Archaeoastronomy
The Journal of Astronomy in Culture

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Volume XXIV, 2011
Volume XXIII, 2010
Volume XXII, 2009
Volume XXI, 2007-2008
Volume XX, 2006
Volume XIX, 2005
Volume XVIII, 2004
Volume XVII, 2002-2003
Archive

Volume XXIV, 2011

The Maya Calendar and 2012 Phenomenon Studies

John B. Carlson, Editor

The Maya Calendar and 2012 Phenomenon Studies: An Introduction

John B. Carlson

The Maya Long Count Calendar: An Introduction

Mark Van Stone

It’s Not the End of the World: What the Ancient Maya Tell Us about 2012

Mark Van Stone

Primordial Time and Future Time: Maya Era Day Mythology in the Context of the Tortuguero 2012 Prophecy

Carl D. Callaway

The Sidereal Year and the Celestial Caiman: Measuring Deep Time in Maya Inscriptions

Michael J. Grofe

Maya Mythology: Only One Reference to 2012?

Erik Boot

Holding the Balance: The Role of a Warrior King in the Reciprocity between War and Lineage Abundance on Tortuguero Monument 6

Barbara MacLeod

Anticipating the Maya Apocalypse: What Might the Ancient Day-Keepers Have Envisioned for December 21, 2012?

John B. Carlson

New Age Sympathies and Scholarly Complicities: The History and Promotion of 2012 Mythology

John W. Hoopes

2,012 by 2012? The “Impending Apparent End” of the “2012” Publishing Phenomenon

Kevin A. Whitesides

Volume XXIII, 2010

Cultural Astronomy of the Ancient and Historic Southwest: Selected Papers from the 2009 Conference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest

Guest Editors: Todd W. Bostwick, Bryan C. Bates, and Kenneth J. Zoll

Introduction to Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest

Todd W. Bostwick, Bryan C. Bates, and Kenneth J. Zoll

Traditional Astronomical Concepts: Linking Space, Time, and Culture

Stephen C. McCluskey

Sonsela Buttes: Where Stars Fell Down to Earth

Von Del Chamberlain, Hugh Rogers, and Harry Walters

Classic Object Lessons in Southwestern Archaeoastronomy

Victor B. Fisher

Star Trek: Recovery and Review of the First Alleged Supernova Rock Art

E. C. Krupp, Evelyn Billo, and Robert Mark

Reading, Writing, and Recording the Architecture: How Astronomical Cycles May Be Reflected in the Architectural Construction at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Gregory E. Munson, Larry V. Nordby, and Bryan C. Bates

Cultural Identity, Continuity, and Astronomy in Chaco Canyon

J. McKim Malville and Andrew M. Munro

Using Photography to Test Hypotheses in Southwestern Archaeoastronomy

John L. Ninnemann and J. McKim Malville

Calendrical Stations in Chaco Canyon

Andrew M. Munro and J. McKim Malville

Major Lunar Standstill Moonrise Shadow Casting at Casa Rinconada

Ron Sutcliffe

Modeling and Analysis of the Chaco Canyon Sun Dagger Site

Benjamin P. Luce

Petroglyph Record of a Solar Eclipse?

Paul Rodriguez

Archaeoastronomical Survey of Adobe Canyon

E. Ann Owen, Robert A. Dragon, and Steve Riley

Prehistoric Astronomy of Central Arizona

Kenneth J. Zoll

Exploring the Frontiers of Hohokam Astronomy: Tracking Seasons and Orienting Ritual Space in the Sonoran Desert

Todd W. Bostwick

Volume XXII, 2009

A Bayesian Approach to the Orientations of Central Alentejo Megalithic Enclosures

Fernando Pimenta, Luís Tirapicos, and Andrew Smith

On the Orientation of Thracian Dolmens

A. César González-García, Dimiter Z. Kolev, Juan A. Belmonte, Vesselina P. Koleva, and Lyubomir V. Tsonev

The Astronomy at Godmanchester: A. Possible Neolithic Observatory

David F. Lloyd

Evidence of Astronomical Considerations in Lowland Maya Regional Settlement Patterns

John J. Tomasic

Australian Aboriginal Geomythology: Eyewitness Accounts of Cosmic Impacts?

Duane W. Hamacher and Ray P. Norris

The Determination of Islamic Fasting and Prayer Times of High-Latitude Locations: Historical Review and New Astronomical Solutions

Karim Meziane and Nidhal Guessoum

A Calendar Khipou of the Early Seventeenth Century and Its Relationships with Inca Astronomy

Laura Laurencich-Minelli and Giulio Magli

Caballilto Blanco Mound O, Oaxaca, Mexico: A New Plan

Daniel Schávelzon

Book Reviews

A Review Essay of: The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012, by Anthony Aveni, and 2012: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya, by Mark Van Stone

Reviewed by John W. Hoopes

A Review of: The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era, by Alden A. Mosshammer

Reviewed by Sacha Stern

A Review of: Computer Graphics in Historical and Modern Sky Observations: Graphical Analysis, Visualisation, Modelling and Image Processing, by Georg Zotti

Reviewed by Alun Salt

Volume XXI, 2007-2008

Journals under Threat: A Joint Response from History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Editors

Placing Greek Temples: An Archaeoastronomical Study of the Orientation of Ancient Greek Religious Structures

Efrosyni Boutsikas

An Archaeoastronomical Survey of Major Inca Sites in Peru

Michael J. Zawaski and J. McKim Malville

An Overview of Australian Aboriginal Ethnoastronomy

Philip A. Clarke

Glyph G and the Yohualteuctin: Recovering the Mesoamerican Practice of Time Keeping and Nightly Astrology

Gerardo Aldana

The Margarita Structure Panels [at Copán] and the Maya Cosmogonic Couplet of Ancestral Emergence: Redux and Reemergence

John B. Carlson

Book Reviews

A Review Essay of The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian, edited by Candace S. Greene and Russell Thornton

Reviewed by Mark Hollabaugh

Ancient Astronomy: An Encyclopedia of Cosmologies and Myth, by Clive Ruggles

Reviews by Anthony F. Aveni and Bradley E. Schaefer

Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Pre-history to Easter Island, by Giulio Magli

Reviewed by Thomas Hockey

Les Astres dans les Textes Religieux en Égypte Antique et dans les Hymnes Orphiques, by Amanda-Alice Maravelia

Reviewed by Juan Antonio Belmonte

Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History, by Denis Feeney

Reviewed by John M. McMahon

Trabajos de Arqueoastronomía: Ejemplos de África, América, Europa y Oceanía, edited by José Lull

Reviewed by William Breen Murray

Reachable Stars Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America, by George E. Lankford

Reviewed by Von Del Chamberlain

John "Jack" A. Eddy (1931–2009)

Thomas Hockey

Volume XX, 2006

Interpreting Solstitial Alignments in Late Neolithic Wessex

Clive Ruggles

Neolithic Cosmology and the Monument Complex of Thornborough, North Yorkshire

Jan Harding, Ben Johnson and Glyn Goodrick

The Sun and the Moon as Marks of Time and Space Among the Mocovíes of the Argentinian Chaco

Sixto Ramón Giménez Benítez, Alejandro Martín López and Anahi Granada

Arrangement of Sacred Space in the Burial Area of the Bronze Age Dashti Kozy Cemetery (Central Asia)

Tamila Potyomkina; Translated by Alla Lushnikova

Which Equinox?

Antonio César González-García and Juan Antonio Belmonte

Book Reviews

Celestial Divination—Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination, edited by N. M. Swerdlow

Reviewed by Stanislaw Iwaniszewski

Unwritten Messages—Unwritten Messages from the Carpathian Basin, edited by Katalin Barlai and Ida Bonár-Kutzián

Reviewed by Stanislaw Iwaniszewski

Astronomy and Empire—Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes: The Cultural Origins of Inca Sky Watching by Brian S. Bauer and David S.P. Dearborn

Reviewed by Mariusz S. Ziolkowski

Volume XIX, 2005

Sacred Mountains, Ceremonial Sites, and Human Sacrifice Among the Incas

Johan Reinhard and Constanza Ceruti

Astronomical Observations from the Temple of the Sun

Alonso Mendez, Edwin L. Barnhart, Christopher Powell, and Carol Karasik

The Ambivalent Character of Xurawe: Venus-Related Ritual and Mythology Among West Mexican Indians

Johannes Neurath

Book Reviews

In Synchrony with the Heavens: Studies in Astronomical Timekeeping and Instrumentation in Medieval Islamic Civilization, Volume One: The Call of the Muezzin (Studies I-IX) by David A. King

Reviewed by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad

Exploring Ancient Skies: An Encyclopedic Survey of Archaeoastronomy by David H. Kelly and Eugene F. Milone

Reviewed by Thomas Hockey

Volume XVIII, 2004

Solstice Observations in Mangareva, French Polynesia: New Perspectives from Archaeology

Patrick V. Kirch

The Study of Astronomies in Cultures as Reflected in Dissertations and Theses

Stephen C. McCluskey

Reassessing Zapotec Astronomy

Anthony F. Aveni

Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Conference Selections

Introduction

Grant R. Aylesworth

Astronomical Interpretations of Ancient Maya E-Group Architectural Complexes

Grant R. Aylesworth

Glyphs D and E of the Lunar Series at Yaxchilan and Piedras Negras

Stanislaw Iwaniszewski

The Maya Katun Cycle and the Retrograde Periods of Jupiter and Saturn

Susan Milbrath

Astronomical Alignments in the Rio Bec Architecture

Ivan Sprajc

International Astronomical Union (IAU) Conference Selections

Introduction

Keith Snedegar

In Search of Mahutonga: A Possible Supernova Recorded in Maori Astronomical Traditions?

David A. Green and Wayne Orchiston

The Bamboo Stick Calendar of the Muong People in Vietnam

Nguyen Mau Tung and Nguyen Thi Vuong

Book Reviews

Cosmovisión, ritual e identidad de los pueblos indígenas de México by Johanna Broda and Félix Báez Jorge, editors
and La montaña en el paisaje ritual by Johanna Broda, Stanisław Iwaniszewski, and Arturo Montero, editors

Reviewed by William Breen Murray

Astronomy and Calendar in Ancient Rome: The Eclipse Festivals by Leonardo Magini

Reviewed by A. Lewis Licht and John T. Ramsey

The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories by John L. Heilbron

Reviewed by Stephen C. McCluskey

Volume XVII, 2002-2003

The Sun, Moon, and Venus among the Stars: Methods for Mapping Mayan Sidereal Space

Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock

Solstice Markers at "House of Two Suns"

Norman Hammond

Some Notes on Orientations of Prehistoric Stone Monuments in Western Polynesia and Micronesia

César Esteban

The Cairo Calendar as a Stellar Almanac

Patty A. Hardy

Ancient Egyptian Astronomy: Ursa Major—Symbol of Rejuvenation

Joan Relke and Allan Ernest

Geometry at Stonehenge

Marcello Ranieri

Archaeoastronomical Orientation of Seven Significant Ancient Hellenic Temples

Ioannis Liritzis and Helen Vassiliou

Book Reviews

Skywatchers by Anthony F. Aveni

Reviewed by Stanisław Iwaniszewski

Tombs, Temples and their Orientations: a new Perspective on Mediterranean Prehistory by Michael Hoskin

Reviewed by Juan Antonio Belmonte

Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship by Eleanor Mannikka

Reviewed by John McKim Malville

Il Designo della luce nell'archetitura cistercense. Allineamenti astronomici nelle abbazie di Chiaravalle della Colomba, Fontevivo e San Martino de' Bocci by Manuela Incerti

Reviewed by Lorenzo Baldasso

The Compostion of Kepler's Astronomia nova by James R. Voelkel

Reviewed by A. E. L. Davis

Film Review

The Mystery of Chaco Canyon by Anna Sofaer

Reviewed by Ruth Van Dyke

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