Archaeoastronomy and the Maya
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Aldana y Villalobos, Gerardo
Barnhart, Edwin Lawrence |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Oxford :
Oxbow Books,
2014.
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| Ausgabe: | Paperback edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
viii, 165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. |
| Schlagworte: |
Astronomie
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| iDAI.gazetteer: |
México |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Cosmic order at Chocolá: implications of solar observations of the eastern horizon at Chocolá, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala / Harold H. Green
- Teotihuacan architectural alignments in the central Maya lowlands? / Ivan Šprajc
- The astronomical architecture of Palenque’s Temple of the Sun / Alonso Mendez, Carol Karasik, Edwin L. Barnhart and Christopher Powell
- An oracular hypothesis: the Dresden Codex Venus table and the cultural translation of science / Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos
- Centering the world: zenith and nadir passages at Palenque / Alonso Mendez and Carol Karasik
- The many faces of Venus in Mesoamerica / Susan Milbrath
- Glyphs G and F: the cycle of nine, the lunar nodes, and the draconic month / Michael J. Grofe
- Epilogue: Mayan astronomers at work / Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos.
