SYNCHRONIZED WITH NATURE. Measuring Time in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia: Archaeological and Textual Evidence (Rosapat 16) - LORENZO NIGRO

F.to 17x24, 220 pp., ill.ni in b/n

CONTENTS

Preface by LORENZO NIGRO iii
LORENZO NIGRO - The “Synchronized with Nature” (Syn-Nat) Project:
Method and Achievements 1
ELIO ANTONELLO - Reconstructing the Sky and the Celestial Phenomena
of the Past 7
ALBERTO GIOVANNI BIUSO - Time and History 15
JOHN STEELE - Astronomy and the Babylonian Calendar 25
JUAN ANTONIO BELMONTE - JOSÉ LULL - Sirius, the Moon and C14:
Astronomy and Radiocarbon in the Chronology of Ancient Egypt 37
FRANCESCO DE GAETANO - Counting Years in the III Millennium Egypt:
Evidence and Interpretations 51
ANDREA POLCARO - Southern Levantine Stone Calendars: The Orientations
of the Late Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age Sacred Precincts 63
DOMIZIA PAOLUCCI - Visual Representations of Time in Proto-Dynastic
and Early Dynastic Egypt 75
MARTIN B. SWEATMAN - A Solar Calendar at Göbekli Tepe, and a Comet Cult
at the Origin of Civilisation 87
LORENZO NIGRO - The Gezer Calendar: A Witness of Agricultural
Timekeeping in Early Iron Age Southern Palestine 109
LORENZO NIGRO - Celestial Alignments in The Bronze Age Temples’
Architecture of Ancient Palestine 115
ANNUNZIATA ROSITANI - Myths on the Origins of Time
in Ancient Mesopotamia 133
NICOLA LANERI - Time in ancient Mesopotamia: A view from Tell Muhammad
on the Fall of Babylon 151
Appendix I by LORENZO NIGRO - PRIN2022 SYN_NAT Project: Scientific
Report on the Field Mission to Rhodes 165
Appendix II by LORENZO NIGRO - The Heraion of Samos: Its Orientation
and Sacred Landscape 191