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Archaeoastronomy in pre-Columbian America / edited by Anthony F. Aveni.
- Title
- Archaeoastronomy in pre-Columbian America / edited by Anthony F. Aveni.
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, c1975.
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- Description
- xv, 436 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
- Summary
- Written by leading specialists, the papers in this volume explore the newly developed interdisciplinary field of archaeoastronomy. Their value is enhanced by extensive citation of data for that part of America north of Panama. They provide an excellent introduction to the growing field of archaeoastronomy. Three broad, interlocking topics are discussed: early American rock art in the southwestern United States, astronomical orientations of buildings, and native American calendars.
- Alternative Title
- Archaeoastronomy in preColumbian America
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Note
- Papers presented before the archaeoastronomy section of the joint scientific meeting of Mexico and the United States convened in Mexico City, June 1973, organized by Mexico's Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [395]-421.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Ignacio Bernal -- Introduction / Anthony F. Aveni -- Native astronomy in Mesoamerica / Michael D. Coe -- The astronomical record in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico / Ray A. Williamson, Howard J. Fisher, Abigail F. Williamson, and Clarion Cochran -- Possible rock art records of the Crab Nebula supernova in the western United States / John C. Brandt, Stephen P. Maran, Ray Williamson, Robert S. Harrington, Clarion Cochran, Muriel Kennedy, William J. Kennedy, and Von Del Chamberlain -- A thousand years of the Pueblo sun-moon-star calendar / Florence Hawley Ellis -- Early Navajo astronomical pictographs in Canyon de Chelly, northeastern Arizona, U.S.A. / Claude Britt, Jr. -- Star-patterns in Great Basin petroglyphs / Dorothy Mayer -- Astroarchaeology: the unwritten evidence / Gerald S. Hawkins -- Possible astronomical orientations in ancient Mesoamerica / Anthony F. Aveni -- A scheme of probable astronomical projections in Mesoamerican architecture / Horst Hartung -- The nature and nurture of archaeoastronomical studies / Jonathan E. Reyman -- Effigy mounds and stellar representation: a comparison of Old World and New World alignment schemes / Thaddeus M. Cowan -- The use of eclipse data to determine the Maya correlation number / Nancy Kelly Owen -- The solar eclipse warning table in the Dresden codex / Charles H. Smiley -- Planetary data on Caracol Stela 3 / David H. Kelley -- A new astronomical interpretation of the four ballcourt panels at Tajin, Mexico / Carmen Cook de Leonard -- An astronomical calendar in a portion of the Madrid codex / Marion Popenoe Hatch -- Olmec mosaic pendant / Alexander Marshack -- Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy so far / Elizabeth Chesley Baity.
- ISBN
- 0292703104
- LCCN
- ^^^74017622^
- OCLC
- 1654706
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library