Archaeoastronomy and the Maya /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aldana y Villalobos, Gerardo (Author, Editor)
Other Authors:	Barnhart, Edwin Lawrence (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.
Edition:	Paperback edition.
Subjects:	Maya astronomy. Archaeoastronomy > Central America. Archaeoastronomy > Mexico. Archaeoastronomy. Central America. Mexico.

Table of Contents:

Cosmic order at Chocolá: implications of solar observations of the eastern horizon at Chocolá, Suchitepéquez, Guatemala / Harold H. Green
Teotihuacan architectural alignments in the central Maya lowlands? / Ivan Sprajc
The astronomical architecture of Palenque's Temple of the Sun / Alonso Mendez, Carol Karasik, Edwin L. Barnhart and Christopher Powell
An oracular hypothesis: the Dresden Codex Venus table and the cultural translation of science / Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos
Centering the world: zenith and nadir passages at Palenque / Alonso Mendez and Carol Karasik
The many faces of Venus in Mesoamerica / Susan Milbrath
Glyphs G and F: the cycle of nine, the lunar nodes, and the draconic month / Michael J. Grofe
Epilogue: Mayan astronomers at work / Gerardo Aldana y Villalobos.