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Skywatchers - A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (Paperback, 2nd Revised and Updated ed.) Loot Price: R1,518
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Skywatchers - A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (Paperback, 2nd Revised and Updated ed.): Anthony...

Skywatchers - A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (Paperback, 2nd Revised and Updated ed.)

Anthony Aveni

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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.

General

Imprint: University Of Texas Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2001
First published: August 2001
Authors: Anthony Aveni
Dimensions: 252 x 179 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 423
Edition: 2nd Revised and Updated ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-70502-9
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Popular astronomy
Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Space travel & exploration
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN: 0-292-70502-6
Barcode: 9780292705029

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