Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni

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Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni

edited by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton

(Mesoamerican worlds)

University Press of Colorado, c2007

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"This volume is the product of a symposium held in the fall of 2003 at Colgate University, New York"--P. [v]

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The correlation between the colonial northern Zapotec and Gregorian calendars / John Justeson and David Tavárez
  • Kirchhoff's correlations and the third part of the Codex Borbonicus / Edward E. Calnek
  • When was the Dresden Codex Venus table efficacious? / Harvey M. Bricker and Victoria R. Bricker
  • Moon woman meets the stars : a new reading of the lunar almanacs in the Dresden Codex / Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock
  • Astronomical cycles in the imagery of Codex Borgia 29-46 / Susan Milbrath
  • The measure of man / Clemency Coggins
  • A multi-year Tukapu calendar / Gary Urton
  • Solar and lunar observations in the Inca calendar / R. Tom Zuidema
  • Cosmology, calendar, and temple orientations in ancient Hawai'i / Clive Ruggles
  • Calendrical cycles, the eighth day of the world, and the orientation of English churches / Stephen C. McCluskey
  • High fashion / Edwin C. Krupp

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