Edited by Clive Ruggles
Cambridge University Press 1988 and 2003
1 A personal note about my late father, Alexander Thom. Archie Thom 3
2 A personal appreciation of Professor Alexander Thom. Hans Motz 14
3 The career and publications of Alexander Thom. Compiled by Archie Thom 21
4 A catalogue of the Alexander Thom archive held in the National Monuments Record of Scotland. Lesley Ferguson 31
5 The metrology and geometry of Megalithic Man. Alexander Thom & Archie Thom 132
6 Megalithic landscapes. Chris Jennings 155
7 'Without sharp north...' Alexander Thom and the great stone circles of Cumbria. Aubrey Burl 175
8 Investigating the prehistoric solar calendar. Euan MacKie 206
9 The stone alignments of Argyll and Mull: A perspective on the statistical approach in archaeoastronomy. Clive Ruggles 232
10 A cluster analysis of astronomical orientations. Jon Patrick & Peter Freeman 251
11 Megalithic observatories in Britain: real or imagined? Ray Norris 262
12 The stone rows of northern Scotland. Leslie Myatt 277
13 Stones in the landscape of Brittany. Pierre-Roland Giot 319
14 The orientation of visibility from the chambered cairns of Eday, Orkney. David Fraser 325
15 The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney. Graham Ritchie 337
16 The geometry of some megalithic rings. Ronald Curtis 351
17 Megalithic compound ring geometry. Thaddeus Cowan 378
18 The metrology of cup-and-ring carvings. Alan Davis 392
19 Megalithic Callanish. Margaret Ponting 423
20 The Thom paradigm in the Americas: The case of the cross-circle designs. Anthony Aveni 442
21 Light in the temples. Ed Krupp 473