Calendars, Symbols and Orientations: Legacies of Astronomy in Culture. Proceedings of the 9th annual meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in ... (Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Report, 59)

This, the proceedings of the 9th annual meeting of SEAC held in Stockholm in 2001, contains twenty-four papers on subjects ranging from Swedish calendar staffs to Ramesside star clocks, and from a possible 32,000-year old calendrical artefact in Germany to folk calendars in twentieth-century Lithuania and Bulgaria. The volume is divided into five main sections: archaeoastronomical theory; calendars in artefacts, folklore and literature; history and iconography of the constellations; astronomy in art, mythology, and literature; and orientations and their interpretations. Even the familiar topic of orientations receives an unusually wide geographical coverage, including megalithic monuments in the Netherlands, Siberia, and Algeria, a Minoan peak sanctuary, and the layout of ancient Carthage.