Reidentifying Archaeoastronomy

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  • Anthony Aveni Colgate University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.31900

Keywords:

Archaeoastronomy, Archaeology

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Author Biography

  • Anthony Aveni, Colgate University

    Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy, Anthropology and Native American Studies Colgate University

References

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Aveni, A., 2001. Skywatchers. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Aveni, A., 2004. “An Assessment of Studies in Hopewell Astronomy”. In The Fort Ancient Earthworks: Prehistoric Lifeways of the Hopewell Culture in Southwest Ohio, edited by R. P. Connolly and B. T. Lepper, 243–257. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society.

Aveni, A., ed., 2008. Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy: A Reader with Commentary. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

Aveni, A., 2009. The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.

Aveni, A., 2010. “Cosmology and Cultural Landscape: The Late Postclassic Maya of Yucatan”. In Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period, edited by G. Vail and C. Hernandez, 115–132. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks.

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2017-02-10

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Aveni, A. (2017). Reidentifying Archaeoastronomy. Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, 2(2), 245-249. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsa.31900