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Johnson, Dianne. Night Skies of Aboriginal Australia: A Noctuary. Sydney: Oceania Publications/University of Sydney, 1998.
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Johnson, Rubellite K. Kumulipo: Hawaiian Hymn of Creation. Vol. I. Honolulu: Topgallant Press, 1981. [An alternative translation and commentary to the classic version of Martha Beckwith.]
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Jones, Donald W. Peak Sanctuaries and Sacred Caves in Minoan Crete: A Comparison of Artifacts. Jonsered, Sweden: Paul Еstrцms Fцrlag, 1999.
Kaeppler, Adrienne L., and H. Arlo Nimmo, eds. Directions in Pacific Traditional Literature: Essays in Honor of Katharine Luomala. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1976.
Kak, Subhash. The Astronomical Code of the єgveda. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan, 1994.
Kamakau, Samuel M. The Works of the People of Old. Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1976. [One of a small number of vital accounts of native Hawaiian religious beliefs and practices as recalled and recorded in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.]
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Kelley, David H. Astronomical Identities of Mesoamerican Gods. Miami: Institute of Maya Studies (Contributions to Mesoamerican Anthropology), 1980.
Kelley, David H., and Eugene F. Milone. Exploring Ancient Skies: An Encyclopedic Survey of Archaeoastronomy. New York: Springer, 2004.
Kelley, Klara Bonsack, and Harris Francis. Navajo Sacred Places. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. [An ethnographic study seeking to identify culturally important places and to identify ways of protecting them.]
Kelly, Joyce. An Archaeological Guide to Northern Central America: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. [A very useful and relatively compact guidebook by a freelance writer.]
Keys, David. Catastrophe. London: Century Books, 1999. [An archaeological journalist explores climatic catastrophes that might be attributable to meteoric impacts.]
Kidger, Mark. The Star of Bethlehem: An Astronomer’s View. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. [Conventional discussion in terms of events in the sky that might have been conspicuous at the time.]
King, John. The Celtic Druids’ Year: Seasonal Cycles of the Ancient Celts. London: Blandford, 1994. [A reconstruction of the Druidic seasonal calendar by a modern bard.]
Kirch, Patrick V. Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1985.
———. Legacy of the Landscape: An Illustrated Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological Sites. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1996. [An excellent guidebook.]
———. On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Polynesian Islands before European Contact. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. [An authoritative and eminently readable broad overview of Pacific archaeology.]
Kirch, Patrick V., and Roger C. Green. Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [Includes an analysis of sacred seasonal and calendrical rituals in an attempt to identify common ancestral practices.]
Knight, Chris. Blood Relations. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. [A controversial interpretation of Palaeolithic rites and practices relating to the moon.]
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Kowalski, Jeff Karl. The House of the Governor: A Maya Palace of Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
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———. Skywatchers, Shamans and Kings. New York: Wiley, 1997. [Broad-ranging popular introduction to some themes in archaeoastronomy.]
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Lancaster Brown, Peter. Megaliths, Myths and Men. Poole: Blandford Press, 1976. [Describes “megalithic astronomy,” and in particular the theories of Hawkins and Thom, for a general audience. Of historical interest only.]
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Lattimore, Richmond, trans. Hesiod. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1959.
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