ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND THE MAYA
Written by Gerardo Aldana Y Villalobos, Edwin L. Barnhart
Published by Oxbow Books
in 2014
ISBN: 9781782976431
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- ASTRONOMY
- PREHISTORIC
- HIEROGLYPHS
- ARCHITECTURE
- MEXICO
- MAYA
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Front cover
Contents
- Introduction: Towards an archaeoastronomy 2.0?
- 1. Cosmic order at Chocola: implications of solar observations of the eastern horizon at Chocola, Suchitepequez, Guatemala
- 2. Teotihuacan architecural alignments in the central Maya lowlands?
- 3. The atronomical architecture of Palenque's Temple of the Sun
- 4. An oracular hypothesis: the Dresden Codex Venus Table and the cultural translation of science
- 5. Centering the world: zenith and nadir passages at Palenque
- 6. The many faces of Venus is Mesoamerica
- 7. Glyphs G and F: the cycle of nine, the lunar nodes, and the draconic month
- 8. Epilogue: Mayan astronomers at work