Skywatchers:
Gespeichert in:
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Austin
Univ. of Texas Press
2001
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| Ausgabe: | Rev. and updated ed. |
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| Online-Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Beschreibung: | Frühere Ausg. u.d.T.: Aveni, Anthony F.: Skywatchers of ancient Mexico |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 411 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0292705042 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
I.
Introduction:
Archaeoastronomy
and Its Components I
Archaeoastronomy: Twenty Years of Hindsight
6
Additional Selected Readings
9
II. The Historical, Ethnographic, and Ethnological Background
for Native American Astronomy
12
The Civilizations of Ancient Mesoamerica
12
Chroniclers and Codices
15
Aztec Constellations
29
Astronomy and the Ethnological Record: The Importance
of the Solar Zenith Passage
40
Additional Selected Readings
47
III. Astronomy with the Naked Eye
49
The Celestial Sphere: Coordinate Reference Frames
49
Charting the Sun s Movement
55
The Moon, Eclipses, and Eclipse Cycles
67
Cycles of the Planets
80
Miscellaneous Observable Sky Phenomena
94
Appendices
96
A. Glossary of Astronomical Terms of Importance in
Archaeoastronomy
96
B. Factors Affecting the Precise Determination of
Astronomical Orientations
100
C. Heliacal Rise and Set Phenomena
110
D. Determining the Approximate Date of Sunrise or Sunset
for a Given Azimuth
113
E. Change of Direction of the Magnetic Compass with Time
in Mesoamerica
118
F. Some Basic Formulas Useful for Fieldwork in
Archaeoastronomy
119
G. How to Determine Alignments with the Surveyor s
Transit
120
Additional Selected Readings, Electronic Resources,
and Star Maps
124
vi
IV. The Mathematical and Astronomical Content of the
Contents Mesoamerican Inscriptions
127
A Brief History of Calendrical Decipherment
127
The Mesoamerican Philosophy of Numbers
130
The Long Count
136
The Calendar Round
139
The Union of Time and Space in Mesoamerican Cosmology 14H
How the Calendar Works
152
The Supplementary Series and the Lunar Synodic Month
155
Tropical Year Calculations
163
Planetary Events in the Monumental Inscriptions
/66
Astronomy in the Maya Codices, I:
Cenerai
Content
of the Codices
169
Astronomy in the Maya Codices, II: Eclipses and
Eclipse Tables
173
Astronomy in the Maya Codices, III: Venus 1H4
Astronomy in the Maya Codices, IV: Mars Tables
196
Was There a Mesoamerican Zodiac?
200
Summary
205
Appendices
A. The Problem of the Correlation of Maya and
Christian Dates
207
B. A Scheme for the Conversion of Maya Dates
210
Additional Selected Readings
214
V. Astronomy and Architecture in the Ancient Americas
and Mediterranean Basin
217
The Orientation Motive
217
City and Cosmos: Urban Planning in Highland Mexico
222
Cosmic Order in the Aztec Capital
235
Maya Cities: Architecture and Sacred Landscape
245
Specialized Architectural Assemblages
262
Archaeoastronomy in North America
301
Archaeoastronomy in the Andean World
308
Summary: Astronomy in Ancient American Cultures
321
Circum-Mediterranean Archaeoastronomy
322
Appendix A. An Analysis of the Pecked Cross Petroglyphs
329
Additional Selected Readings
334
Postscript
339
Notes
343
Bibliography
365
Index
395
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