Rowan Leaf Astronomy Books Page

Aveni, Anthony F.
1995. Ancient Astronomers; St. Remy Press and Smithsonian Institute
An intro text with photographs in the Smithsonian _Exploring the Ancient World_ series.

Bauer, Brian S. and David S.P. Dearborn
1995. Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes; (HC) University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
1995. Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes; (PB)
Using information from Spanish invaders, current legends, and archaeology, the authors construct a
view of the ancient Incan calendar, and how they regarded celestial objects and portents. (May be dry reading for many.)

Brennan, Martin
1994. The Stones of Time : Calendars, Sundials, and Stone Chambers of Ancient Ireland; Inner Traditions International, Rochester, VT 216 pp.
Many illustrative diagrams, and informative text. Good discussion on ancient astronomy focusing
in on Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth. Recommended.

Burl, Aubrey
1985. Megalithic Brittany : A Guide to over 350 Ancient Sites and Monuments; Thames and Hudson, London 176 pp. (Out of Print)
This book is a useful guide to a number of megalithic sites in Brittany, and is profusely illustrated with black and white photos. While this is a handy book for people travelling in Brittany, it is also informative about types of artifacts found, many of which seem to have astronomical significance or
alignment.

Castledon, Rodney
1987. The Stonehenge People : An Exploration of Life in Neolithic Britain, 4700-2000 BC Routledge, London.
An excellent book depicting possible life in Neolithic England, backed up with solid research. There is also some discussion on the megaliths and their purposes. Recommended.

Cornelius, Geoffrey
1997. The Starlore Handbook : An Essential Guide to the Night Sky; Chronicle Books, San Francisco 176 pp.
This book gives a good overview of the constellations and other celestial objects, concentrating on the Greek myths by which we know most of their names today. Each constellation is illustrated -- the only downside is that through the drawing style it is difficult to distinguish the underlying stars that create the patterns, so this book may be difficult to use for actual stellar observations.

Cornell, James
1981. The First Stargazers : An Introduction to the Origins of Astronomy; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 262 pp. (Out of Print)
The author concentrates on several locations around the world, explaining how stargazing and the
systematic world view obtained from the study of celestial alignments were important in these early cultures.

Hawkins, Gerald S
1988. Stonehenge Decoded; Doubleday and Co., New York. 202 pp. (Out of Print)
An astronomer weighs the evidence that Stonehenge was a giant astronomical observatory in use by 3 different groups of people over a 400 year period starting about 1900 BCE.

Hudson, Travis and Ernest Underhay
1978. Crystals in the Sky : An Intellectual Odyssey Involving Chumash Astronomy, Cosmology and Rock Art (Anthropological Papers : No. 10)t. Ballena Press, PO Box 1366, Socorro, New Mexico 87801. 163 pp. This is one in a series of archaeological papers, and as such may be dry for many readers. However, the research seems comprehensive and well-presented. The Chumash are a tribe of Native Americans from the Californian Sierra Madre area who had a rich cosmology and who left many relevant artifacts.

Krupp, E.C
1992. Beyond the Blue Horizon : Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England 387 pp.
Myths, legends, and stories about the stars and planets from cultures around the world. Eclipses, the Pleiades, the signs of the Zodiac, are all explored and compared, culture to culture. The author writes engagingly, conveying a strong fascination. Recommended.

Krupp, E.C.
1997. Skywatchers, Shamans, & Kings : Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power (Wiley Popular Science,). John Wiley and Sons, New York. 364 pp.
Once again, Krupp looks at cultures around the world, investigating how their view of celestial phenomena color, and are colored by, the need to honor power. That which happened in the remote celestial planes could be harnessed by those in the right place to help sanctify their own authority here on Earth. Recommended.

Malville, J. McKim and Claudia Putnam
1989, 1993. Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest; Johnson Books, Boulder, CO 108 pp.
Southwestern Native American. Discusses Anasazi, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Chimney Rock, and other sites. Rather a dry read.

O'Brien, Christian
1983. Megalithic Odyssey : A Search for the Master Builders of the Bodmin Moor Astronomical Complex of Stone Circles and Giant Cairns; Turnstone Press Unlimited, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire 176 pp. (Out of Print)
Bodmin Moor lies in Cornwall. While this book is not easy reading, the author has done extensive
legwork himself to calculate measurements at this site. The author considers the work done here to be related to designs and sites constructed in Ireland as well as in the pre-Sumerian Middle East.

Raymo, Chet
1996. Soul of the Night : An Astronomical Pilgrimage; Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 208 pp.
More a book of reflections on literary and mythologial allusions to the celestial spheres than one on
archaeoastronomy, nonetheless this book fits in here.

Williamson, Ray A
1984. Living the Sky : The Cosmos of the American Indian; University of Oklahoma Press, Norman and London OK 366 pp.
This book discusses what seems to be known about various North American tribal attitudes towards cosmology, both in terms of mythology and the archeological record. It contains many black and white photos and illustrations.

Brecher, Kenneth and Michael Feirtag, ed
1979. The Astronomy of the Ancients. MIT Press, Cambridge MA . (Out of Print)
Eight articles on topics such as Stonehenge, the star Sirius, Plains Indians and medicine wheels, etc.


Anthony F. Aveni	Stairways to the Stars : Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures	HC
Anthony F. Aveni	Behind the Crystal Ball : Magic, Science, and the Occult from Antiquity Through the New Age	HC	1996
Anthony F. Aveni	Conversing With the Planets : How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos (Kodansha Globe)	PB	1994
Anthony F. Aveni,	Empires of Time : Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures	PB	1995
Anthony F. Aveni	The Sky in Mayan Literature	HC	1995
Anthony F. Aveni	Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico	PB	1983
Anthony F. Aveni	Stairways to the Stars : Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures	HC	1997
Anthony F. Aveni	World Archaeoastronomy	HC	1989
Anthony F. Aveni	Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America (Out of Print)		1975
Anthony F. Aveni	Archaeoastronomy in the New World (Out of Print)		1982
Anthony F. Aveni	Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; V. 385) (Out of Print)		1982
Anthony Aveni	Native American Astronomy (Out of Print)		1977

Martin Brennan	The Boyne Valley Vision (Out of Print)		1981
Martin Brennan	Hands of Time : The Sacred Sign Language of the Ancient Maya (Out of Print)		1996
Martin Brennan	The Stars and the Stones : Ancient Art and Astronomy in Ireland (Out of Print)		1984
Martin Brennan	The Stones of Ancient Ireland (Out of Print)		1992

Aubrey Burl	A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany (1995)	PB	1995
Aubrey Burl	Prehistoric Avebury	PB	1986
Aubrey Burl	From Carnac to Callanish : The Prehistoric Stone Rows and Avenues of Britain, Ireland and Brittany	HC	1993
Aubrey Burl	Rites of the Gods	HC	1982
Aubrey Burl	Four-posters : Bronze Age stone circles of Western Europe (Out of Print)
Aubrey Burl	Prehistoric astronomy and ritual (Out of Print)
Aubrey Burl	Prehistoric henges (Out of Print)
Abbey Burl	Rings of Stone (Out of Print)		1981
Aubrey Burl	Rings of Stone : The Prehistoric Stone Circles of Britain and Ireland (Out of Print)		1980
Aubrey Burl	The Stone Circles of the British Isles (Out of Print)		1979
Aubrey Burl	The Stonehenge people Aubrey Burl (Out of Print)

Rodney Castleden	The Making of Stonehenge		1994
Rodney Castleden	Neolithic Britain : New Stone Age Sites of England, Scotland, and Wales (Out of Stock)	HC	1992
Rodney Castleden	The Wilmington giant : the quest for a lost myth (Out of Print)

Geoffrey Cornelius	Introducing Astrology	PB	1995
Geoffrey Cornelius	The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets : A Visual Key to the Heavens	PB	1996
Geoffrey Cornelius	The Moment of Astrology : Origins in Divination (Contemporary Astrology)	PB	1994
Geoffrey Cornelius	The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets : A Visual Key to the Heavens	HC	1996

James Cornell	Bubbles, Voids, and Bumps in Time : The New Cosmology	PB	1992
Judith Cornell	Cal 99 Mandalas	PB	1998
Judith Cornell	Drawing the Light from Within : Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power	PB	1997
Judith Cornell	Mandala : Luminous Symbols for Healing	PB	1995

James Cornell	Astronomy from Space : Sputnik to Space Telescope	HC	1983
James Cornell	Infinite Vistas : New Tools for Astronomy (Out of Print)		1985
James Cornell	Lost Lands and Forgotten People (Out of Print)		1979
James Cornell	Man and Cosmos : Nine Guggenheim Lectures on the Solar System (Out of Print)		1975
James Cornell	Revealing the Universe (Out of Print)		1982
James Cornell	Revealing the Universe : Prediction and Proof in Astronomy (Out of Print)		1983

Gerald S. Hawkins	Beyond Stonehenge (Out of Stock)	HC	1989
Gerald S. Hawkins	Mindsteps to the Cosmos (Out of Print)		1983
Gerald S. Hawkins	The Moon Tonight, (Out of Print)		1971

Thomas Freeman Hudson	The High Age of the Celtic Church : An Introduction	PB	1992
Travis Hudson	The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere (Bp-Ap, No. 25, 27-28, 30-31) Vol 1	HC	1982
Travis Hudson	The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere : Food Procurement and Transportation Vol 1	PB	1982
Travis Hudson	Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere : Food Preparation and Shelter Vol 2	HC	1983
Travis Hudson	Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere : Clothing, Ornamentation, and Grooming (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No 28) Vol 3	PB	1985
Travis Hudson	Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere : Clothing, Ornamentation, and Grooming (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No 28) Vol 3	HC	1985
Travis Hudson	The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere : Ceremonial Paraphernalia, Games, and Amusements Vol 4	HC	1986
Travis Hudson	Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere : Ceremonial Paraphernalia, Games, and Amusements (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No 30) Vol 4	PB	1986
Travis Hudson	Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere : Manufacturing Processes, Metrology and Trade Vol 5 (Out of Stock)	HC	1987
Travis Hudson	Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere : Manufacturing Processes, Metrology and Trade (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No 31) Vol 5	PB	1987

Edwin C. Krupp	The Big Dipper and You		1989
Edwin C. Krupp	The Big Dipper and You	HC	1989
Edwin C. Krupp	Echoes of the Ancient Skies : The Astronomy of Lost Civilizations	PB	1994
Robin Rector Krupp Edwin C. Krupp	The Moon and You		1993
Edwin C. Krupp	Archaeoastronomy and the Roots of Science (Out of Print)		1984
Edwin C. Krupp	Comet and You (Out of Print)		1985
Edwin C. Krupp	In Search of Ancient Astronomies (Out of Print)		1978

J. McKim Malville	The Fermenting Universe (Out of Print)		1981
J. McKim Malville	The Fermenting Universe : Myths of Eternal Change (Out of Print)		1981

Conor Cruise O'Brien	Ancestral Voices : Religion and Nationalism in Ireland	PB	1996
Maire MacEntee O'Brien	Ireland : A Concise History	PB	1985
C. A. E. O'Brien	An integrated astronomical complex of earthworks at Wandlebury and Hatfield Forest from the third millenium B.C. : for the establishment of solar and lunar calendars and for an apparent attempt at measuring the circumference of the earth (Out of Print)

Chet Raymo	Starry Nights : An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year	PB	1992

R. J. Stewart	Celtic Bards, Celtic Druids	HC	1996
Roger Williamson	The Sun at Night	PB	1997
Jean Guard Monroe	They Dance in the Sky : Native American Star Myths	HC	1987
Ray A. Williamson	Archaeoastronomy in the Americas (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers ; No. 22) (Out of Print)		1981
Robin Williamson, James Hutcheson	The Craneskin Bag : Celtic Stories and Poems (Out of Print)		1990
Richard Calvert Williamson	The great yew forest : the natural history of Kingley Vale (Out of Print)
Robin Williamson	Wise and Foolish Tongue : Celtic Stories and Poems (Out of Print)		1991