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