Archaeoastronomy Archives

Volume XIV: 2, Fall/Winter 1999

Archaeology and Astronomy: A View from Scotland
Patrick Ashmore
Astronomy, Oral Literature, and Landscape in Ancient Hawai'i
Clive Ruggles
Archaeoastronomy in Traditional Areas of Eurasia: A Review Paper
Stanislaw Iwaniszewski

Book Reviews

Volume XIV:1, Spring/Summer 1999

Astronomy in Culture
John B. Carlson, David S. P. Dearborn, Stephen C. McCluskey, and Clive L. N. Ruggles
Archaeoastronomy and the History of Science
Michael J. Crowe and Matthew F. Dowd
Maya Astronomy: What We Know and How We Know It
Barbara Tedlock
Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture in Japan: Paving the Way to Interdisciplinary Study
Stephen L. Renshaw and Saori Ihara
Astronomy in Historical Studies
Bradley E. Schaefer
A Southeastern Native American Tradition: The Ofo Calendar and Related Sky Lore
Jerry King and Carol Ventura
Pilgrimage and the Equinox "Serpent of Light and Shadow" Phenomenon at the Castillo, Chichén Itzá, Yucatán
John B. Carlson

Book Reviews

Volumes XII-XIII, 1996

Songs from the Sky: Indigenous Astronomical and Cosmological Traditions of the World
edited by Von Del Chamberlain, John B. Carlson and M. Jane Young

Preface
Clive Ruggles
Foreword
John B. Carlson
Introduction
Von Del Chamberlain & M. Jane Young

I. Ethnoastronomy Perspectives

The Sky is an Ethnographic Treasure Trove
Von Del Chamberlain
The Color of Cosmic Order
Edwin C. Krupp
Ethnoastronomy and the Problem of Interpretation: A Zuni Example
M. Jane Young

II. Western Astronomical Traditions

Ethnoastronomy and the Arab Agricultural Almanac
Daniel Martin Varisco

III.Native Astronomical Traditions of the Americas

The Seven Sisters
N. Scott Momaday
Raven's Universe
David Vogt
Astronomy in Pueblo and Navajo World Views
M. Jane Young
Using a Planetarium to Study Navajo Star Lore
Mark Bunker Peterson
Black God: God of Fire, God of Starlight
Trudy Griffin-Pierce
Origin and Meaning of Navajo Star Ceilings
Von Del Chamberlain and Polly Schaafsma
Transformations of the Mesoamerican Venus Turtle Carapace War Shield: A Study in Ethnoastronomy
John B. Carlson
When is a Month?: The Moon and Mescaleros
Claire R. Farrer
Ethnoastronomy of the North American Plains
Alice B. Kehoe
Lakota Star Knowledge
Ronald Goodman
Sky Tales from the Anishinaubaeg
Basil H. Johnston
Venus in the East and West
Stanisław Iwaniszewski
Tzotzil Maya Cosmology
Weldon Lamb
Mixe Calendrics, Ritual and Astronomy
Frank J. Lipp
Constructions of the Ritual-Agricultural Calendar in Pacariqtambo, Peru
Gary Urton
Mythic Substitution and the Stars: Aspects of Shipibo and Quechua Ethnoastronomy Compared
Peter G. Roe
Amahuaca Astronomy and Star Lore
Joseph Holt Woodside
Búzios Island: Knowledge and Belief Among a Fishing and Agricultural community at the coast of the State of São Paolo
Marcio D'Olne Campos
Tropical Tribal Astronomy: Ethnohistorical and Ethnographic Notes
Edmundo Magaña
Arawak Constellations: A Bibliographic Survey
Fabiola Jara

IV. Astronomical Traditions of the Non-Western World

Monotony and Surprise in Tabwa Cosmology
Allen F. Roberts
The Moon Besmirched
Dominique Zahan
The Haphazard Astronomy of the Mursi
Clive Ruggles and David Turton
Surya Puja Temples of South India
J. McKim Malville and R. N. Swaminathan
The Planetariu and the Plough: Interpreting Star Calendars of Rural Java
Gene Ammarell
Applied Ethnoastronomy: Navigating by the Stars Across the Pacific
Ben Finney
The Woodlark Island Calendar: Contexts for Interpretation
Frederick H. Damon
Celestial Lore of some Australian Tribes
Norman B. Tindale

Volume XI, 1989-1993

The Calendar of the Toba-Batak of Sumatra
Johs. Winkler
The Batak Porhalaan Traditional Calendar of Sumatra
Linda Amy Kimball
Mescalero Apache Ethnoastronomy: Problems and Praxis
Claire R. Farrer, Gene Ammarell and Bernard Second
Ceremonial Features of Yellow Jacket, 5MT-5
J. McKim Malville and Kenneth R. Brownsberger
Astronomy and the Limits of Vision
Bradley E. Schaefer
Confluences of Astronomical Spectacles
Bradley E. Schaefer
Did Muhammad Observe the Canterbury Meteoroid Swarm?
Imad A. Ahmad
The Dawn Sky on Lailat-ul-qadr (The Night of Power)
Imad A. Ahmad
The Historical Identity of a Mass Conjunction Inferred from the Madrid Codex
Robert L. Hall
"As it Is Above, So Shall it Be Below": The Blueprint of Civilization
J. Saul
At the Crossroads of Astronomy and Archaeology: An Appraisal of Baudez' Appraisal of Archaeoastronomy at Copan (and elsewhere)
Anthony F. Aveni, Michael Closs and Horst Hartung

Book Reviews

Volume X, 1987-1988

Imagines Mundi: Narrative, Ritual, and Architectural Exemplars of Batammaliba Cosmology
Suzanne Preston Blier
Rock Music and the Zaose Solar Deity
Allen F. Roberts
The Traditional Tiruray Zodiac: The Celestial Calendar of a Philippine Swidden and Foraging People
Stuart A. Schlegel
Astronomical Alignments at Cajon Mesa Ruins, Hovenweep National Monument: An Update
Ray A. Williamson and Carol Ambruster
Calendric Keystone (?) The Skidi Pawnee Chart of the Heavens: A New Interpretation
Kenneth C. Leonard, Jr.
Venus and Temple 22 at Copan: Revisited
Ivan Sprajc
Universal Meteor Metaphors and Their Occurrence in Mesoamerican Astronomy
Carlos Trenary
The Influence of the Skies on Plains Indian Vision Quests and Shields
Ixchel Levendosky
Rediscovering the Past: Application of Computers to the Astronomical Dating of Kudurru SB22 of the Louvre Museum
Vladimir S. Tuman and Robert Hoffman
An Ancient Zapotec Calendrical Cosmogram
Sylvia Meluzin

Book Reviews

Volume IX, 1986

Here Comes the Sun: The Cuzco-Machu Picchu Connection
David S. P. Dearborn and Katharina J. Schrieber
Easter Island's "Solar Ranging Device," Ahu Huri A Urenga and Vicinity
William Liller and Julio Duarte D.
Celestial Happenings on Easter Island: A.D. 760-837
William Liller
Mescalero Apache Terminology for Venus
Claire R. Farrer
Ethnoastronomy in Navajo Sandpaintings of the Heavens
Trudy Griffin-Pierce
Organization of Space in the Anasazi Ceremonial Site of Yellow Jacket, 5MT-5
J. McKim Malville and Mark Neupert
The Ixtapaluca Archaeological Monument
Roberto Barrie
Keeping a Seasonal Calendar at Pueblo Bonito
Michael Zeilik
Model of Planetary Configuration in the Mahabharata: An Exercise in Archaeoastronomy
Virendra Nath Sharma
The 88 Lunar Month Pattern of Solar and Lunar Eclipses and Its Relationship to the Maya Calendar
Robert K. Smither

Book Reviews

Volume VIII, 1985

Brainport Bay: A Prehistoric Calendrical Site in Argyllshire, Scotland
E. W. MacKie, P. F. Gladwin and A. E. Roy
Astronomical Traditions of Ancient Ireland and Britain
Ronald Hicks
Hawks, Meteorology and Astronomy in Quiche-Maya Agriculture
Barbara Tedlock
The Juniper Cave Summer Solstice Pictograph
Merle F. Walker
Halley's Comet Legends Among the Great Lakes Ojibwa Indians
Thor Conway
Dominant Traditions in Swedish Comet Lore
Bjorn Hedberg
Touching the Sky: Conversations with Four Contemporary Artists
Janet Saad-Cook

Book Reviews

Volume VII, 1984

New Archaeoastronomical Discoveries in China
Xi Zezong
The Mesoamerican Rabbit in the Moon: An Influence from Han China?
Charles R. Wicke
The Tome of Antiochus Revisited: Planetary Alignments and the Deification of the King
V. S. Tuman
A Possible Equinoctial Sun-Sighting Station at Tsiping, New Mexico
Michael Zeilik
Summer Solstice at Casa Rinconada: Calendar, Hierophany, or Nothing?
Michael Zeilik
Numerical Characteristics of Three Engraved Bison Scapulae from the Texas Gulf Coast
William Breen Murray
The Origins of Astronomy and Astrology in Mesopotamia
Robert Chadwick
New Tools for Ancient Skies
David S. P. Dearborn and Bernard Bell
Armenian Astronomy in the Bronze Age
Joseph G. Ouzounian
Astronomy in Taino Mythology
Sabastian Robiou-Lamarche

Book Reviews

Volume VI, 1983

Navajo Constellations in Literature, Art, Artifact and a New Mexico Rock Art Site
Von Del Chamberlain
Sky Symbolism in a Navajo Rock Art Site, Chaco Canyon
Ray A. Williamson
Wijiji at Chaco Canyon: A Winter Solstice Sunrise and Sunset Station
Michael Zeilik and Richard Elston
The Reliability of Historical Maps of Earthworks in the Ohio Valley
Thomas H. Robertson
A Malecite Calendar of the Pre-Contact Period
Roger B. Ray
A Possible Aboriginal Winter Solstice Viewing Site on the Southern Oregon Coast
Roberta L. Hall and Robert D. Hall
The Ancient Mexican Astronomical Apparatus: An Iconographical Criticism
Maarten E. R. G. N. Jansen and G. Aurora Perez
A Painted Venus Glyph in the Tower of Palenque
Karl Herbert Mayer
Chinese "Astronomical" Jade Disks: The Pi
Bradley E. Schaefer
Invention of the Sky
Edmundo Magana and Fabiola Jara
The Mallia Table: Kernos or Clock?
Charles F. Herberger
A Computer Study of Babylonian Almanacs
N. A. Roughton
The Solstice Eclipses of Stonehenge II
Jack H. Robinson
Stonehenge: The Aubrey Holes and the Avenue
R. J. C. Atkinson
Cultural Implications of the Eclipse of 16 February 1980
Peter Seitel

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