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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Archaeoastronomy and Its Components | |
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| Archaeoastronomy: Twenty Years of Hindsight | |
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| Additional Selected Readings | |
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| The Historical, Ethnographic, and Ethnological Background for Native American Astronomy | |
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| The Civilizations of Ancient Mesoamerica | |
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| Chroniclers and Codices | |
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| Aztec Constellations | |
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| Astronomy and the Ethnological Record: The Importance of the Zenith Solar Passage | |
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| Additional Selected Readings | |
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| Astronomy with the Naked Eye | |
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| The Celestial Sphere: Coordinate Reference Frames | |
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| Charting the Sun's Movement | |
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| The Moon, Eclipses, and Eclipse Cycles | |
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| Cycles of the Planets | |
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| Miscellaneous Observable Sky Phenomena | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Glossary of Astronomical Terms of Importance in Archaeoastronomy | |
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| Factors Affecting the Precise Determination of Astronomical Orientations | |
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| Heliacal Rise and Set Phenomena | |
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| Determining the Approximate Date of Sunrise or Sunset for a Given Azimuth | |
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| Change of Direction of the Magnetic Compass with Time in Mesoamerica | |
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| Some Basic Formulas Useful for Fieldwork in Archaeoastronomy | |
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| How to Determine Alignments with the Surveyor's Transit | |
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| Additional Selected Readings, Electronic Resources, and Star Maps- | |
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| The Mathematical and Astronomical Content of the Mesoamerican Inscriptions | |
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| A Brief History of Calendrical Decipherment | |
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| The Mesoamerican Philosophy of Numbers | |
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| The Long Count | |
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| The Calendar Round | |
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| The Union of Time and Space in Mesoamerican Cosmology | |
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| How the Calendar Works | |
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| The Supplementary Series and the Lunar Synodic Month | |
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| Tropical Year Calculations | |
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| Planetary Events in the Monumental Inscriptions | |
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| Astronomy in the Maya Codices | |
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| General Content of the Codices | |
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| Astronomy in the Maya Codices | |
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| Eclipses and Eclipse Tables | |
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| Astronomy in the Maya Codices | |
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| Venus | |
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| Astronomy in the Maya Codices | |
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| A Mars Table | |
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| Was There a Mesoamerican Zodiac? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Appendices | |
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| The Problem of the Correlation of Maya and Christian Dates | |
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| A Scheme for the Conversion of Maya Dates | |
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| Additional Selected Readings | |
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| Astronomy and Architecture in the Ancient Americas and Mediterranean Basin | |
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| The Orientation Motive | |
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| City and Cosmos: Urban Planning in Highland Mexico | |
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| Cosmic Order in the Aztec Capital | |
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| Maya Cities: Architecture and Sacred Landscape | |
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| Specialized Architectural Assemblages | |
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| North America | |
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| The Andean World | |
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| Summary: Astronomy in Ancient American Cultures | |
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| Circum-Mediterranean Archaeoastronomy | |
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| An Analysis of the Pecked Cross Petroglyphs | |
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| Additional Selected Readings | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |