Native American Astronomy.
Austin : University of Texas Press, c1977Description: xvii, 286 p. : ill. ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0292755112
- 520/.972
- E59.A8 N37
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Edited versions of papers presented at a symposium held at Colgate University, 23-26 September 1975.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [265]-278.
1. Concepts of positional astronomy employed in ancient mesoamerican architecture / Anthony F. Aveni -- 2. Mesoamerican calendrics as evidence of astronomical activity / Sharon L. Gibbs -- 3. Astronomical signs in the codices Bodley and Selden / Horst Hartung -- 4. Palenque: the house of the dying sun / Linda Schele -- 5. Maya astronomical tables and inscriptions / David H. Kelley -- 6. Current astronomical practices among the Maya / Judith A. Remington -- 7. The date-reaching mechanism in the Venus table of the Dresden codex / Michael P. Closs -- 8. Copan altar Q: the Maya astronomical congress of A.D. 763? / John B. Carlson -- 9. Ancient Maya architecture and planning: possibilities and limitations for astronomical studies / Horst Hartung -- 10. Native astronomy and the plains Caddoans / Waldo R. Wedel -- 11. Medicine wheels and plains Indian astronomy / John A. Eddy -- 12. Rock art representations of the A.D. 1054 supernova: a progress report / John C. Brandt and Ray A. Williamson -- 13. An examination of Miller's hypothesis / Dorothy Mayer -- 14. Anasazi solar observatories / Ray A. Williamson, Howard J. Fisher, and Donnel O'Flynn -- 15. The Inca calendar / R. T. Zuidema.