alexander Thom by an astronomer as opposed to an archaeologist.]
———, ed. Archaeoastronomy in the Old World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. [A collection of “old world” papers from the first “Oxford” international symposium on archaeoastronomy held in England in 1981.]
Heilbron, John. The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. [An intriguing exploration by a highly respected historian of science of the use of medieval churches and cathedrals as solar observatories.]
Hetherington, Norriss S. Ancient Astronomy and Civilization. Tucson, AZ: Pachart, 1987. [An overview from the perspective of a historian of science.]
———. Science and Objectivity: Episodes in the History of Astronomy. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988.
Higham, Charles. The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia: From 10,000 BC to the Fall of Angkor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Hill, J. D. Ritual and Rubbish in the Iron Age of Wessex. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum (BAR International Series 602), 1995.
Hochseider, Peter, and Doris Knцsel. Les Taules de Menorca: Un Estudi Arqueoastronтmic. Maу [Mahуn], Menorca: Govern Balear, 1995. [An invaluable set of surveyed plans of Menorcan taulas accompanied by questionable interpretations. In Catalan.]
Hodder, Ian. Symbols in Action: Ethnoarchaeological Studies of Material Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. [Key ideas that strongly influenced the development of interpretative archaeology in the 1980s and beyond.]
Hodder, Ian, and Scott Hutson. Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. [A thought-provoking exploration of different approaches to the interpretation of archaeological evidence. The first edition, by Hodder alone, appeared in 1986.]
Hodson, F. R., ed. The Place of Astronomy in the Ancient World. London: Royal Society, 1976. [A classic collection of papers on astronomy in both pre-literate and literate societies.]
Hoskin, Michael. Tombs, Temples and Their Orientations. Bognor Regis: Ocarina Books, England, 2001. [A synthesis of many years’ fieldwork in southern Europe that presents and analyzes orientation data from some three thousand later prehistoric tombs and temples, mainly in the western Mediterranean.]
———, ed. Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. [Broad and richly illustrated introductory text for students in the history of science.]
———, ed. The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. [Essentially the same as the Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy but produced in a more basic format without the high-quality illustrations.]
Hoskin, Michael, and William Waldren. Taulas and Talayots. Cambridge: Michael Hoskin, 1988. [A very useful little guidebook to these monuments on the island of Menorca.]
Hostnig, Rainer. Arte Rupestre del Perъ: Inventario Nacional. Lima: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologнa, 2003. [Inventory of rock art in Peru. In Spanish.]
Hoyle, Fred. From Stonehenge to Modern Cosmology. San Francisco: Freeman, 1972. [The first half of the book describes the author’s controversial and strongly criticized theories about Stonehenge.]
Hudson, Travis, and Ernest Underhay. Crystals in the Sky: An Intellectual Odyssey Involving Chumash Astronomy, Cosmology, and Rock Art. Socorro, NM: Ballena Press, 1978.
Hugh-Jones, Stephen. The Palm and the Pleiades: Initiation and Cosmology in Northwest Amazonia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. [This in-depth ethnographic study of the Barasana includes evidence for the timing of certain activities in relation to the movement of constellations.]
Hunger, Hermann, and David Pingree. Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia. Boston and Leiden: Brill, 1999.
Hunter, John, and Ian Ralston, eds. The Archaeology of Britain. London: Routledge, 1999. [Comprehensive introductory textbook for archaeology students.]
Hutton, Ron. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
———. The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Ingold, Tim. The Perception of the Environment: Essays in Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. New York and London: Routledge, 2000. [A key work from a leading social anthropologist exploring the ways in which people perceive the world they inhabit.]
———. Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology (rev. ed.). New York: Routledge, 2002. [A collection of substantial articles addressing key themes in social/cultural anthropology.]
Insoll, Timothy. Archaeology, Ritual and Religion. New York: Routledge, 2004. [Explores the question of what we can deduce about ancient religions from archaeological evidence.]
Iwaniszewski, Stanis√aw, ed. Readings in Archaeoastronomy. Warsaw: State Archaeological Museum and Warsaw University, 1992. [A collection of papers from a European archaeoastronomy meeting held in Warsaw in 1990. Contains articles in English and French.]
Iwaniszewski, Stanis√aw, Arnold Lebeuf, Andrzej Wierci∞ski, and Mariusz Ziу√kowski, eds. Time and Astronomy at the Meeting of Two Worlds. Warsaw: Centrum Studiуw Latynoameryka∞skich, 1994. [A collection of papers from a conference held in Poland in 1992, focusing on Mesoamerican and Andean archaeoastronomy and medieval astronomy in Europe. Contains articles in English and Spanish.]
James, Simon. The Atlantic Celts: Ancient People or Modern Invention? Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. [Anyone contemplating aspects of Celtic ritual or the Celtic calendar should first seriously consider this book, which challenges the whole notion of Celts.]
James, Van. Ancient Sites of O‘ahu. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1991. [A useful general guide to the archaeological sites on O‘ahu. For this island there also exists the older but more extensive gazetteer written by Sterling and Summers and published in 1978.]
———. Ancient Sites of Hawai‘i. Honolulu: Mutual Publishing, 1995. [A useful general guide to the archaeological sites on the Big Island of Hawai‘i. For this island there also exists the older gazetteer of temple sites written by Stokes in 1919 (although unpublished until 1991) and the description of petroglyph sites by Lee and Stasack published in 1999.]
Jaschek, Carlos. Les Hommes regardent le Ciel. Strasbourg: Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, 1998. [Introduction to archaeoastronomy focusing on the different celestial bodies and methods for their naked-eye observation. In French.]
———, ed. Reunion Europйenne d’Astronomie et Sciences Humaines: European Meeting on Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. Strasbourg: Observatoire Astronomique, 1992. [A collection of papers from a European archaeoastronomy meeting. Contains articles in French and English.]