Ethnoastronomy And Archaeoastronomy In The American Tropics PDF Download
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Author | : Anthony F. Aveni |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Science |
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Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Archaeoastronomy |
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Download Archaeoastronomy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Beth Ann Collea |
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Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : America |
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Download Supplement to A Selected Bibliography on Native American Astronomy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Anne S. Dowd |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1457193752 |
Download Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cosmology, Calendars, and Horizon-Based Astronomy in Ancient Mesoamerica is an interdisciplinary tour de force that establishes the critical role astronomy played in the religious and civic lives of the ancient peoples of Mesoamerica. Providing extraordinary examples of how Precolumbian peoples merged ideas about the cosmos with those concerning calendar and astronomy, the volume showcases the value of detailed examinations of astronomical data for understanding ancient cultures. The volume is divided into three sections: investigations into Mesoamerican horizon-based astronomy, the cosmological principles expressed in Mesoamerican religious imagery and rituals related to astronomy, and the aspects of Mesoamerican calendars related to archaeoastronomy. It also provides cutting-edge research on diverse topics such as records of calendar and horizon-based astronomical observation (like the Dresden and Borgia codices), iconography of burial assemblages, architectural alignment studies, urban planning, and counting or measuring devices. Contributors—who are among the most respected in their fields— explore new dimensions in Mesoamerican timekeeping and skywatching in the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacano, Zapotec, and Aztec cultures. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of anthropology, archaeology, art history, and astronomy.
Author | : Liz Henty |
Publisher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2022-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1789257883 |
Download Exploring Archaeoastronomy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Archaeoastronomy and archaeology are two distinct fields of study which examine the cultural aspect of societies, but from different perspectives. Archaeoastronomy seeks to discover how the impact of the skyscape is materialized in culture, by alignments to celestial events or sky-based symbolism; yet by contrast, archaeology's approach examines all aspects of culture, but rarely considers the sky. Despite this omission, archaeology is the dominant discipline while archaeoastronomy is relegated to the sidelines. The reasons for archaeoastronomys marginalized status may be found by assessing its history. For such an exploration to be useful, archaeoastronomy cannot just be investigated in a vacuum but must be contextualized by exploring other contemporaneous developments, particularly in archaeology. On the periphery of both, there are various strands of esoteric thought and pseudoscientific theories which paint an alternative view of monumental remains and these also play a part in the background. The discipline of archaeology has had an unbroken lineage from the late 19th century to the present. On the other hand, archaeoastronomy has not been consistently titled, having adopted various different names such as alignment studies, orientation theory, astro-archaeology, megalithic science, archaeotopography, archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy: names which depict variants of its methods and theory, sometimes in tandem with those of archaeology and sometimes in opposition. Similarly, its academic status has always been unclear so to bring it closer to archaeology there was a proposal in 2015 to integrate archaeoastronomy research with that of archaeology and call it skyscape archaeology. This volume will examine how all these different variants came about and consider archaeoastronomy's often troubled relationship with archaeology and its appropriation by esotericism to shed light on its position today.
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Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Archaeoastronomy |
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Author | : Anthony F. Aveni |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2001-08-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780292705029 |
Download Skywatchers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico helped establish the field of archaeoastronomy, and it remains the standard introduction to this subject. Combining basic astronomy with archaeological and ethnological data, it presented a readable and entertaining synthesis of all that was known of ancient astronomy in the western hemisphere as of 1980. In this revised edition, Anthony Aveni draws on his own and others' discoveries of the past twenty years to bring the Skywatchers story up to the present. He offers new data and interpretations in many areas, including: The study of Mesoamerican time and calendrical systems and their unprecedented continuity in contemporary Mesoamerican culture The connections between Precolumbian religion, astrology, and scientific, quantitative astronomy The relationship between Highland Mexico and the world of the Maya and the state of Pan-American scientific practices The use of personal computer software for computing astronomical data With this updated information, Skywatchers will serve a new generation of general and scholarly readers and will be useful in courses on archaeoastronomy, astronomy, history of astronomy, history of science, anthropology, archaeology, and world religions.
Author | : E. C. Krupp |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012-03-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0486137643 |
Download Echoes of the Ancient Skies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Popular, authoritative look at the world of archaeoastronomy, the study of ancient peoples' observation of the skies and its role in their cultural evolution. 208 illustrations.
Author | : John Major Jenkins |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1998-08-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1591438098 |
Download Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While researching the 2012 end-date of the Maya Calendar, John Major Jenkins decoded the Maya's galactic cosmology. The Maya discovered that the periodic alignment of the Sun with the center of the Milky Way galaxy is the formative influence on human evolution. These alignments also define a series of World Ages. The fourth age ends on December 21, 2012, when an epoch chapter in human history will come to an end. Maya Cosmogenisis 2012 reveals the Maya's insight into the cyclic nature of time, and prepares us for our own cosmogenesis--the birth of a new world.
Author | : Anthony Aveni |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2019-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300241283 |
Download Star Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Follow an epic animal race, a quest for a disembodied hand, and an emu egg hunt in constellation stories from diverse cultures We can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconventional atlas of the night sky, introducing readers to tales beloved for generations. The constellations included are not only your typical Greek and Roman myths, but star patterns conceived by a host of cultures, non-Western and indigenous, ancient and contemporary. The sky has long served as a template for telling stories about the meaning of life. People have looked for likenesses between the domains of heaven and earth to help marry the unfamiliar above to the quotidian below. Perfect reading for all sky watchers and storytellers, this book is an essential complement to Western mythologies, showing how the confluence of the natural world and culture of heavenly observers can produce a variety of tales about the shapes in the sky.