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Sundial, calendar and Khmer temples

Astro-archaeology = archaeo-astronomy = Astroarchaeology = archaeoastronomy

Link & literature page

 

Links:


Sundials

North American Sundial Society

Sundials on the Internet

Swensen Sundial at Wisconsin University

Daniel Roths link page

Italian linkpage about sundials

German sundial page

The Sundial Bridge in Redding, CA

The Disney Sundial Project

Ancient Chinese Sundial

 

Astronomy

Physics and Astronomy by Juergen Giesen

The U. S. Naval Observatory

Naval Oceanography Portal

Equation of Time in figures

Calendar Zone

Night Sky This Week: What's up in this week's night sky. Information on the planets, comets, meteors, asteroids and the deep sky. Maps and pictures. By Emil Neata.

 

Software about astronomy

Reinier C, Ott's ASTRONOM 10.0 computes the celestial sphere of the Sun, Moon and planets from 1 A.D. to 3500 A.D. – my favorite program!

The Shadows program generates sundial designs to any location.

Yano's online Pancanga for dating Khmer inscriptions based on the Surya Siddhanta.

 

Equipment for field-research (GPS-device, camera, laptop, mobile telephone, and motor bike)

     
2004: Garmin GPS12   2007: Garmin GPSmap60   2008: Garmin GPSmap60CSx   2009: Garmin Nuvifone?

GPS: Garmin GPS-devices are in Thailand imported, distributed, and sold by ESRI Thailand in Bangkok.

 

Archeology

Interactive Map for Archaeological Khmer Sites CISARK and their link page

Interactive website about ancient sites in NE-Thailand: EcoNETVIS

Origins of Angkor Home Page

Art of Cambodia about Khmer temples in Cambodia, by Eleanor Mannika

Banteay Srey, the pearl of Khmer art.

Apsaras - the Angkor International Documentation Center

Cham Hindu art (Vietnam)

NASA satelite image of the area around the city of Angkor, Cambodia.

NASA and remote sensing at Angkor, Cambodia

NASA and remote sensing used for archaeological research in America.

Archaeology Directories: http://www.academicinfo.net/archy.html

Dating Stonehenge

Tom Cravens anthropology linkpage

3d Modelling & Animation, Angkor Wat, Neak Pean and West Mebon

Khmer TimeMap (ACL, 2003)

Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association: BIPPA

 

Archaeoastronomy

The Center for Archaeoastronomy 

The International Society for Archaeoloastronomy and Astronomy in Culture ISAAC

Denver Astronomical Society's bookstore

History of Astronomy: Topics: Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy and Ethnoastronomy from. Links from Bonn University.

Archaeogeodecy a key to prehistory, by James Q Jacobs

 

Various

Denmark: Archaeoastronomy in Denmark by Erling Poulsen

Egypt: by the astronomer E.C. Krupp. The Sphinx Blinks

India: Vedic House

Indus Valley Civilisation: Script and names of stars from the Harappa website

Ireland: Mythical Ireland

Ireland: The winter solstice phenomenon at Newgrange: An accident or a design?

Japan: Lunar Calendar Steve Renshaw and Saori Ihara's Astronomy in Papan Home Page

Indonesia: In Pursuit of Sacred Science - An architectural survey of Borobudur, by Mark Long

North America: Fajada Butte solar marking site, probably constructed by ancient Pueblo Indians, that records the equinoxes and solstices

Early Clocks

Sundials, Mean Time, and the Equation of Time

 

Web-directory: Thailand : History, Traditions, Culture and Society - Museums: ThaiWebsites.com

 

Literature
 
Apte, S. S. Vedic astronomy & mythology, 1978
Aymonier, Etienne Khmer Heritage in the Old Siamese Provinces of Cambodia, Bangkok, 1999
Aymonier, Etienne Khmer Heritage in  Thailand - with special emphasis on temples, inscriptions and etymology. Bangkok, 1999
Bentley, John Hindu Astronomy. Osnabrück. 1970
Bose, D.M., Sen S.N.
 & Subbaratapra, B.V.
A Concise History of Science in India. New Delhi. 1971
Briggs, L.P. The Ancient Khmer Empire, 1951, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, n.s. 41, Philadelphia.
Burges, Ebenezer Surya-Siddhanta: A Text-book of Hindu Astronomy. With notes. India 1858
Chakravarti, Adhir

The Sdok Kak Thom inscription, Calcutta, 1978

Chandler, David 
& Mabbet, Ian
The Khmer. Oxford. 1995
Chandler, David P. A History of Cambodia. Chiang Mai. 1993
Chatterji, Bijan Raj Indian Cultural Influence in Cambodia. Calcutta 1964.
Clark, William Eugene
The Aryabhatiya of Arayabhata, an Ancient Indian Work on Mathematics and Astronomy, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 1930.
Coedes, George A New Inscription from Funan, Journal of the Greater India Society, 4, 1937. PP. 117-121
Coedes, George

Inscription du cambodge, 8 vol. 1937-66

Coedes, George The Indianised States of Southeast Asia, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Coedes, George Angkor – An introduction, Oxford, 1993
Evans James The history and practice of ancient astronomy, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998

Finot, L., Parmentier H.,   Goloubew V.

A Guide to the Temple of Banteay Srei at Angkor, 2001

Forman, B.,  Deneck M.M.

Indian sculpture masterpieces of Indian, Khmer and Cham art photographs, Forman Werner 1963
Fredrick, W. Bunce An encyclopaedia of Hindu deities, demi-gods, godlings, demons, and heroes with special focus on iconographic attributes. Illustration by G.X. Capdi, 2000
Freeman, Michael A guide to KHMER TEMPLES in Thailand and Laos, River Books guide, Bangkok

Freeman, Michael
& Claude Jacques

Ancient Angkor, River Books guide, Bangkok 1999
Freeman, Michael That Phanom Rung, River Books guide, Bangkok
Gupta, T. K. Das Der Vajra. Wiesbaden. 1775

Higham, Charles
& Rachanee Thorarat

Prehistoric Thailand, River Books, Bangkok 1998
Higham, Charles The Civilization of Angkor, London, 2002
Higham, Charles The Archeology of Mainland S.E.Asia from 10.000 to the Fall of Angkor

Hodson, F. R., Kendall, D. G.

The place of astronomy in the ancient worlda joint symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1974

Huntington, Susan L. The Art of Ancient India. Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, New York - Tokyo, 1985.
Jacob, J.M. Pre-Angkor Cambodia: Evidence from the inscriptions in Khmer concerning the common people and their environment, R.B. and Watson, E (eds), Early South East Asia, pp. 406-26, Oxford University Press, 1979, Kuala Lumpur
Jacques, C. Angkor, Cities and Temples, River Books, Bangkok, 1997
Kay, G. R. Hindu Astronomy, Ancient Science of the Hindus,  New Delhi. India, 1981.
Keyes, Charles F. The Golden Peninsular. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., N.Y. 1977
Krum silapakorn

Phaenthii thang borankhadi changwat buriram, Thai, 2532 (1989)

Krum silapakorn Prasat muang tam, Thai, 2540 (1997)
Krupp, Edwin C. Echoes of the Ancient Skies. The Astronomy of  lost Civilizations. Oxford University Press. New York. Oxford. 1983
Majumdar, R.C. Champa history & culture of an Indian colonial kingdom in the Far East 2nd.-16th century A.D., Delhi, 1985
Majumdar, R.C. Inscriptions of Champa
Majumdar, R.C. Kambuja-Desa or An ancient Hindu colony in Cambodia, Philadelphia. 1980
Moore, E. 
& Siribhadda, S.
Palaces of the Gods: Khmer art and Architecture in Thailand. Bangkok, 1992
Mollerup, Asger That Phanom Rung: New Light on an Ancient Site. Article in Article in Bangkok Post, March 23rd 2000.
Mazzeo, D.,  Antonini, C.S. Monuments of Civilization: Ancient Cambodia, Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1978

Mazzeo, D.,  Antonini, C.S.

Ancient Cambodia, London: Cassel, 1978
Moore, E + Freeman, A. Circular Cites at Angkor: A Radar Scattering Model. Journal of Siam Society, 85: 1998. PP 107-119

Moore, E. & Siribhadda, S.

Palaces of the Gods: Khmer art and Architecture in Thailand. River Books, Bangkok, 1992
Moron, Eleanor Angkor Wat – Time, Space, and kingship, University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu, USA, 2000

Moron, Eleanor & Warren Mich

Configurations of Time and Space at Angkor Wat
Parmentier, Henry Cham Sculpture, 2001
Phumichit Ruangdet

Prapheni khuen khau phanom rung. … Thai, Buriram 2543 (2000)

Pingree, David Jyotihsastra, Astral and Mathematical Literature, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1981.
Ray, Nihar-Ranjan Sanskrit Buddhist ib Burma, Amsterdam, 1936
Riboud, Marc Angkor – the Serenity of Buddhism
Rooney, Dawn Angkor – an Introduction to the Temples. Hong Kong, 1994
Roveda, V Khmer Mythology: Secret of Angkor. Bangkok, 1997
Sankalia H. D. Pre-historic art in India, New Delhi, 1978
Sastri, Bijan Raj

Indian Cultural Influence in Cambodia, New Delhi, 1964

Sastri, H. Kristna South Indian Images of Gods and Goddesses. New Delhi. 1974.
Sastri, Pundit Bapu Deva 
& Wilkinson, L.
The Súrya Siddhanta, or AN ANCIENT SYSTEM OF HINDU ASTRONOMY followed by the SIDDHÁNTA SIROMANI. Calcutta 1861, reprinted in Amsterdam 1974. Philo Press
Sen, S.N. & Shukla K.S. History of Astronomy in India, Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, 1985.
Sharan, Mahesh Kumar Studies in Sanskrit Inscriptions of Ancient Cambodia. New Delhi 1974
Smith, David The dance of Siva religion, art and poetry in South India, 1996
Smith, R. B. + Watson, W. Early South East Asia : essays in archaeology, history and historical geography. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979
Staal, Frits Agni the Vedic ritual of the fire altar, Delhi, 1986
Swarup, G., A. K. Bag, and K. S. Shukla History of Oriental Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Proceedings of an International Astronomical Union colloquium no.91, Cambridge University Press, 1987
Takasuko, J. / I-Tsing A record of the Buddhist religion as practised in India and the Malay archipelago (A.D. 671-695) / Transl. by J. Takakusu, Delhi, 1966
Tapan Kumar Das Gupta Der Vajra: eine vedische Waffe, Das Gupta Tapan Kumar vom Seminar Kultur und Geschichte Indiens Universität Hamburg, 1975
Vickery, M What and where was Chenla? in Bizot, F. (ed) Recherches Nouvelles sur le Cambodge, pp. 197-212, EFEO, Paris, 1994
Wheatley, P Nagara and Commandery: Origins of the Southeast Asian Urban Traditions, University of Chicago, Department of Geography, Research Paper, 1983, pp. 207-208
Zefferys, M.L., Zefferys, S. + Stone, J. Heaven and Empire, Bangkok, 2001
Zhou Daguan The customs of Cambodia. Bangkok, 1992
Zimmer, H. Indian art and the art of Ceylon, Central and South-East Asia, London : Octopus Books , 1972
Zimmer, H. The art of Indian Asia : its mythology and transformations, Princeton Univ. Press , 1983

 

Accommodation and tourism:

The authors favourite base in That Phanom Rung area is P California Inter Hostel in Nang Rong, Buriram Province, North-East Thailand (Isan).

Another website by the same author:


PHRASEBOOK
Thai-Isan-Lao Phrasebook
with MP3 sound tracks on CD-ROM.

The first and only book of its kind describing three Tai-Kadai languages comparatively using IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).
Part I: Phrases.
Part II: Word lists.
Part III: Grammar by samples.
Part IV: Manuals in reading, writing, and tonal determination.
Appendixes: Alphabets compared, linguistic history etc.
Sound-tracks in 3 languages on CD-ROM read by local residents from Bangkok (Thai), Maha Sarakham (Isan), and Vientiane (Laos P.D.R) covering all texts in the book. Format: MP3. Duration: 6 hours.
 

 

INDEX

02 September 2009

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