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Viewing the sky through past and present cultures : selected papers from the Oxford VII International Conference on Archaeoastronomy
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Viewing the sky through past and present cultures : selected papers from the Oxford VII International Conference on Archaeoastronomy

Author: Todd W Bostwick; Bryan Bates; Pueblo Grande Museum.
Publisher: Phoenix, Ariz. : City of Phoenix, Parks, and Recreation Dept., ©2006.
Series: Pueblo grande museum anthropological papers, No. 15.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : English
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Todd W Bostwick; Bryan Bates; Pueblo Grande Museum.
ISBN: 1882572386 9781882572380
OCLC Number: 85885501
Description: xxii, 470 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Contents: Ethnographic/historical approaches: The role of the Pleiades in integrating social, ecological, and astronomical time : the Bororo ceremony of Akiri-doge E-wure Kowudu / Stephen M. Fabian --
Tupi-Guarani indigenous knowledge of relations between heavens and earth / Flavia Pedroza Lima, Ildeu de Castro Moreira, and Germano Bruno Afonso --
From "archaeo" to "ethno" : an indigenous Australian astronomy : the story of action research into Boorong astronomy since 1995 / John Morieson --
Finding the thunderbird in Navajo astronomy / Nancy C. Maryboy and David Begay --
On the trail of Dinétah skywatchers : sun and moon / Von Del Chamberlain and Hugh C. Rogers --
American ideals patterned in stars : Native American emblems in the sky / Von Del Chamberlain --
The Americas: Zenith observations and the conceptualization of geographical latitude in ancient Mesoamerica : a historical interdisciplinary approach / Johanna Broda --
Out of Teotihuacán : cross-circle figures in the Valley of Mexico / Stanislaw Iwaniszewski --
The cross-in-circle motif at Boca de Potrerillos, Nuevo León, México : cardinal direction symbolism in rock art? / William Breen Murray --
Lunar alliances : shedding light on conflicting classic Maya theories of hegemony / Gerardo V. Aldana --
Chimney Rock as a ceremonial center and port-of-trade within the Chaco system / Gary Fairchild, J. McKim Malville, and Nancy J. Malville --
Evaluating the Chimney Rock Pueblo with respect to observing the major lunar standstill moonrises : potential architectural encoding of astronomic knowledge / Ron Sutcliffe --
A midsummer sunbeam site in New England / Fred W. Martin and Elizabeth F. Martin --
Astro-archaeology at Town Creek Indian Mound / Vance R. Tiede --
The Sun Temple of Llactapata and the ceremonial neighborhood of Machu Picchu / J. McKim Malville, Hugh Thomson, and Gary Ziegler.
Series Title: Pueblo grande museum anthropological papers, No. 15.
Responsibility: edited by Todd W. Bostwick, Bryan Bates.

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