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Visions of the sky : archaeological and ethnological studies of California Indian astronomy
- Title
- Visions of the sky : archaeological and ethnological studies of California Indian astronomy / Robert A. Schiffman, editor.
- Publication
- Salinas, CA : Coyote Press, 1988.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Schiffman, Robert A.
- Description
- xiv, 172 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
- Series Statement
- Coyote Press archives of California prehistory ; no. 16
- Uniform Title
- Archives of California prehistory ; no. 16.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- Foreword: Being There / E. C. Krupp -- Introduction / Robert A. Schiffman -- The nature of California Indian astronomy / Travis Hudson -- Sapaksi : archaeoastronomical investigation of an inland Chumash site / Tom Hoskinson and R. M. Cooper -- Sky games in California petroglyphs / Dorothy Mayer -- Solar eclipse dating of Chumash rock art / Katherine Bracher -- The "classical assumption" in light of Chumash astronomy / Travis Hudson -- Astronomy, myth, and ritual in the west San Fernando Valley / John Romani ... [et al.] -- CA-KER-17 : a possible Tübatulabal winter solstice observatory / V. J. Harper-Slaboszewicz and R. M. Cooper -- A Native American solstice observatory / Robert A. Schiffman -- Ring of pictured stones : astronomical connotations of a rock art site in the eastern Mojave Desert / Beverley S. Trupe, John M. Rafter, and Wilson G. Turner.
- Call Number
- HBC 94-4326
- ISBN
- 1555670504 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 18696123
- NYPG94-B18828
- Title
- Visions of the sky : archaeological and ethnological studies of California Indian astronomy / Robert A. Schiffman, editor.
- Imprint
- Salinas, CA : Coyote Press, 1988.
- Series
- Coyote Press archives of California prehistory ; no. 16Archives of California prehistory ; no. 16.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographies.
- Added Author
- Schiffman, Robert A.
- Research Call Number
- HBC 94-4326