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Calendars and Years: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient Near East
edited by John M Steele
Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new moon crescent that defined the beginning of the month in many calendars, while others incorporated schematic simplifications of these phenomena, such as the 360-day year ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00
Living the Lunar Calendar
by John M. Steele, Jonathan Ben-Dov, Wayne Horowitz
Lunar calendars suffer from an inherent uncertainty in the length of each month and the number of months in the year. Variable atmospheric conditions, weather and the acuity of the eye of an observer mean that the first sighting of the new moon crescent can never be known in advance. Calendars which rely on such observations to define the beginning of a new month therefore suffer from this lack of certainty as to whether a month will begin on a ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £32.00, Our Price GB £22.50
On the structure and terminology of the Gaulish calender
by Adolfo Zavaroni
The so-called Coligny Calendar was discovered in November 1897 by a Monsieur Roux in a field north of Coligny (Ain, France). He came across the fragments of a buried statue of a young male deity and, with it, the broken-up remains of what had once been a ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.00
Archaologischer Kalendar 2006
Price GB £15.00
Archaologischer Kalendar 2007
Paperback. Price GB £15.00
Archaologischer Kalender 2009
Price GB £18.00
Archaologischer Kalender 2011
Price GB £19.00
Archaologischer Kalender 2012
Price GB £20.00
Denkmal und Landschaft Agypten 2005
Lembke, Katja
Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £13.99
Zaberns Archaologischer Kalendar 2005
Paperback. Price GB £12.99
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