Cantos de Mesoamérica
Subtitle: Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Ciudad de México, México noviembre 10-13, 2009
By: editores de las memorias José Daniel Flores Gutiérrez y Rosalba Nieto Calleja
Series: Revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica. Serie de conferencias -- volumen 47, noviembre 2016; Revista mexicana de astronomía y astrofísica -- v. 47
Publisher: Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Ciudad de México, México
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9770140550291
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Indian astronomy; Congresses; Indians of Mexico; Antiquities; Indians of Central America
Description: "To approach the comprehension of Mesoamerican astronomical signs, it is necessary to establish correlations among many essential concepts of modern astronomy and the numerous culture expressions. Thus, through the study of Mesoamerican signs and the pursuit of their astronomical signifiers, we have learned to recognize certain iconographic aspects that summarize the methods of recording observed astronomical phenomena, which were of interest to human groups in the prehispanic past. All this includes the existence of various levels of astronomical information contained in the Mesoamerican material culture, manifested through different indicators: type of calendrical codices; orientation of plinths and buildings; rock art such as petroglyphs and astronomical markers; architectural works and the great diversity of signs immersed in the prehispanic arts as sculpture and mural painting. So, with the purpose of bringing together the diverse views on the study of the Mesoamerica and appreciate the importance of the prehispanic astronomical science, the Instituto de Astronomı́a and the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas of the Universidad Nacional Aut́onoma de México (UNAM), and the Dirección de Estudios Arqueológicos and the Coordinación Nacional de Difusión of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologı́a e Historia (INAH), with seven decades of protection and recovery of cultural heritage of Mexico, with the support of their directors José Franco, Carlos Serrano, Luis Alberto Martos and Benito Taibo Mahojo, respectively, joined efforts to organize the meeting Cantos de Mesoámerica during the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (10 to 13 November)."--Preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English; abstracts in English and Spanish.
Table of contents: title: When heavens speak / Alfonso Arellano Hernández; title: Scorpio and long-distance trade in Mesoamerica / Bernd Fahmel Beyer; title: Symbolism of solstices in Mesoamerican cosmovision / Yolotl González Torres; title: Profiling classic Maya skywatchers / Stanislaw Iwaniszewski; title: 1-Tochtli, 2-Acatl survivals of the New Fire Ceremony 1558/1559; 1610/1611 / Arnold Lebeuf; title: Astronomical use of Cerro Sacromonte / María de Lourdes López Camacho; title: Notes about Alta Vista in Chalchihuites, Zacatecas / Ismael Arturo Montero García; title: The hand of God in Socaire / Ricardo Moyano; title: Eclipse count, calculation or prediction according to the Huichapan Codex / Rossana Quiroz Ennis; title: Possible representations of constellations in the rock art of the Basin of Mexico / Francisco Rivas Castro; title: Myths and Prehispanic astronomy : a look from the colonial perspective / María Elena Ruiz Gallut.