Viewing the Sky Through Past and Present Cultures: Selected Papers from the Oxford VII International Conference on Archaeoastronomy.

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XXII + 470 pages, trade paperback, corners bumped, slightly ceased (see photo), pages clean and unmarked, sound copy. - - Contents: List of figures, List of tables. - Bryan Bates: Preface. - Todd W. Bostwick: Archaeoastronomy at the gates of orthodoxy: Introduction to the Oxford International Conference on Archaeoastronomy Papers. - - Methodological and theoretical issues: 1. Rolf M. Sinclair: The nature of archaeoastronomy. - 2. Bradley E. Schaefer: Keynote address. Case studies of three of the most famous claimed archaeoastronomical alignments in North America. - 3. Anthony F. Aveni: Critique of keynote address. Evidence and intentionality: On method in archaeoastronomy. - 4. Schaefer: Rebuttal to critique. No astronomical alignments at the Caracol. - 5. Aveni: Reply to rebuttal. Schaefer's rigid ethnocentric criteria. - 6. David S. Whitley: Issues in archaeoastronomy and rock art. - 7. Victor B. Fisher: Ignoring archaeoastronomy: A dying tradition in American archaeology. - - Ethnographic/historical approaches: 8. Stephen M. Fabian: The role of the pleiades in integrating social, ecological and astronomical time: The Bororo ceremony of Akiri-doge-E-wure Kowudu. - 9. Lima/de Castro Moreira/Afonso: Tupi-Guarani indegenous knowledge on relations between heavens and earth. - 10. From "archaeo" to "ethno" - An indigenous Australian astronomy: The story of action research into Boorong astronomy since 1995. - 11. Maryboy/Begay: Finding the thunderbird in Navajo Astronomy. - 12. Chamberlain/Rogers: On th trail of Denétah skywatchers: Sun and moon. - Von Del Chamberlain: American ideals patterned in the stars: Native American emblems in the sky. - - The Americas: 14. Johanna Broda: Zenith observations and the conceptualization of geographical latitude in ancient Mesoamerica: A historical interdisciplinary approach. - 15. Stanislaw Iwaniszewski: Out of Teotihuacán: Cross-circle figures in the valley of Mexico. - 16. William Breen Murray: The cross-in-circle motif at Boca de Pptrerillos, Nuevo León, Mexico: Cardinal directional symbolism in rock art? - 17. Gerardo V. Aldana: Lunar alliances: Shedding light on conflicting classic Maya theories of hegemony. - 18. Fairchild/Malville: Chimney Rock as ceremonial center and port-of-trade within the Chaco system. - 19. Ron Sutcliffe: Evaluating the Chimney Roch Pueblo with respect to observing the major lunar standstill moonrises: Potential architectural encoding of astronomical knowledge. - 20. Martin/Martin: A midsummer sunbeam site in New England. - 21. Vance R. Tiede: Astro-archaeology at Town Creek Indian mound. - 22. Malville/Thomson/Ziegler: The sun temple of Llactapata and the ceremonial neighborhood of Machu Picchu. - - Europe and India: 23. Euan W. MacKie: New evidence for professional priesthood in the European early bronze age. - 24. Thorsteinn Vilhjalmsson: Old Norse navigation: Hardware of software? - 25. Morintz/Schuster: The sun in north Balkan prehistory. - 26. V.F. Polcaro: A possible European witness of supernova 1181. - 27. Stephen C. McCluskey: The orientations of medieval churches: A methodological case study. - 28. K.P. Rao: Astronomical relationship of south Indian megaliths. - 29. B.N Narahari Achar: Planetary configurations in the epic Mahabharata: Revisiting an exercise in archaeoastronomy. - - 30. Future considerations: 30. Angela M. Richman: The night sky: Our most valueable, but vanishing, cultural resource. - 31. Christian B. Luginbuhl: The loss of our night skies: Why. …

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Title
Viewing the Sky Through Past and Present Cultures: Selected Papers from the Oxford VII International Conference on Archaeoastronomy.
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Bostwick, Todd W. ; Bates, Bryan (eds.)
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Phoenix, Arizona
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2006
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English
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