Records in stone : papers in memory of Alexander Thom

Alexander Strang Thom · Clive Ruggles

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Foreword Part I. Alexander Thom's Life and Work: 1. A personal note about my late father, Alexander Thom Archie Thom 2. A personal appreciation of Professor Alexander Thom Hans Motz 3. The career and publications of Alexander Thom Compiled by Archie Thom 4. A catalogue of the Alexander Thom archive held in the National Monuments Record of Scotland Lesley Ferguson 5. The metrology and geometry of Megalithic Man Alexander Thom and Archie Thom 6. Megalithic landscape Chris Jennings Part II. Research Papers: Archaeological Research Inspired by Alexander Thom: 7. 'Without sharp north ...' Alexander Thom and the great stone circles of Cumbria Aubrey Burl 8. Investigating the prehistoric solar calendar Euan MacKie 9. The stone alignments of Argyll and Mull: a perspective on the statistical approach in archaeoastronomy Clive Ruggles 10. A cluster analysis of astronomical orientations Jon Patrick and Peter Freeman 11. Megalithic observatories in Britain: real or imagined? Ray Norris 12. The stone rows of northern Scotland Leslie Myatt 13. Stones in the landscape of Brittany Pierre-Roland Giot 14. The orientation of visibility from the chambered cairns of Eday, Orkney David Fraser 15. The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Graham Ritchie 16. The geometry of some megalithic rings Ronald Curtis 17. Megalithic compound ring geometry Thaddeus Cowan 18. The metrology of cup-and-ring carvings Alan Davis 19. Megalithic Callanish Margaret Ponting 20. The Thom paradigm in the Americas: the case of the cross-circle designs Anthony Aveni 21. Light in the temples Ed Krupp Abbreviations Bibliography.

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