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(Editor) Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges between Cultures. Cambridge University Press (2011)

(Co-principal author with Michel Cotte) Heritage Sites of Astronomy in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention. ICOMOS–IAU (2010 [e-edition] & 2011 [printed edition])

(Co-editor with Gary Urton) Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy. University Press of Colorado (2007 [hardback] & 2010 [paperback])

Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara (2005)

(Assistant editor) Songs from the Sky: Indigenous Astronomical and Cosmological Traditions of the World. Ocarina Books and Center for Archaeoastronomy (2005)

(Editor) Records in Stone: Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom. Cambridge University Press (Reprinted 2003; originally published 1988).

(Co-editor with Frank Prendergast and Tom Ray) Astronomy, Cosmology, and Landscape. Ocarina Books, Bognor Regis (2001)

Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland. Yale University Press (1999)

(Editor) Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s. Group D Publications, Loughborough (1993)

(Co-editor with Nicholas Saunders) Astronomies and Cultures. University Press of Colorado (1993).

(Co-editor with David Medyckyj-Scott, Ian Newman and David Walker) Metadata in the Geosciences. Group D Publications, Loughborough (1991)

(Editor and principal author) Formal Methods in Standards. Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1990).

(Co-editor with Sebastian Rahtz) Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology 1987. BAR International Series 393, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford (1988).

Megalithic Astronomy: a New Archaeological and Statistical Study of 300 Western Scottish Sites. BAR British Series 123, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford (1984).

(Co-editor with Alasdair Whittle) Astronomy and Society in Britain During the Period 4000-1500 BC. BAR British Series 88, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford (1981).

Selected articles

Pushing back the frontiers or still running around the same circles? ‘Interpretative archaeoastronomy’ thirty years on. In Clive Ruggles (ed.), Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges between Cultures, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 1–18.

(With Iván Ghezzi) The social and ritual context of horizon astronomical observations at Chankillo. In Clive Ruggles (ed.), Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges between Cultures, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 144–153.

(With Krzysztof Makowski) Watching the sky from the ushnu: the sukanka-like summit temple in Pueblo-Viejo–Pucara (Lurin Valley, Peru). In Clive Ruggles (ed.), Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges between Cultures, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 169–177.

(With Efrosyni Boutsikas) Temples, stars and ritual landscapes: the potential for archaeoastronomy in ancient Greece. American Journal of Archaeology, 115(1) 2011, 55–68.

Indigenous astronomies and progress in modern astronomy. In Ray Norris and Clive Ruggles (eds), “Accelerating the Rate of Astronomical Discovery” (Special Session 5, XXVII IAU General Assembly, August 11–14 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Proceedings of Science, 2010, PoS(sps5)029. 18pp.

Astronomy and world heritage. In Ian F. Corbett (ed), “Highlights of the XXVII IAU General Assembly, August 2009.” Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 6 (Transactions T27B), 2010, 12–17.

Il generale e lo specifico: alcuni problemi metologici in archeoastronomia. In M. Codebò (ed.), Archeoastronomia: un Dibattito tra Archeologi ed Astronomi alla Ricerca di un Metodo Comune [Archaeoastronomy: a debate between archaeologists and astronomers looking for a common method] (Atti del Convegno Internazionale XIII, Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri), De Ferrari, Genova, 2009, 205–215.

(With Irakli Simonia and Nodar Bakhtadze) An astronomical investigation of the seventeen-hundred year old Nekresi Fire Temple in the eastern part of Georgia. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 12(3) (2009), 235–239.

Astronomy and world heritage. World Heritage, no. 54 (3rd quarter 2009), 6–15.

(With Ivan Ghezzi) Las trece torres de Chankillo: Arqueoastronomía y organización social en el primer observatorio solar de América. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP, 10 (2008 [dated 2006]), 215–235.

(With Irakli Simonia and Raul Chagunava) Ethnographic and literary reflections on ancient Georgian astronomical heritage. Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 11(3) (2008), 213–218.

(With Ivan Ghezzi) Chankillo: a 2,300-year-old solar observatory in coastal Peru. In Anthony F. Aveni (ed.), Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, University Press of Colorado, 2008, 181–198. [First published 2007.]

(With Nicholas Saunders) The study of cultural astronomy. In Anthony F. Aveni (ed.), Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, University Press of Colorado, 2008, 725–750. [First published 1993.]

(With Gary Urton) Introduction. In Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton (eds), Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy, University Press of Colorado, 2010 [2007], 1–15.

Cosmology, calendar, and temple orientations in ancient Hawai‘i. In Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton (eds), Skywatching in the Ancient World: New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy, University Press of Colorado, 2010 [2007], 287–329.

Interpreting solstitial alignments in Late Neolithic Wessex. Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture, 20 (2007 [dated 2006]), 1–27.

(With Mike Parker Pearson, Ros Cleal, Peter Marshall, Stuart Needham, Josh Pollard, Colin Richards, Alison Sheridan, Julian Thomas, Chris Tilley, Kate Welham, Andrew Chamberlain, Carolyn Chenery, Jane Evans, Chris Knüsel, Neil Linford, Louise Martin, Janet Montgomery, Andy Payne and Mike Richards) The Age of Stonehenge. Antiquity, 81 (2007), 617–639.

(With Ivan Ghezzi) Chankillo: a 2300-Year-Old Solar Observatory in Coastal Peru. Science, 315 (2007), 1239-1243.

SUPPORTING MATERIALS

Arqueoastronomía en Polinesia. In José Lull García (ed.), Trabajos de Arqueoastronomía, Agrupación Astronómica de La Safor, Gandía, Spain, 2006, 257–281. [In Spanish]

Archaeoastronomy. In Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn (eds), Archaeology: The Key Concepts, 11-16. Routledge, Abingdon, 2005.

Landscape archaeology and the archaeology of pilgrimage: a view from across the Atlantic. In John B. Carlson (ed.), Pilgrimage and the Ritual Landscape in Pre-Columbian America, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC. In press.

(With David Turton). The haphazard astronomy of the Mursi. In Von Del Chamberlain, John Carlson and M. Jane Young (eds) with Clive Ruggles (assistant editor), Songs from the Sky: Indigenous Astronomical and Cosmological Traditions of the World, Ocarina Books, Bognor Regis and Center for Archaeoastronomy, College Park MD, 2005, 299-309.

Heiau orientations and alignments in Kaua‘i. Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture, 16 (2002 [dated 2001]), 46-82.

L’uso dell’Archeoastronomia nell’esplorazione della cosmologia antica: problemi di teoria e metodo. In Francesco Bertola, Giuliano Romano and Eduardo Proverbio (eds), L’Uomo Antico e il Cosmo, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Atti dei Convegni Lincei), Rome, 2002, 19-33. [In Italian]

The general and the specific: dealing with cultural diversity. Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture, 15 (2001 [dated 2000]), 151-177.

(With Joshua Pollard) Shifting perceptions: spatial order, cosmology, and patterns of deposition at Stonehenge. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 11(1) (2001), 69-90.

Astronomy, oral literature, and landscape in ancient Hawai‘i. Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture, 14(2) (2000 [dated 1999]), 33-86.

Ancient astronomies—ancient worlds. Archaeoastronomy (JHA) no. 25 (2000), S65-76.

(With Gordon Barclay) Cosmology, calendars and society in Neolithic Orkney: a rejoinder to Euan MacKie. Antiquity, 74 (2000), 62-74. Reprinted in Timothy Darvill and Caroline Malone (eds), Megaliths from Antiquity (Antiquity Papers, 3), Antiquity Publications, York, 2003, 339-354.

Ritual astronomy in the Neolithic and Bronze Age British Isles: patterns of continuity and change. In Alex Gibson and Derek Simpson (eds.), Prehistoric Ritual and Religion: Essays in Honour of Aubrey Burl, Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1998, 203-208.

Whose equinox? Archaeoastronomy (JHA) no. 22 (1997), S45-50.

Astronomy and Stonehenge. In Barry Cunliffe and Colin Renfrew (eds.), Science and Stonehenge, British Academy/Oxford University Press, 1997, pp. 203–229

(With Michael Hoskin) Astronomy before history. In Michael Hoskin (ed.), The Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2-21 and The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 1-17.

(With Roger Martlew). Ritual and landscape on the west coast of Scotland: an investigation of the stone rows of northern Mull. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 62 (1996), 117-131.

Archaeoastronomy in Europe. In Christopher Walker (ed.), Astronomy Before the Telescope, British Museum Press, London, 1996, 15-27.

(With Frank Prendergast) A new archaeoastronomical investigation of the Irish axial-stone circles. In Wolfhard Schlosser (ed.), Proceedings of the Second SEAC Conference, Bochum, August 29th-31st, 1994, Bochum, 1996, 5-13.

(With Aubrey Burl) Astronomical influences on prehistoric ritual architecture in north-western Europe: the case of the stone rows. Vistas in Astronomy 39 (1995), 517-28.

The stone rows of south-west Ireland [in two parts]. Archaeoastronomy (JHA) no. 19 (1994), S1-20 and no. 21 (1996), S55-71.

The meeting of the methodological worlds? Towards the integration of different discipline-based approaches to the study of cultural astronomy. In Stanisław Iwaniszewski, Arnold Lebeuf, Andrzej Wierciński and Mariusz Ziółkowski (eds.), Time and Astronomy at the Meeting of Two Worlds, Warsaw, 1994, 497-515.

(With Nicholas Saunders) The study of cultural astronomy. In Clive Ruggles and Nicholas Saunders (eds.), Astronomies and Cultures, University Press of Colorado, 1993, 1-31.

A statistical examination of the radial line azimuths at Nazca. In A.F. Aveni (ed.), The Lines of Nazca, American Philosophical Society, Philadephia, 1989, 245-269.

(With Roger Martlew) The North Mull project [in four parts; part 2 also with Peter Hinge]. Archaeoastronomy (JHA) no. 14 (1989), S137-149; no. 16 (1991), S51-75; no. 17 (1992), S1-13 and no. 18 (1993), S55-64.

Recent developments in megalithic astronomy. In Anthony F. Aveni (ed.), World Archaeoastronomy, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 13-26.

The stone alignments of Argyll and Mull: a perspective on the statistical approach in archaeoastronomy. In Clive Ruggles (ed.), Records in Stone: Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom, Cambridge University Press, 1988, 232-50.

The Borana calendar—some observations. Archaeoastronomy (JHA) no. 11 (1987), S35-53.

The linear settings of Argyll and Mull. Archaeoastronomy (JHA) no. 9 (1985), S105-132.

Megalithic astronomy: the last five years. Vistas in Astronomy 27 (1984), 231-289.

(With Nicholas Saunders) The interpretation of the pecked cross symbols at Teotihuacan: a methodological note. Archaeoastronomy (JHA) no. 7 (1984), S101-107.

A new study of the Aberdeenshire recumbent stone circles [in two parts; part 2 with Aubrey Burl]. Archaeoastronomy (JHA) no. 6 (1984), S55-79 and no. 8 (1985), S25-60.

A reassessment of the high precision megalithic lunar sightlines [in two parts]. Archaeoastronomy (JHA) no. 4 (1982), S21-40 and no. 5 (1983), S1-36.

A critical examination of the megalithic lunar observatories. In Clive Ruggles and Alasdair Whittle (eds.), Astronomy and Society in Britain During the Period 4000-1500 BC, BAR British Series 88, Oxford, 1981, 153-209.

(With Gordon Moir and Ray Norris). Megalithic science and some Scottish site plans. Antiquity 54 (1980), 40-43.

(With David Turton) Agreeing to disagree: the measurement of duration in a southwestern Ethiopian community. Current Anthropology 19 (1978), 585-600.

(With John Cooke, Roger Few and Guy Morgan). Indicated declinations at the Callanish megalithic sites. Journal for the History of Astronomy 8 (1977), 113-133.

(With Mark Bailey, John Cooke, Roger Few and Guy Morgan) Survey of three megalithic sites in Argyllshire. Nature 253 (1975), 431-433.

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