Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures

Compares contemporary timekeeping methods and related cultural perspectives to those of seminomadic tribes and classical civilizations, tracing the influence of calendars, datebooks, clocks, and other means of measuring humankind's most valuable commodity.

• Author
• Anthony F. Aveni

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 332

• Publisher
• University Press of Colorado

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780870816727

• Genres
• history, science, archaeology

• Release date
• 2002