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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809654603321

Titolo

Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni / / edited by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-87081-980-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Mesoamerican Worlds : From the Olmecs to the Danzantes

Disciplina

520

Soggetti

Arqueoastronomia - Amèrica

Astronomia antiga

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editors' Note; Introduction; 1: The Correlation between the Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian Calendars; 2: Kirchhoff's Correlations and the Third Part of the Codex Borbonicus; 3: When Was the Dresden Codex Venus Table Efficacious?; 4: Moon Woman Meets the Stars; 5: Astronomical Cycles in the Imagery of Codex Borgia 29-46; 6: The Measure of Man; 7: A Multi-Year Tukapu Calendar; 8: Solar and Lunar Observations in the Inca Calendar; 9: Cosmology, Calendar, and Temple Orientations in Ancient Hawai'

10: Calendrical Cycles, the Eighth Day of the World, and the Orientation of English Churches11: High Fashion; Contributors; Index