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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Clive L. N. Ruggles is a British astronomer, archaeologist and academic. He is the author of academic and popular works on the subject. In 1999, he was appointed professor of archaeoastronomy at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, when it is believed to have been the only appointed chair for archaeoastronomy among the world's universities. , he was Emeritus Professor at this university.
Clive Ruggles's Published Works
Published Works
- Astronomy in prehistoric Britain and Ireland (2000) (216)
- Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth (2005) (105)
- Spatial Analysis of Visible Areas from the Bronze Age Cairns of Mull (1997) (88)
- Chankillo: A 2300-Year-Old Solar Observatory in Coastal Peru (2007) (76)
- Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (2015) (68)
- The age of Stonehenge (2007) (56)
- Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention: A Thematic Study (2010) (56)
- Megalithic astronomy : a new archaeological and statistical study of 300 western Scottish sites (1984) (42)
- Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (40)
- Temples, Stars, and Ritual Landscapes: The Potential for Archaeoastronomy in Ancient Greece (2011) (38)
- Shifting Perceptions: Spatial Order, Cosmology, and Patterns of Deposition at Stonehenge (2001) (33)
- A system for identifying datasets for GIS users (1992) (33)
- Time and a Place: A luni-solar 'time-reckoner' from 8th millennium BC Scotland (2013) (30)
- Astronomy and Stonehenge (1997) (28)
- Whose Equinox? (1997) (28)
- Pushing back the frontiers or still running around the same circles? ‘Interpretative archaeoastronomy’ thirty years on (2011) (28)
- Astronomy and Society in Britain during the period 4000-1500 B.C. (1981) (27)
- Ritual and Landscape on the West Coast of Scotland: an Investigation of the Stone Rows of Northern Mull (1996) (25)
- A New Study of the Aberdeenshire Recumbent Stone Circles, 2 : Interpretation (1985) (25)
- Cosmology, calendars and society in Neolithic Orkney: a rejoinder to Euan MacKie (2000) (25)
- The case for formal methods in standards (1990) (21)
- Stonehenge's Avenue and ‘Bluestonehenge’ (2016) (20)
- Book-Review - Records in Stone - Papers in Memory of Alexander Thom (1988) (19)
- Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni (2007) (17)
- A New Study of the Aberdeenshire Recumbent Stone Circles, 1: Site Data (1984) (17)
- Indicated Declinations at the Callanish Megalithic Sites (1977) (16)
- STILE: a Hypermedia Approach to the Provision of a Flexible, Interdisciplinary Resource Base for Teaching and Learning (1995) (15)
- The Linear Settings of Argyll and Mull (1985) (14)
- A Reassessment of the High Precision Megalithic Lunar Sightlines, 2: Foresights and the Problem of Selection (1983) (13)
- The Pānānā or ‘Sighting Wall’ at Hanamauloa, Kahikinui, Maui: Archaeological Investigation of a Possible Navigational Monument (2013) (13)
- The social and ritual context of horizon astronomical observations at Chankillo (2011) (12)
- Records in stone (1988) (12)
- The North Mull Project (3): Prominent Hill Summits and Their Astronomical Potential (1992) (12)
- Computer Graphics and the Perception of Archaeological Information: Lies, Damned Statistics … and Graphics! (1988) (11)
- Indigenous Astronomies and Progress in Modern Astronomy (2010) (10)
- The Orientations of the Giza Pyramids and Associated Structures (2013) (10)
- Atlit-Yam: A Unique 9000 Year Old Prehistoric Village Submerged off the Carmel Coast, Israel – The SPLASHCOS Field School (2011) (2017) (10)
- The original Stonehenge? A dismantled stone circle in the Preseli Hills of west Wales (2021) (10)
- The North Mull Project (2): The Wider Astronomical Potential of the Sites (1991) (10)
- A Reassessment of the High Precision Megalithic Lunar Sightlines, 1: Backsights, Indicators and the Archaeological Status of the Sightlines (1982) (9)
- Megalithic astronomy: The last five years (1984) (9)
- Formal Methods in Standards (1990) (9)
- Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (9)
- The Borana Calendar: Some Observations (1987) (9)
- Accessing Outline Shape Information Efficiently within a Large Database II: Database Compaction Techniques (1988) (8)
- Astronomy and World Heritage (2010) (8)
- Calendars and Astronomy (2015) (8)
- Survey of three megalithic sites in Argyllshire (1975) (8)
- Desert labyrinth: lines, landscape and meaning at Nazca, Peru (2012) (8)
- Postscript: Still Our Equinox? (2017) (8)
- The Stone Rows of South-West Ireland: A First Reconnaissance (1994) (8)
- Ideology, ceremony and calendar in pre-contact Hawai'i: Astronomical alignment of a stone enclosure on O'Ahu suggests ceremonial use during the Makahiki season (2015) (7)
- The stone alignments of Argyll and Mull: a perspective of the statistical approach in archaeoastronomy. (1988) (7)
- Under one sky (2009) (7)
- STILE: the growth of a flexible, interdisciplinary resource base for open learning (1995) (7)
- Digital Terrain Modelling and Three-Dimensional Surface Graphics for Landscape and Site Analysis in Archaeology and Regional Planning (1988) (6)
- Abstract Data Structures for GIS Applications in Archaeology (1992) (6)
- Archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy : building bridges between cultures : proceedings of the 278th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union and 'Oxford IX' International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy, held in Lima, Peru, January 5-14, 2011 (2011) (6)
- The North Mull Project (1): Excavations at Glengorm 1987-88 (1989) (6)
- The North Mull Project (4): Excavations at Ardnacross 1989–91 (1993) (6)
- A New Archaeoastronomical Investigation of the Irish Axial-Stone Circles (1996) (6)
- Astronomy in Culture (1999) (5)
- Stonehenge and its Landscape (2015) (5)
- Methods for Finding Calendar Date Bands from Multiple-Valued Radiocarbon Calibration Curves (1988) (5)
- Basic Concepts of Positional Astronomy (2015) (5)
- Nature and Analysis of Material Evidence Relevant to Archaeoastronomy (2015) (5)
- Structuring Spatially Related Meta-Information for Effective Entry and Retrieval (1992) (5)
- Structuring image data within a multi-media information system (1992) (5)
- Archaeoastronomy in the Old World: MEGALITHIC ASTRONOMICAL SIGHTLINES: CURRENT REASSESSMENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS (1982) (5)
- Stone Rows of Three or More Stones in South-West Ireland (1996) (5)
- Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani (2019) (4)
- AN ASTRONOMICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE SEVENTEEN HUNDRED YEAR OLD NEKRESI FIRE TEMPLE IN THE EASTERN PART OF GEORGIA (2009) (4)
- Archaeoastronomy in Polynesia (2015) (4)
- Formal Methods in Standards - A Report from the BCS Working Group (1990) (4)
- ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LITERARY REFLECTIONS ON ANCIENT GEORGIAN ASTRONOMICAL HERITAGE (2008) (4)
- Best Practice for Evaluating the Astronomical Significance of Archaeological Sites (2015) (4)
- Long-Term Changes in the Appearance of the Sky (2015) (4)
- A Statistical Examination Of The Radial Line Azimuths At Nazca (1990) (4)
- The Interpretation of the Pecked Cross Symbols at Teotihuacan: A Methodological Note (1984) (4)
- Stellar Alignments - Identification and Analysis (2015) (3)
- Recumbent Stone Circles (2015) (3)
- Will the data drive the model? A further response to Euan MacKie (2002) (3)
- Astronomy before History (1997) (3)
- Phototypesetting and Desk-Top Publishing Systems in Archaeology (1988) (3)
- New Perspectives on Sutton Hoo: the Potential of 3-D Graphics (1988) (3)
- Tombs, Temples and Their Orientations: A New Perspective on Mediterranean Prehistory. By Michael Hoskin. (2004) (2)
- The structure of optically thick winds in classical novae (1979) (2)
- Establishing the credibility of archaeoastronomical sites (2015) (2)
- Mursi and Borana Calendars (2015) (2)
- Astronomical influences on prehistoric ritual architecture in North-Western Europe: The case of the stone rows (1995) (2)
- Inaugural Lecture (2000) (2)
- Towards a Formal Definition of GKS and other Graphic Standards (1988) (2)
- Correspondence Analysis As an Exploratory Technique for Stratigraphic Abundance Data (1988) (2)
- Multivariate Analysis of Lithic Industries: the Influence of Typology (1988) (2)
- Ancient Hawaiian Astronomy (2015) (2)
- Megalithic science and some Scottish site plans (1980) (2)
- Meta-Information Systems: a design study (1994) (2)
- The Moon and the crucifixion (1990) (2)
- Chapter 2: Later Prehistoric Europe (2011) (1)
- Watching the sky from the ushnu: the sukanka-like summit temple in Pueblo Viejo–Pucara (Lurin Valley, Peru) (2011) (1)
- Kukuipahu: A Unique Hawaiian Monumental Structure Utilizing Cut-and-Dressed Stone Masonry (2020) (1)
- Beyond Jodrell Bank: astronomical heritage (2019) (1)
- COMMISSION 41: HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY (2005) (1)
- DIVISION IX/COMMISSION 41/WORKING GROUP ASTRONOMY AND WORLD HERITAGE (2011) (1)
- THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE „RISCO CAÍDO AND THE SACRED MOUNTAINS OF GRAN CANARIA‟: A PARADIGMATIC PROPOSAL WITHIN UNESCO “ASTRONOMY AND WORLD HERITAGE” INITIATIVE (2019) (1)
- Geoglyphs of the Peruvian Coast (2015) (1)
- HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE IAU (2015) (1)
- Prehistoric astronomy: how far did it go? (1981) (1)
- The IAU's involvement in the Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative: achievements and challenges (2015) (1)
- Scottish Short Stone Rows (2015) (0)
- Archaeoastronomical anomalies (1981) (0)
- Skywatching in the Ancient World (2017) (0)
- COMMISSION 41: HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY (2010) (0)
- The Thirteen Towers of Chankillo: Archaeoastronomy and Social Organization at the First Solar Observatory in America (2006) (0)
- Pathways and Ceremonies: The Cursus Monuments of Britain and Ireland@@@Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland@@@Great Stone Circles (2002) (0)
- Urton provides a strong claim for considering this patterned mantle within a larger cultural tradition sensitive to the polyvalence of ritual knowledge. His co-editor Clive Ruggles takes on the architecture (2008) (0)
- Formal Methods in Standards: Four Case Studies (1990) (0)
- From Sherds to Blocks: Statistics and the Archaeological Sample (1988) (0)
- Book-Review - Megalithic Astronomy (1985) (0)
- Postscript : Stil l Our Equinox ? (2017) (0)
- Meeting contribution: Beyond Stonehenge: ancient astronomy at home and abroad (2002) (0)
- COMMISSION 41: HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY (2007) (0)
- The Development of a Bibliographic Information Retrieval System for Archaeological Reports Using Thesauri (1988) (0)
- IAU INTER-COMMISSION C1-C3-C4 WORKING GROUP ON ETHNOASTRONOMY AND INTANGIBLE ASTRONOMICAL HERITAGE: TRIENNIAL REPORT, 2018–2021 (2022) (0)
- IAU Commission 41: History of Astronomy (2012) (0)
- Arqueoastronomía en Polinesia (2006) (0)
- COMMISSION 41 WORKING GROUP on ASTRONOMY AND WORLD HERITAGE (2010) (0)
- Book Review: Archaeoastronomy in Overview: Exploring Ancient Skies: An Encyclopedic Survey of Archaeoastronomy (2007) (0)
- Computer and quantitative methods in archaeology / 1987 / ed. by C. L. N. Ruggles (1988) (0)
- Essay Review: Cross-Cultural Astronomy: Astronomy across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy (2004) (0)
- Current Practice: Issues and Guidelines (1990) (0)
- Essay Review: Sun, Moon, Stars, and Stonehenge: Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos (1999) (0)
- LIVE update : archaeological courseware using interactive video (2009) (0)
- The Hawaiian Temple System in Ancient Kahikinui and Kaupō, Maui (2019) (0)
- Session 21.4 – World Heritage and the Protection of Working Observatory Sites (2015) (0)
- Essay Review: Co-Operation: The Ideal and the Reality: Colloquio Internazionale: Archeologia e Astronomia (1995) (0)
- Monuments of the Giza Plateau (2015) (0)
- Focus Meeting 2, “Astronomical Heritage: Progressing the UNESCO–IAU Initiative” Introduction and overview (2015) (0)
- Report (2015) (0)
- On the Measurement of Duration in Nonliterate Communities (1979) (0)
- Hawaii and the Real-Time Evolution of Cultural Astronomy (2015) (0)
- Essay Review: Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmos, by John D. North (1999) (0)
- Book Review: Megalithic Rings by A. and A. S. Thom and A. Burl (1982) (0)
- The Formal Methods in Standards Working Group (1990) (0)
- Megalithic points (1983) (0)
- Stonehenge for the 1990s (1996) (0)
- The Minor Standstill of the Moon and Stonehenge (1997) (0)
- Formal Methods: the Background (1990) (0)
- Different Categories of Astronomical Heritage: Issues and Challenges (2012) (0)
- 1 Astronomy before history (2004) (0)
- DIVISION XII: UNION-WIDE ACTIVITIES (2011) (0)
- Structures for GIS applications in archaeology (2009) (0)
- Prehistoric astronomy: Evidence from a new site (1985) (0)
- Megalithic science: Ancient mathematics and astronomy in Northwest Europe: By Douglas C. Heggie. 1982. 256 pp., illustrated. London: Thames and Hudson (1983) (0)
- Standards: the Background (1990) (0)
- How Waun Mawn stone circle was designed and built, and when the Bluestones arrived at Stonehenge: a response to Darvill (2022) (0)
- Possible New Solstitial Sightline in the Stonehenge Landscape (2021) (0)
- Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (IAU S278) (2011) (0)
- Hawaiian temples and their orientations: issues of method and interpretation (2015) (0)
- CLIVE RUGGLES For a background on the development of interactive videodisc technology the reader is referred to Martlew (2009) (0)
- Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Polynesian star names (2015) (0)
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