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Archaeoastronomy
The Journal of Astronomy in Culture

 

The Journal of the Center for Archaeoastronomy
Editor: John B. Carlson, Director
Co-Editors: David S. P. Dearborn, Clive L. N. Ruggles, Stephen McCluskey, Stanislaw Iwaniszewski
Book Review Editor: Stephen McCluskey, Department of History, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506

The Journal of The Center for Archaeoastronomy and ISAAC, the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture. The Center is an independent foundation created to advance research, education, and public awareness of archaeoastronomy, including ethnoastronomy; and to promote archaeoastronomy as a discipline within the sciences, the arts, and the humanities.

Also available is the online companion publication, Archaeoastronomy & Ethnoastronomy News, on the website of The Center for Archaeoastronomy. A&E News provides the latest news in archaeoastronomy, including conference notices, new books and web sites, as well as forthcoming events from the Center and ISAAC.

Submission Guidelines

Volume XX, 2006
Volume XIX, 2005
Volume XVIII, 2004
Volume XVII, 2002-2003
Archive

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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