Full Description
Compiled in honor of Anthony F. Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, Skywatching in the Ancient World offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the history of science and of religions.This collection's wide range of outstanding scholarship reveals that cultural astronomy has come into its own. The diverse topics addressed by the contributors include the correlation between Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian calendars, the period of use of the Dresden Codex Venus table and the significance of the Lunar Almanacs that precede it, a new interpretation of an Inka tapestry mantle as a commemorative calendar, temple orientations in Hawai'i and church orientations in Medieval England, and the connection in cultural imagery between astronomers (science) and wizards (magic).
Contributors include: Harvey M. Bricker, Victoria R. Bricker, Edward E. Calnek, Clemency Coggins, John Justeson, Edwin C. Krupp, Stephen C. McCluskey, Susan Milbrath, Clive Ruggles, David Tavárez, Barbara Tedlock, Dennis Tedlock, Gary Urton, and R. Tom Zuidema. Mesoamerican Worlds Series
Contents
Contents; Foreword; David Carrasco; Preface; Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton; A Partner?s Perspective; Lorraine Aveni; Acknowledgments; Editors? Note; Introduction; Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton; 1. The Correlation between the Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian Calendars; John Justeson and David Tav rez; 2. Kirchoff?s Correlations and the Third Part of the Codex Borbonicus; Edward E. Calnek; 3. When Was the Dresden Codex Venus Table Efficacious?; Harvey M. Bricker and Victoria R. Bricker; 4. Moon Woman Meets the Stars: A New Reading of the Lunar Almanacs in the Dresden Codex; Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock; 5. Astronomical Cycles in the Imagery of Codex Borgia 29?46; Susan Milbrath; 6. The Measure of Man; Clemency Coggins; 7. A Multi-Year Tukapu Calendar; Gary Urton; 8. Solar and Lunar Observations in the Inca Calendar; R. Tom Zuidema; 9. Cosmology, Calendar, and Temple Orientations in Ancient Hawai?i; Clive Ruggles; 10. Calendrical Cycles, the Eighth Day of the World, and the Orientation of English Churches; Stephen C. McCluskey; 11. High Fashion; Edwin C. Krupp; Contributors; Index
