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Calendars

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 US$50.00

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. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Publisher's Price US$60.00, Our Price US$48.00

Archäologischer Kalender 2012

(Philipp von Zabern 2011)
Spiralbound. Price US$8.50

Archäologischer Kalender 2013

Calendar 28p (Philipp von Zabern 2012)
Secondhand. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$30.00

Archäologischer Kalender 2013

Calendar 28p (Philip von Zabern 2012)
Spiralbound. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price US$30.00

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 US$65.00

Calendar Of The Patent Rolls: Elizabeth I Vol 8
by Margaret Post
Preserved in the Public Record Office.1578-1580The series of Patent Rolls of the Chancery England extends from the third year of the reign of King John and, as a register of instruments issued under sovereign's Great Seal, has been maintained down to ...
Hardback. Price US$14.98