Archaeoastronomy in Archaeology and Ethnography: Papers from the annual meeting of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy in Culture) held in Kecskemét in Hungary in 2004

Papers from the annual meeting of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy in Culture) held in Kecskemét in Hungary in 2004. Contents: 1) The Firestar in China - A European approach (Katalin Barlai, B. Lukács); 2) The Function of the Minoan oval house at Chamaizi (Mary Blomberg and Göran Henriksson); 3) The orientation of Greek temples: a statistical analysis (Efrosyni Boutsikas) 4) Architecture of light (George Dimitriadis); 5) The orientation of the 'Huenenbetten' of Lower Saxony (A. C. González-García and L. Costa Ferrer); 6) The Dacian capital "Sarmizegetusa-Regia" was sited according to precise astronomic alignments and Pythagorean doctrines (Franz Kerek); 7) Megalithic complex Akhunovo - one of the most ancient observatories (Andrey Kirillov and Fyodor Petrov); 8) Domestic icons in the life of man from the Neolithic and Eneolithic age and their archaeoastronomical meaning (Ivelina Miteva, Mina Stoeva, Penka Muglova, Milen Mitev, Alexey Stoev); 9) Astronomical Basis of Arrangement of Sacral Space of the Eneolithic Burial Mounds in the Northern Pontic Area (on materials of the archaeological excavations) (Tamila Potyomkina); 10) Typology of the mountain Thrace archaeoastronomical sites (Alexey Stoev, Penka Muglova, Mina Stoeva, Ivelina Miteva); 11) The problem of time in prehistory, symbol signs and time measuring (Mina Stoeva); 12) Astronomy and landscape on Easter Island. New hints in the light of ethnographical sources (Juan Antonio Belmonte and Edmundo Edwards); 13) Month Names and Astronyms in Bulgarian Folk and Literary Heritage (Dimiter Kolev and Svetlana Koleva); 14) Wooden Calendars from Southeastern Bulgaria (Vesselina Koleva); 15) Celestial phenomena in Hungarian folk tradition (Szilvia Sebok); 16) The Pleiades constellation's ethnoastronomical aspects and the Romanian peasants (Florin Stanescu); 17) Ursa Major in Lithuanian folk tradition (Jonas Vaikunas); 18) Stars of Wonder: Venus in the Daylight Sky (Lajos Bartha); 19) How did the constellation of the Bear receive its name? (Peter E Blomberg); 20) Chronology for the Egyptian Pharaohs of the Amarna period and the Israeli leaders Moses and Joshua by correlation with eight solar eclipses (Göran Henriksson); 21) Glyphs E and D in the Lunar Series from Quirigua, Guatemala and Copan, Honduras (Stanislaw Iwaniszewski); 22) Cosmic spinning and weaving: Making the Texture of the World (Michael A. Rappenglueck); 23) Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg: An Italian High Renaissance Villa (Curt Roslund, Emília Pásztor, Göran Olofsson).