Astronomy, Cosmology and Landscape

The proceedings of the 1998 Societe Europeenne pour l'Astronomie dans la Culture conference held in Dublin with 15 papers, all in English, covering various periods and parts of the world; Palaeolithic Europe, Minoan and Mycenaean Crete, pre-Hispanic Canary Islands, Greece and Rome and the Americas. Although the overall theme of the conference was landscape perception, many papers also addressed related issues of cosmology, symbolism, belief systems, mythology, studies of constellations, folklore and related ritual practices.