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Title Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni / edited by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton
Published Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 392 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Mesoamerican worlds
Mesoamerican worlds.
Contents 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
Notes "This volume is the product of a symposium held in the fall of 2003 at Colgate University, New York"--Page [v]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Archaeoastronomy -- Congresses
Astronomy, Ancient -- Congresses
SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Archaeoastronomy
Astronomy, Ancient
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Aveni, Anthony F.
Ruggles, C. L. N. (Clive L. N.), editor.
Urton, Gary, 1946- editor.
LC no. 2007029308
ISBN 9780870819803
0870819801
9780870818875
0870818872