Book ID: CBB000029535

Records in stone: Papers in memory of Thom, Alexander (1988)

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Ruggles, C. L. N. (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: xvii + 519 pp.; illus.; bibl.

Description Contents: Thom, Archie: A personal note about my late father, Thom, Alexander. Motz, Hans: A personal appreciation of Thom, Alexander. Thom, Archie: The career and publications of Thom, Alexander. Ferguson, Lesley: A catalogue of the Thom, Alexander archive held in the National Momuments Record of Scotland. Thom, Alexander, Thom, Archie: The metrology and geometry of Megalithic Man. Jennings, Chris: Megalithic landscapes. Burl, Aubrey: “Without sharp north...”: Thom, Alexander and the great stone circles of Cumbria. MacKie, Euan: Investigating the prehistoric solar calendar. Ruggles, C.L.N.: The stone alignments of Argyll and Mull: A perspective on the statistical approach in archaeoastronomy. Patrick, Jon, Freeman, Peter: A cluster analysis of astronomical orientations. Norris, Ray: Megalithic observatories in Britain: Real or imagined? Myatt, Leslie J.: The stone rows of northern Scotland. Giot, Pierre-Roland: Stones in the landscape of Brittany. David Fraser: The orientation of visibility from the chambered cairns of Eday, Orkney. Graham Ritchie: The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney. Curtis, Ronald: The geometry of some maglithic rings. Cowan, Thaddeus: Megalithic compound ring geometry. Alan Davis: The metrology of cup-and-ring carvings. Ponting, Margaret: Megalithic Callanish. Aveni, Anthony F.: The Thom paradigm in the Americas: The case of the cross-circle designs. Krupp, E.C.: Light in the temples.


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Thom, Alexander
Erling Haagensen
Gilmore, Gerard
Tausch-Pebody, Gudrun
Szapiro, Aníbal
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