|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (417 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Mesoamerican Worlds : From the Olmecs to the Danzantes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Arqueoastronomia - Amèrica |
Astronomia antiga |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|