Review
"With its stunning array of diverse approaches, from the Maya Dresden Codex to Hawaiian astronomy to the alignment of Medieval English churches... this volume presents a series of important articles written by eminent scholars in the field of Cultural Astronomy. In terms of edited volumes, it is the most important contribution to the field in recent memory." -- Grant Aylesworth, University of New Brunswick. "All in all the eleven papers present us with an intriguing, detailed, and well-referenced insight into the fascinations of cultural astronomy. The fact that this subject is both challenging and welcoming shines from every page." -- The Observatory Magazine December 2008
Product Description
Compiled in honour of Anthony F Aveni, America's leading archaeoastronomer, "Skywatching in the Ancient World" offers state-of-the-art work in cultural astronomy by well-known experts in Mayan glyphic studies, cultural history, ethnohistory, and the history of science and of religions. This collection's wide range of outstanding scholarship reveals that cultural astronomy has come into its own. The diverse topics addressed by the contributors include the correlation between Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian calendars, the Dresden Codex Venus table, new interpretations of the Lunar Almanacs in the Dresden Codex, the Tukapu and Inca calendars, temple and church orientations in ancient Hawai'i and Medieval England, and the connection in cultural imagery between astronomers (science) and wizards (magic).
