This is a repository of public-domain resources relating to cultural astronomy (archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy)
featuring freely available ebooks and factsheets, supplementary online materials for printed books, contents lists of encyclopedic works, and other relevant resources
Supplementary online materials for Stonehenge: Sighting the Sun (2024), by Clive Ruggles and Amanda Chadburn
Supplementary online materials for Heiau, ‘Āina, Lani: the Hawaiian Temple System in Ancient Kahikinui and Kaupō, Maui (2019), by Patrick V. Kirch and Clive Ruggles
Full contents of the Springer Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (2014); the articles themselves are available at Springer Link
Information about the first ICOMOS–IAU Thematic Study on the Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy (2010), together with contents list and free downloadable PDF copy (provided on the Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy)
Information about the second ICOMOS–IAU Thematic Study on the Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy (2017), together with contents list and free downloadable PDF copy (provided on the Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy)
List of articles from Clive Ruggles’ 2005 book Ancient Astronomy: an Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth, with updated articles to follow soon
Publications by Ocarina Books, including purchase information for recent titles and free downloadable PDFs of some older ones
View or download a copy of the factsheet on Stonehenge and Ancient Astronomy produced by the Royal Astronomical Society’s Astronomical Heritage Committee for the International Year of Astronomy in 2009
Coming soon
Full contents list of the General History of Astronomy, published in various books and journals between 1984 and 2009
A collection of several thousand images relating to cultural astronomy for reference, non-commercial use or purchase
