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Contents
Clive Ruggles and the Development of Cultural Astronomy . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Efrosyni Boutsikas, Stephen C. McCluskey, and John Steele
Part I Methodology
What Equinox? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Juan Antonio Belmonte
Their Equinox: Mesopotamian Conceptions of Solstices
and Equinoxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
John Steele
The Hopi Calendar and Some Archaeological Correlates
of Horizon Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Stephen C. McCluskey
Signs, Not Phenomena: Moqoit Cosmo- politics
and Alternative Experiences of the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Alejandro Martín López
Sun, Sea, and Sky: On Translating Directions (and Other Terms)
in the Greek Geographers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
D. Graham J. Shipley
Part II Case Studies
The North Sky and the Otherworld: Journeys of the Dead
in the Neolithic Considered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Frank Prendergast
Diachrony and the Big Picture: Chabola de la Hechicera,
a Peculiar Orientation and a Sacred Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
A. César González-García