| Description |
xvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Michael D. Coe -- Introduction / Anthony F. Aveni -- Concepts of positional astronomy employed in ancient Mesoamerican architecture / Anthony F. Aveni -- Mesoamerican calendrics as evidence of astronomical activity / Sharon L. Gibbs -- Astronomical signs in the codices Bodley and Selden / Horst Hartung -- Palenque: the house of the dying sun / Linda Schele -- Maya astronomical tables and inscriptions / David H. Kelley -- Current astronomical practices among the Maya / Judith A. Remington -- The date-reaching mechanism in the Venus table of the Dresden codex / Michael P. Closs -- Copan Altar Q: the Maya astronomical congress of A.D. 763? / John B. Carlson -- Ancient Maya architecture and planning: possibilities and limitations for astronomical studies / Horst Hartung -- Native astronomy and the Plains Caddoans / Waldo R. Wedel -- Medicine wheels and Plains Indian astronomy / John A. Eddy -- Rock art representations of the A.D. 1054 supernova: a progress report / John C. Brandt and Ray A. Williamson -- An examination of Miller's hypothesis / Dorothy Mayer -- Anasazi solar observatories / Ray A. Williamson, Howard J. Fisher, and Donnel O'Flynn -- The Inca calendar / R.T. Zuidema |
| Analysis |
Pre-Columbian America Astronomy |
| Notes |
Edited versions of papers presented at a symposium held at Colgate University, 23-26 September 1975 |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [265]-278 |
| Subject |
Indian astronomy -- Congresses.
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Indians -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
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Maya astronomy -- Congresses.
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Astronomy -- history.
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Indians, North American.
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Indians, South American.
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| SUBJECT |
Americas -- Antiquities http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004221 -- Congresses.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Aveni, Anthony F.
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| LC no. |
76053569 |
| ISBN |
0292755112 |
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