Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico helped establish the field of
archaeoastronomy, and it remains the standard introduction to this
subject. Combining basic astronomy with archaeological and
ethnological data, it presented a readable and entertaining
synthesis of all that was known of ancient astronomy in the western
hemisphere as of 1980.
In this revised edition, Anthony Aveni draws on his own and
others' discoveries of the past twenty years to bring the
Skywatchers story up to the present. He offers new data and
interpretations in many areas, including:
-- The study of Mesoamerican time and calendrical systems and their
unprecedented continuity in contemporary Mesoamerican culture
-- The connections between Precolumbian religion, astrology, and
scientific, quantitative astronomy
-- The relationship between Highland Mexico and the world of the
Maya and the state of Pan-American scientific practices
-- The use of personal computer software for computing astronomical
data
With this updated information, Skywatchers will serve a new
generation of general and scholarly readers and will be useful in
courses on archaeoastronomy, astronomy, history of astronomy,
history of science, anthropology, archaeology, and world
religions.
Winner of several teaching awards, including National Professor
of the Year from the Council for the Advancement and Support of
Education, Anthony F. Aveni is the Russell B. Colgate Professor of
Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate University in upstate New
York.
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