Archaeoastronomy and the Maya
By: edited by Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos and Edwin L. Barnhart
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9781782976431; 9781782976448
Subjects: Archaeoastronomy; Maya astronomy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Cosmic order at Chocolá: implications of solar observations of the eastern horizon at Chocolá, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala / Harold H. Green; title: Teotihuacan architectural alignments in the central Maya lowlands? / Ivan Sprajc; title: The astronomical architecture of Palenque's Temple of the Sun / Alonso Mendez, Carol Karasik, Edwin L. Barnhart and Christopher Powell; title: An oracular hypothesis: the Dresden Codex Venus table and the cultural translation of science / Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos; title: Centering the world: zenith and nadir passages at Palenque / Alonso Mendez and Carol Karasik; title: The many faces of Venus in Mesoamerica / Susan Milbrath; title: Glyphs G and F: the cycle of nine, the lunar nodes, and the draconic month / Michael J. Grofe; title: Epilogue: Mayan astronomers at work / Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos.