Foreword

Part I. Alexander Thom's Life and Work: 1. A personal note about my late father, Alexander Thom Archie Thom

2. A personal appreciation of Professor Alexander Thom Hans Motz

3. The career and publications of Alexander Thom Compiled by Archie Thom

4. A catalogue of the Alexander Thom archive held in the National Monuments Record of Scotland Lesley Ferguson

5. The metrology and geometry of Megalithic Man Alexander Thom and Archie Thom

6. Megalithic landscape Chris Jennings

Part II. Research Papers: Archaeological Research Inspired by Alexander Thom: 7. 'Without sharp north ...' Alexander Thom and the great stone circles of Cumbria Aubrey Burl

8. Investigating the prehistoric solar calendar Euan MacKie

9. The stone alignments of Argyll and Mull: a perspective on the statistical approach in archaeoastronomy Clive Ruggles

10. A cluster analysis of astronomical orientations Jon Patrick and Peter Freeman

11. Megalithic observatories in Britain: real or imagined? Ray Norris

12. The stone rows of northern Scotland Leslie Myatt

13. Stones in the landscape of Brittany Pierre-Roland Giot

14. The orientation of visibility from the chambered cairns of Eday, Orkney David Fraser

15. The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Graham Ritchie

16. The geometry of some megalithic rings Ronald Curtis

17. Megalithic compound ring geometry Thaddeus Cowan

18. The metrology of cup-and-ring carvings Alan Davis

19. Megalithic Callanish Margaret Ponting

20. The Thom paradigm in the Americas: the case of the cross-circle designs Anthony Aveni

21. Light in the temples Ed Krupp

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