Skywatching in the ancient world : new perspectives in cultural astronomy : studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni / edited by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton. - xxiii, 392 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas - Mesoamerican worlds .

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

Incluye bibliografía.

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

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Astronomía antigua.--Congresos, conferencias, etc.
Astronomía arqueológica.--Congresos, conferencias, etc.

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