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Reinhard, Johan. The Nazca Lines: A New Perspective on their Origin and Meaning (4th ed.). Lima: Editorial Los Pinos, 1988. [A classic work relating possible interpretations of the Nasca lines to historical and modern practices of mountain worship and to horizon astronomical observations.]
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Renfrew, Colin. Before Civilization. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976. [This paperback, aimed at a general audience, included one of the very few efforts by any archaeologist in the early 1970s to seriously examine some of the implications of early ideas in “megalithic astronomy” and integrate them into a broader framework of interpretation.]
———, ed. The Prehistory of Orkney (repr.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990. [A collection of papers providing an overview covering the first settlers through to the Viking period. First published in 1985.]
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Renfrew, Colin, and Ezra Zubrow, eds. The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. [A key work in the development of cognitive archaeology: a collection of papers on prehistoric beliefs and thought.]
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———. English Heritage Book of Stonehenge. London: English Heritage/Batsford, 1991. [Authoritative general introduction to Stonehenge and its landscape.]
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Romano, Giuliano. Archeoastronomia Italiana. Padova, Italy: Cleup, 1992. [In Italian.]
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS). Argylclass="underline" An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 1: Kintyre. Edinburgh: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1971. [Inventory of monuments including Ballochroy.]
———. Argylclass="underline" An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll and Northern Argyll. Edinburgh: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1980. [Inventory of monuments including the stone rows of northern Mull, which have been closely studied archaeoastronomically.]
———. Argylclass="underline" An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments, Volume 6: Mid Argyll and Cowal, Prehistoric and Early Historic Monuments. Edinburgh: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1988. [Inventory of monuments including Kintraw.]
Ruggles, Clive. Megalithic Astronomy: A New Archaeological and Statistical Study of 300 Western Scottish Sites. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (British Series 123), 1984. [A detailed reassessment of Thom’s theories that helped to reconcile archaeologists and astronomers in the 1980s.]
———. Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. [A comprehensive discussion and critical review of ideas concerning the possible astronomical significance of various prehistoric monuments in Britain and Ireland. It also tackles a number of broader issues. Written for a cross-disciplinary audience, the book contains a number of boxes that explain basic astronomical and statistical concepts as well as an appendix on fieldwork techniques.]
———, ed. Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s. Loughborough: Group D Publications, 1993. [A collection of papers from the third “Oxford” international symposium on archaeoastronomy held in Scotland in 1990.]
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Ruggles, Clive, and Nicholas Saunders, eds. Astronomies and Cultures. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1993. [A collection of papers selected from the third “Oxford” international symposium on archaeoastronomy held in Scotland in 1990. They cover theory, method, and practice, providing a good insight into the scope of archaeoastronomy as well as some of the main issues of contention.]