Document Type
Book
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Interdisciplinary, Archaeology
Abstract
A succinct and very useful, illustrated, explanatory guide to the phenomenon of solar alignment in the irish Passage Tomb tradition. Includes a listing of where to visit the 15 known astronomically aligned passage tombs in the 32 counties.
Written by Dr Frank Prendergast who is now Emeritus at the Dublin Institute of Technology, where he researches Irish prehistoric monuments and their landscapes from a cultural astronomy perspective. His current interests and publications are on the meaning of the dark sky in the prehistoric past and on the conservation of archaeological landscapes from light pollution.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/9gxz-7t23
Recommended Citation
Prendergast, Frank (2018). Solar Alignment and the Irish Passage Tomb Tradition. Archaeology Ireland Heritage Guide No. 82. https://bit.ly/2MkvdtL . doi:10.21427/9gxz-7t23
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Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Other Astrophysics and Astronomy Commons, Other Engineering Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, The Sun and the Solar System Commons
Publication Details
ISSN 0790-982X. This publication is available to download only at https://bit.ly/2MkvdtL .