"The 19th meeting of the European Society for Astronomy and Culture was held in Évora, Portugal, from September 19th to 23th, 2011"--Preface.
1. Opening and public lecture. Voyages guided by the skies: ancient concepts of exploring and domesticating time and space across cultures / Michael A. Rappenglück
Voyages of the Zodiac, an impenitent traveller across lands and ages / Juan Antonio Belmonte
2. Astronomical navigation. An encounter of worlds. The archaeology of the nautical astrolabe: news from a shipwreck in Namibia / José Manuel Malhão Pereira
Celestial navigation in the USA, Fiji, and Tunisia / Jarita C. Holbrook
The problem of longitude in the 18th century: Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa and the expedition of the Paris Academy of Sciences to the kingdom of Peru / Manuel Pérez Gutiérrez
Star-paths, stones and horizon astronomy / Bernadette Brady
Protohistoric and historical Atlantic navigation: archaeological evidence from the Azores / Nuno Ribeiro, Anabela Joaquinito, Fernando Pimenta, Herbert Sauren, António Félix Rodrigues, Antonieta Costa, António Sérgio Pereira, Maria de Fraga Juliano, Joaquim, Fernandes, Ricardo Freitas, Ricardo Ventura, and Luís Tirapicos
3. Archaeoastronomical voyages in antiquity, Egypt, Middle East and Mediterranean. The development of the sacred landscape of Saqqara in the Old Kingdom / Giulio Magli
Orientation of the villas at Tylissos on Crete and their relationships to the Minoan calendar / Göran Henriksson, Mary Blomberg
Defining astrology in ancient and classical history / Nicholas Campion
Orion in Homer: is it a terrestrial, an astral or an astronomical myth? / Manuela Revello
Himera and Pyrgi: the diagonals and the alignments of the temples / Marcello Ranieri
Plato's cosmic theology: a rationale for a polytheistic astrology? / André Henriques
Ancient topometry, the tracing of towns in the Roman epoch: Ulpia Traiana dacica Sarmizegetusa - Romania. Second part / Florin Stanescu
4. Ethnoastronomical voyages in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Reading alien landscapes: thick versus thin descriptions in archaeoastronomy / J. McKim Malville
Statistical analysis of temple orientation in ancient India / Alba Aller, Juan Antonio Belmonte
The cosmos in Portuguese popular tradition: a bibliographic and fieldwork approach / Catarina Oliveira
On the intercourse between Indian and Arabic/Persian astrologies / Audrius Beinorius
5. Ethnoastronomical voyages in North America, Mesoamerica and South America. Shaking Eden: voyages, bodies and change in the social construction of South American skies / Alejandro Martín López
Sky travelers: cosmological experiences among evangelical Indians from the Argentinian Chaco / Agustina Altman
6. Archaeoastronomical voyages in paleolithic and neolithic cultures. Notes on archaeoastronomy in Portugal: from first light to dark moon / Cândido Marciano da Silva
A voyage around the recumbent stone circles of north-east Scotland / Liz Henty
Danish passage graves, 'spring/summer/fall full moons' and lunar standstills / Clas Jørgen Clausen
Ditched enclosures in southern Portugal: an archaeoastronomical view / J. Mejuto, A. Carlos Valera, J. Gómez Castaño, G. Rodríguez-Caderot, Helmut Becker
Possible astronomical intentionality in the Neolithic Mnajdra south temple in Malta / Tore Lomsdalen
Astronomical topographical orientation of Kreisgrabenanlagen in lower Austria / Georg Zotti, Wolfgang Neubauer
Out of Africa: the solarization of the moon / Lionel Sims
A possible astronomically aligned monolith at Gardom's Edge / Daniel Brown, Andy Alder, Elizabeth Bemand
7. Archaeoastronomical voyages in Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. A place along the way: contextualising findings from the Iron Age post enclosure at Lismullin, Co. Meath, Ireland / Frank Prendergast
Open air rock art between Alva and Ceira Rivers: a voyage through mining, trading, transhumance routes and the orientation in the landscape / F. Pimenta, N. Ribeiro, A. Smith, A. Joaquinito, S. Pereira and L. Tirapicos
Astronomical orientations in sanctuaries of Daunia / E. Antonello, V.F. Polcaro, A.M. Tunzi Sisto, M. Lo Zupone
From hillforts to saints: sun tropoi and patterns of christianization in NW Spain / Marco V. García Quintela, A. César González García, Yolanda Seoane Veiga
Astronomical aspects of Krakow's monumental mounds / Joanna Kozakiewicz
A myth in Celtiberian astronomy / Ma. Pilar Burillo-Cuadrado
The astronomical sanctuary of the Celtiberian town of Segeda (Mara, Zaragoza, Spain) / Francisco Burillo-Mozota, Manuel Pérez-Gutiérrez
Modeling and analysis of the Gobustan sundial observatory / Abasali Rustamov, Gunay Rustamova
8. Archaeoastronomical voyages in medieval time in orient and occident. A voyage of Christian medieval astronomy: symbolic, ritual and political orientation of churches / A. César González-García
Transient astronomical events as inspiration sources of medieval art. III: the 13th and 14th centuries, and the case of the French "ordre de l'étoile" / F. Bònoli, M. Incerti, V.F. Polcaro
English medieval churches, 'festival orientaiton' and William Wordsworth / Peter G. Hoare, Hans Ketel
9. History of astronomy: an encounter of cultures. Gods, demons and deceivers: Jesuits facing Chaco skies / Alejandro Martín López
Boscovich, the Brera Observatory and the Enlightenment / Elio Antonello
Archaeology and astronomy. A 300-year voyage / Jody Morellato
Astronomy and "Azuelejo" panels in Portuguese Jesuit colleges / Rosário Salema de carvalho, Samuel Gessner, Luís Tirapicos
The role of cultural astronomy in bridging the snow's "two cultures": some Italian experiences / V.F. Polcaro
Evangelista Torricelli and astronomy / Rosa María Herrera
10. Round table: To where is Archaeoastronomy voyaging? Archaeoastronomy, cultural astronomy and education. Navigating between the scylla of social construction and charybdis of logical empiricism: the construction of facts in archaeoastronomy / Stanisław Iwaniszewski
Where is cultural astronomy going? / Lionel Sims.
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SEAC 2011 Stars and Stones: Voyages in Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy : proceedings of the SEAC 2011 Conference. ISBN 9781407313733. Published by Archaeopress in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
