The encyclopedia contains articles on:

A

• Aboriginal astronomy
• Abri Blanchard bone
• Alignment studies
• Altitude
• Ancient Egyptian calendars
• Andean mountain shrines
• Angkor
• Antas
• Antizenith passage of the sun
• Archaeoastronomy
• Archaeotopography
• Astro-archaeology
• Astrology
• Astronomical dating
• Avebury
• Axial stone circles
• Azimuth
• Aztec sacred geography

B

• Babylonian astronomy and astrology
• Ballochroy
• Barasana “caterpillar jaguar” constellation
• Beltany
• Borana calendar
• Boyne Valley tombs
• Brainport Bay
• Brodgar, Ring of
• “Brown” archaeoastronomy
• Bush Barrow gold lozenge

C

• Cacaxtla
• Cahokia
• Calendars
• Callanish
• Caracol at Chichen Itza
• Carahunge
• Cardinal directions
• Casa Rinconada
• Catastrophic events
• Celestial sphere
• Celtic calendar
• Ceque system
• Chaco Canyon
• Chaco Meridian
• Chaco supernova pictograph
• Chinese astronomy
• Christianization of “pagan” festivals
• Church orientations
• Circles of earth, timber, and stone
• Circumpolar stars
• Clava cairns
• Cobo, Bernabé (1582-1657)
• Coffin lids
• Cognitive archaeology
• Comets, novae, and meteors
• Compass and clinometer surveys
• Constellation maps on the ground
• Cosmology
• Crucifixion of Christ
• Crucuno
• Cumbrian stone circles
• Cursus monuments
• Cusco sun pillars

D

• Declination
• Delphic oracle
• Diurnal motion
• Dresden Codex
• Drombeg

E

• Easter Island
• Eclipse records and the earth’s rotation
• Ecliptic
• Egyptian temples and tombs
• Emu in the sky
• Equinoxes
• Ethnoastronomy
• Ethnocentrism
• Extinction

F

• Fajada Butte sun dagger
• Field survey
• Fiskerton

G

• Governor’s Palace at Uxmal
• GPS surveys
• Grand Menhir Brisé
• “Green” archaeoastronomy
• Gregorian calendar
• Group E structures

H

• Ha‘amonga-a-Maui
• Hawaiian calendar
• Heliacal rise
• Hesiod (8th century B.C.)
• Hopewell mounds
• Hopi calendar and worldview
• Horizon calendars of central Mexico
• How the sky has changed over the centuries

I

• Inferior planets, motions of
• Inuit cosmology
• Iron-Age roundhouses
• Is Paras
• Islamic astronomy
• Island of the Sun

J

• Javanese calendar
• Julian calendar

K

• Kintraw
• Kukulcan
• Kumukahi
• Kumulipo

L

• Lakota sacred geography
• Land of the Rising Sun
• Landscape
• Ley lines
• Lockyer, Sir Norman (1836–1920)
• Lunar and luni-solar calendars
• Lunar eclipses
• Lunar parallax
• Lunar phase cycle

M

• Maes Howe
• Magellanic Clouds
• Mangareva
• Mayan Long Count
• Medicine Wheels
• “Megalithic astronomy”
• “Megalithic” calendar
• Megalithic monuments of Britain and Ireland
• Megalithic “observatories”
• Meridian
• Mesoamerican calendar round
• Mesoamerican cross-circle designs
• Methodology
• Mid-quarter days
• Minoan temples and tombs
• Misminay
• Mithraism
• Monuments and cosmology
• Moon, motions of
• Mursi calendar

N

• Nā Pali chant
• Nabta Playa
• Namoratung’a
• Nasca lines and figures
• Nationalism
• Navajo cosmology
• Navajo hogan
• Navajo star ceilings
• Navigation
• Navigation in ancient Oceania
• Nebra disc
• Necker Island
• Newgrange
• Nissen, Heinrich (1839–1912)
• Nuraghi

O

• Obliquity of the ecliptic
• Orientation
• Orion

P

• Palaeoscience
• Pantheon
• Pawnee cosmology
• Pawnee earth lodge
• Pawnee star chart
• Pilgrimage
• Polynesian and Micronesian astronomy
• Polynesian temple platforms and enclosures
• Power
• Precession
• Precision and accuracy
• Prehistoric tombs and temples in Europe
• Presa de la Mula
• Pyramids of Giza

Q

• Quipu

R

• Recumbent stone circles
• Refraction
• Roman astronomy and astrology
• Rujm el-Hiri

S

• Sacred geographies
• Sarmizegetusa Regia
• Saroeak
• Science or symbolism?
• Short stone rows
• Sky bears
• Solar eclipses
• Solstices
• Solstitial alignments
• Solstitial directions
• Somerville, Boyle (1864–1936)
• Son Mas
• Space and time, ancient perceptions of
• Star and crescent symbol
• Star compasses of the Pacific
• Star names
• Star of Bethlehem
• Star rising and setting positions
• Statistical analysis
• Stone circles
• Stonehenge
• Sun, motions of
• Superior planets, motions of
• Swedish rock art
• Symbols

T

• Taulas
• Temple alignments in ancient Greece
• Teotihuacan street grid
• Theodolite surveys
• Thom, Alexander (1894–1985)
• Thornborough
• Tri-radial cairns

V

• Venus in Mesoamerica

W

• Wedge tombs

Y

• Years B.C. and years before 0
• Yekuana roundhouses

Z

• Zenith passage of the sun
• Zenith stars in Polynesia
• Zenith tubes

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