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"A Little History of Astro-Archaeology" by John Michell

Introduction

Part One

• An idea in its infancy

• Sir Norman Lockyer in Egypt

• Stonehenge

• Contemporaries and followers of Lockyer

• Objections to Lockyer

• The Old Straight Track

• 'Prehistoric nationalism' : the strange history of astro-archaeology in Germany

• Stonehenge 'decoded'

• Alexander Thom and the modern revival of astro-archaeology

• Lines across landscapes

• Mystical approaches

Part Two

• Sunlight, shadows and moonbeams

• Lines and alignments in South America

• Conclusions : astro-archaeology as geomancy

Bibliography

List of illustrations

Index

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