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:
With 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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... haab or 1,508 haab ( 1,507 tropical years ) . It is not known for certain whether the Maya recognized such a cycle , though Lounsbury ( 1978 , p . 807 ) regards it as quite plausible and we ( Aveni and Calnek 1999 ) believe the Aztecs ...
... haab , which seems so discordant with the Inscriptions laws of nature . Here is an excellent example of calendrical ethnocentrism : our fixation with the solar - based calendar , installed in our Western calen- dar during the early ...
... haab ) ahead of the haab count . This may be expressed by the equation ( 3,856.0273 +2.5479 ) haab = 3,846.0273 tropical years , or 1 tropical year = 1.0007 haab = 365.2550 days , a difference of less than 20 minutes from our modern ...
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The Historical Ethnographic and Ethnological Background | 12 |
Contents | 38 |
Astronomy with the Naked Eye | 49 |
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