Le Cam, Gabriel. Le Guide des Mйgalithes du Morbihan. Spйzet, France: Coop Breizh, 1999. [Comprehensive pictorial guide to megaliths in the Carnac area. In French.]
Le Contel, Jean-Michel, and Paul Verdier. Un Calendrier Celtique: Le Calendrier Gaulois de Coligny. Paris: Йditions Errance, 1997. [A short description with photographs, accompanied by speculations that reach far beyond the evidence, e.g., about its use for calculating precession. In French.]
Lebeuf, Arnold. Les Eclipses dans l’Ancien Mexique. Krakуw: Jagiellonian University Press, 2003. [In French.]
Lebeuf, Arnold, and Mariusz Ziу√kowski, eds. Actes de la Vиme Confйrence Annuelle de la SEAC. Warsaw: University of Warsaw and Gda∞sk: Central Maritime Museum, 1999. [Contains articles in English, German, and French.]
Lee, Georgia. An Uncommon Guide to Easter Island. Arroyo Grande, CA: International Resources, 1990. [A colorful and very useful little guidebook.]
Lee, Georgia, and Edward Stasack. Spirit of Place: Petroglyphs of Hawai‘i. Los Osos, CA: Easter Island Foundation, 1999. [Documents several important petroglyph sites on the Big Island of Hawai‘i.]
Legesse, Asmerom. Gada: Three Approaches to the Study of African Society. New York: Macmillan, 1973. [A social anthropological study containing the original account of the Borana calendar that led to a string of subsequent misunderstandings.]
Lekson, Stephen H. Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. [A detailed survey and synthesis including descriptions and plans of several Great Houses.]
———. The Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1999. [A controversial but seriously challenging theory.]
Lekson, Stephen H., John R. Stein, and Simon J. Ortiz. Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Lewis, David. We the Navigators (2nd ed). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 1994. [An account of Pacific navigation by a leading voyager who has not only researched and attempted to reconstruct indigenous Polynesian and Micronesian techniques of navigation but has also endeavored to put some of them into practice.]
Liller, William. The Ancient Solar Observatories of Rapanui: The Archaeoastronomy of Easter Island. Old Bridge, NJ: Cloud Mountain Press, 1993.
Littarru, Paolo, and Mauro Peppino Zedda. Santu Antine: Guida Archeoastronomica al Nuraghe Santu Antine di Torralba. Cagliari, Italy: Associazione Culturale Agora’ Nuragica, 2003. [Archaeoastronomical ideas relating to one of the most impressive of the Sardinian nuraghi. In Italian.]
Littmann, Mark, Ken Willcox, and Fred Espenak. Totality—Eclipses of the Sun (2nd ed.), 1–53. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. [The first part of the book explores cultural perceptions of, and reactions to, solar eclipses.]
Lockyer, Norman. The Dawn of Astronomy. London: Cassell, 1894. [Classic early work on astronomical alignments of Egyptian temples.]
———. Stonehenge and Other British Stone Monuments Astronomically Considered (2nd ed.). London: MacMillan, 1909. [A key work in the early historical development of British “megalithic astronomy.” First published in 1906.]
Lucas, Gavin. The Archaeology of Time. New York: Routledge, 2005. [An exploration of what we can deduce about concepts of time from archaeological evidence.]
MacCana, Proinsias. Celtic Mythology. London: Hamlyn, 1970.
MacDonald, John. The Arctic Sky: Inuit Astronomy, Star Lore and Legend. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum and Iqaluit: Nunavut Research Institute, 1998. [The only detailed study available of sky knowledge in this important culture area.]
MacDonald, William L. The Pantheon: Design, Meaning and Progeny. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976.
MacKie, Euan. The Megalith Builders. Oxford: Phaidon, 1977. [Broad background including reference to Alexander Thom’s theories.]
———. Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain. London: Paul Elek, 1977. [Controversial interpretation of Alexander Thom’s theories. MacKie was one of the very few archaeologists of his time who attempted to frame a social context for Thom’s ideas, but he faced a barrage of criticism from his colleagues.]
Magini, Leonardo. Astronomy and Calendar in Ancient Rome: The Eclipse Festivals. Rome: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 2001. [Challenging new theories about the Roman calendar and its roots.]
Magli, Giulio. Misteri e Scoperte dell’Archeoastronomia. Rome, Italy: Newton & Compton Editori, 2005. [A survey of world archaeoastronomy by a physicist. In Italian.]
Mainfort, Robert, and Lynne Sullivan, eds. Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. [A collection of papers documenting recent research on the earthwork enclosures of the eastern United States.]
Makemson, Maud. The Morning Star Rises: An Account of Polynesian Astronomy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941. [Classic early work on Polynesian astronomy by an astronomer.]
Malmstrцm, Vincent H. Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon: The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. [Argues that the Mayan tzolkin (260-day calendar round) derived from horizon calendars established as early as the second millennium B.C.E. Although many arguments remain about the detailed evidence, the general idea is not as highly controversial as it was when first presented in the 1970s.]
Malo, David. Hawaiian Antiquities (Mo‘olelo Hawai‘i) (2nd ed.). Honolulu: Bishop Museum Press, 1951. [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 centuries.]
Malone, Caroline. Avebury. London: Batsford/English Heritage, 1994. [A good general introduction to the site, but now superseded by accounts drawing upon more recent excavations.]
Maltwood, Katherine. A Guide to Glastonbury’s Temple of the Stars. London: James Clarke, 1964. Originally published in 1929. [A classic of “fringe” literature, presenting an idea that does not withstand scholarly critique yet achieved a great deal of popular attention.]
Malville, J. McKim, and Gary Matlock, eds. The Chimney Rock Archaeological Symposium. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture (Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, General Technical Report RM-227), 1993. [A collection of symposium papers including some archaeoastronomical theories.]
Malville, J. McKim, and Claudia Putnam. Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest. Boulder, CO: Johnson Books, 1989. [A useful overview of archaeoastronomical theories relating to the U.S. Southwest in the 1980s.]
Manzanilla, Linda, and Leonardo Lуpez Lujбn, eds. Atlas Histуrico de Mesoamйrica. Mexico City: Ediciones Larousse (2nd ed.), 2003. [A concise history of Mesoamerican cultures organized as a series of short articles. Good for reference, although it omits discoveries since first published in 1993. In Spanish.]
Maravelia, Amanda-Alice, ed. Ad Astra per Aspera et per Ludum: European Archaeoastronomy and the Orientation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin. Oxford: Archaeopress (BAR International Series, 1154), 2003. [A collection of papers presented at an archaeoastronomy session at the European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting at Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2002.]