People and the Sky: Our Ancestors and the Cosmos

Description

Author: Aveni, Anthony (1938-)

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Pub Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, bends or folds.  Previous owner’s name and mark on upper corner title page, near spine head.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.  Dust Jacket: Fair to Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Light corner wear to all flap corners.

Notes: Archaeoastronomy.  “I have selected a few choice tales from around the world that depict how our forebears once understood the heavens.  The stories I have chosen focus on a few basic questions: Why do we believe we came from the sky?  Exactly how did we get her from there?  Where did we get the idea of putting gods in heaven?  What is so special about ‘up’?…Who needs the sky?  Today no administrator, clerk, accountant, lawyer, doctor, laborer, teacher, or technician would argue that being able to identify stars and constellations, knowing the phase of the moon, or the hour and position of sunrise has any relevance to their job description.  But had you been able to ask the ancient hunter, farmer, sailor, or astrologer–all quite respectable livelihoods in civilizations past–you would have heard a very different response.”  (From the Introduction)