Current studies in archaeoastronomy : conversations across space and time : selected papers from the fifth Oxford International Conference at Santa Fe, 1996 /
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| Meeting name: | Oxford International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy (5th : 1996 : Santa Fe, N.M.) |
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| Imprint: | Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xi, 579 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5747605 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John W. Fountain and Rolf M. Sinclair
- 1. The nature of archaeoastronomy : archaeoastronomy and the Oxford conferences / Rolf M. Sinclair
- 2. The universe in a cultural context : an essay / George J. Gumerman and Miranda Warburton
- 3. Cultural aspects of neo-catastrophism : implications for archaeoastronomy / Benny J. Peiser
- 4. Astronomical omens / Bradley E. Schaefer
- 5. Black suns and dark times : cultural responses to solar eclipses in the ancient Puebloan Southwest / W. Bruce Masse and Robert Soklow
- 6. Different astronomies, different cultures and the question of cultural relativism / Stephen C. McCluskey
- 7. Interpreting rock art : European and Anasazi representations of spirituality / Richard L. Poss
- 8. A database of rock art solar markers / John Fountain
- 9. Consistent forms of solstice sunlight interaction with petroglyphs throughout the prehistoric American Southwest / Robert A. Preston and Ann L. Preston
- 10. Fern cave rock paintings at Lava Beds National Monument, California : not the AD 1054 supernova / R. A. Armitage, M. Hyman, M. W. Rowe, J. R. Southon and C. Barat
- 11. A cultural interpretation of an astronomical calendar (SITE #SW 833) at Wupatki National Monument / Bryan C. Bates
- 12. The Shaw Butte Hilltop site : a prehistoric Hohokan observatory / Todd W. Bostwick and Stan Plum
- 13. A sunrise calendar at a Kayenta Anasazi village / Von Del Chamberlain, William R. Latady and Todd Prince
- 14. Calendric investigations of a complex petroglyph panel at a Gila River archaeological site in Arizona / Tom Hoskinson
- 15. A petroglyph panel of astronomical significance / R. P. Olowin
- 16. Feathered stars and scalps in Pueblo IV / Polly Schaafsma
- 17. Evidence for early Navajo horizon astronomy in Chaco Canyon / Carol W. Ambruster and Tony Hull
- 18. Tracking stars in Dinetah : astronomical symbolism in Gobernador phase rock art / Von Del Chamberlain and Hugh C. Rogers
- 19. Celestial imagery in Lakota culture / Mark Hollabaugh
- 20. Effigy mound archaeoastronomy / Frank D. Stekel
- 21. A lunar origin for the Mesoamerican calendars of 20, 13, 9, and 7 days / Martha J. Macri
- 22. 2000 years of continuity in astronomical symbols from Monte Alban to the Aztec stone at Tenochtitlan / R. Robert Robbins
- 23. Jupiter in classic and postclassic Maya art / Susan Milbrath
- 24. Analysis of the Nazca spirals / Phyllis Burton Pitluga
- 25. Inti, the condor and the underworld : the archaeoastronomical implications of the newly discovered caves at Machu Picchu, Peru / James S. Westerman
- 26. The astronomical significance of a procession, a pilgrimage and a race in the calendar of Cuzco / R. Tom Zuidema
- 27. Elements of Greek astronomy and religion in Minoan Crete / Goren Henriksson and Mary Blomberg
- 28. Scratching the surface of astronomy in the land of the Bible : archaeology, texts, and astronomy / Sara L. Gardner
- 29. Bedroom politics and celestial sovereignty / E. C. Krupp
- 30. The Decans of ancient Egypt : timekeepers for worship, or worshiped beyond time? / Kurt Locher
- 31. Metal artifacts as a mirror of ancient Georgian astronomical world view / Irakli Simonia and Tsitsino Simonia
- 32. The equinox in pre-Hispanic Canary Islands / Cesar Esteban, Juan A. Belmonte and Maria A. Perera Betancor
- 33. Hunting the European sky bears : a proto-European vision quest to the end of the Earth / Roslyn Frank
- 34. Solar eclipses and Encke's comet on Swedish rock carvings / Goran Henriksson
- 35. Simon Ushakov's icon "The Archangel Michael trampling the devil underfoot" (1676) and Archangel's fiery sword in the Russian iconographic tradition in the context of bright comets appearances / Petko Nedialkov
- 36. Characteristics of field allocation (fenye) astrology in early China / David W. Pankenier
- 37. Canton at the Tropic of Cancer / Bella C. Chiu
- 38. Discoveries in aboriginal sky-mapping (Australia) / Hugh C. Cairns
- 39. Archaeoastronomy in the core curriculum / Sarah M. Nelson and Robert E. Stencel
- 40. Ancient Cosmology Resource Center / Bryan Penprase
- 41. Archaeoastronomical research and public education in a Digistar computer-generated planetarium / Carolyn Sumners and Alan Knox.