Skywatching in the Ancient World
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Skywatching in the Ancient World

New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy

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eBook - PDF

Skywatching in the Ancient World

New Perspectives in Cultural Astronomy

About this book

Compiled in honor of Anthony F. Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, Skywatching in the Ancient World offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the history of science and of religions.

This collection's wide range of outstanding scholarship reveals that cultural astronomy has come into its own. The diverse topics addressed by the contributors include the correlation between Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian calendars, the period of use of the Dresden Codex Venus table and the significance of the Lunar Almanacs that precede it, a new interpretation of an Inka tapestry mantle as a commemorative calendar, temple orientations in Hawai'i and church orientations in Medieval England, and the connection in cultural imagery between astronomers (science) and wizards (magic).

Contributors include: Harvey M. Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, Edward E. Calnek, Clemency Coggins, John Justeson, Edwin C. Krupp, Stephen C. McCluskey, Susan Milbrath, Clive Ruggles, David Tavárez, Barbara Tedlock, Dennis Tedlock, Gary Urton, and R. Tom Zuidema. Mesoamerican Worlds Series

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Editors’ Note
  6. Introduction
  7. 1: The Correlation between the Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian Calendars
  8. 2: Kirchhoff’s Correlations and the Third Part of the Codex Borbonicus
  9. 3: When Was the Dresden Codex Venus Table Efficacious?
  10. 4: Moon Woman Meets the Stars
  11. 5: Astronomical Cycles in the Imagery of Codex Borgia 29–46
  12. 6: The Measure of Man
  13. 7: A Multi-Year Tukapu Calendar
  14. 8: Solar and Lunar Observations in the Inca Calendar
  15. 9: Cosmology, Calendar, and Temple Orientations in Ancient Hawai‘
  16. 10: Calendrical Cycles, the Eighth Day of the World, and the Orientation of English Churches
  17. 11: High Fashion
  18. Contributors
  19. Index