Research Catalog

Title

Astronomy and ceremony in the prehistoric Southwest, revisited : collaborations in cultural astronomy / edited by Gregory E. Munson, Todd W. Bostwick, and Tony Hull.

Publication

Albuquerque : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Munson, Gregory E.
• Bostwick, Todd W.
• Hull, Tony, 1943-
• Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, publisher and issuing body.
• Conference on Archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest (2nd : 2011 : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology)

Description

xxii, 163 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Anthropological papers / Maxwell Museum of Anthropology ; No. 9

Uniform Title

Anthropological papers (Maxwell Museum of Anthropology) ; no. 9.

Subject

• Indian astronomy > Southwest, New
• Ethnoastronomy > Southwest, New
• Archaeoastronomy > Southwest, New
• Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Rites and ceremonies
• Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Antiquities
• Antiquities
• Archaeoastronomy
• Ethnoastronomy
• Indian astronomy
• Indians of North America > Antiquities
• Indians of North America > Rites and ceremonies
• Southwest, New > Antiquities
• Southwest, New

Note

• Selected papers from the 2011 Conference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest (CAASW), held June 16-18, 2011, in the Hibben Center at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. (Preface and Society for Cultural Anthropology in the American Southwest's website)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Dedication -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface / Gregory E. Munson -- Acknowledgments / Tony Hull -- Foreword / W. James Judge -- Under Southwest skies : origin and evolution of archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest / E.C. Krupp -- The Morning Star/rain/maize complex in the American Southwest / Polly Schaafsma -- The enigmas of Fajada Butte / J. McKim Malville -- Heaven on earth : the Chaco North Road / James M. Copeland -- Gobernador Knob and Huerfano Mesa : a Navajo landscape / David M. Brugge -- An archaeological and geological study of three shadow-casting stones at the V Bar V rock art site in northern Arizona / Todd W. Bostwick, Paul A. Lindberg, and Kenneth J. Zoll -- New evidence of Tewa-style moiety organization in the Mesa Verde region, Colorado / Robert L. Bernhart and Scott G. Ortman -- A proposed solar/lunar observation station at Salmon Pueblo / Brooks M. Marshall and Larry L. Baker -- Petroglyph based archaeoastronomy sites in the northern San Juan region of Colorado / Virgina Wolf and Edward Wheeler -- Using architectural documentation to assess architecture and features associated with astronomical observations : case studies at Mesa Verde National Park / Gregory E. Munson -- Solar/lunar archaeological alignments : a method of evaluating a set of observations for the likelihood of false positives / Tony Hull, Carol Armbruster, and Elizabeth Jewell -- Cultural astronomy in the field / Jarita Holbrook -- Discussion: Looking up and down and asking how and why : challenges for modern archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest / Gregory E. Munson, Todd W. Bostwick, and Tony Hull, editors.

Call Number

JFF 14-1036

ISBN

• 9780912535135
• 091253513X

OCLC

877853063

Title

Astronomy and ceremony in the prehistoric Southwest, revisited : collaborations in cultural astronomy / edited by Gregory E. Munson, Todd W. Bostwick, and Tony Hull.

Publisher

Albuquerque : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Anthropological papers / Maxwell Museum of Anthropology ; No. 9

Anthropological papers (Maxwell Museum of Anthropology) ; no. 9.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Munson, Gregory E., editor.

Bostwick, Todd W., editor.

Hull, Tony, 1943- editor.

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, publisher and issuing body.

Conference on Archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest (2nd : 2011 : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology)

Research Call Number

JFF 14-1036