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Visions of the sky : archaeological and ethnological studies of California Indian astronomy / Robert A. Schiffman, editor.
- 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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- Additional Authors
- Schiffman, Robert A.
- Description
- xiv, 171 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
- Series Statement
- Archives of California prehistory ; no. 16
- Uniform Title
- Archives of California prehistory ; no. 16.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1555670504 (pbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library