Skywatchers: A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient MexicoUniversity of Texas Press, 2001 M08 15 - 411 páginas Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico helped establish the field of archaeoastronomy, and it remains the standard introduction to this subject. Combining basic astronomy with archaeological and ethnological data, it presented a readable and entertaining synthesis of all that was known of ancient astronomy in the western hemisphere as of 1980. In this revised edition, Anthony Aveni draws on his own and others' discoveries of the past twenty years to bring the Skywatchers story up to the present. He offers new data and interpretations in many areas, including: The study of Mesoamerican time and calendrical systems and their unprecedented continuity in contemporary Mesoamerican culture The connections between Precolumbian religion, astrology, and scientific, quantitative astronomy The relationship between Highland Mexico and the world of the Maya and the state of Pan-American scientific practices The use of personal computer software for computing astronomical dataWith this updated information, Skywatchers will serve a new generation of general and scholarly readers and will be useful in courses on archaeoastronomy, astronomy, history of astronomy, history of science, anthropology, archaeology, and world religions. |
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... Cultures 321 Circum - Mediterranean Archaeoastronomy 322 Appendix A. An Analysis of the Pecked Cross Petroglyphs 329 Additional Selected Readings 334 Postscript 339 Notes 343 Bibliography 365 Index 395 Tables 1 . Old and New World ...
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Contenido
The Historical Ethnographic and Ethnological Background | 12 |
Contents | 38 |
Astronomy with the Naked Eye | 49 |
Zenith Passage Dates of the Sun for Observers | 67 |
Eclipses of the Sun and Moon during the 1980s | 76 |
Appendices | 96 |
Obliquity of the Ecliptic at Different Times in the Past | 103 |
Heliacal Rise and Set Phenomena | 110 |
Days per Given Number of Maya Calendric Units in | 137 |
Information Contained in the Calendar on Page 1 of | 151 |
Intervals and Cumulatives in the Eclipse Table of | 177 |
Scheme of the Ritual Calendar Portion of the Venus Table | 188 |
Arrangement of Material on Pages 43b44b of | 199 |
A The Problem of the Correlation of Maya | 207 |
Additional Selected Readings | 214 |
Appendix A An Analysis of the Pecked Cross Petroglyphs | 329 |
Heliacal RiseSet Events for Bright Stars Observed | 114 |
E Change of Direction of the Magnetic Compass with Time | 118 |
Typical Data Form for Transit Observations | 122 |
Additional Selected Readings Electronic Resources | 124 |
Postscript | 339 |
Bibliography | 365 |
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Skywatchers: A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico Anthony F. Aveni Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
Skywatchers: A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico Anthony F. Aveni Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |