Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy: A Reader with CommentaryAnthony F. Aveni University Press of Colorado, 2008 - 826 páginas Gazing into the black skies from the Anasazi observatory at Chimney Rock or the Castillo Pyramid in the Maya ruins of Chichén Itzá, a modern visitor might wonder what ancient stargazers looked for in the skies and what they saw. Once considered unresearchable, these questions now drive cultural astronomers who draw on written and unwritten records and a constellation of disciplines to reveal the wonders of ancient and contemporary astronomies. Cultural astronomy, first called archaeoastronomy, has evolved at ferocious speed since its genesis in the 1960s, with seminal essays and powerful rebuttals published in far-flung, specialized journals. Until now, only the most closely involved scholars could follow the intellectual fireworks. In Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy, Anthony Aveni, one of cultural astronomy's founders and top scholars, offers a selection of the essays that built the field, from foundational works to contemporary scholarship. |
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Archaeoastronomy Establishing a Method and Applying | 3 |
Astronomical Alignment of the Big Horn Medicine WheelJohn | 19 |
Geometry and Astronomy in Prehistoric OhioRay Hively | 39 |
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