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David Dearborn's Bibliography - Edited Volumes

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Edited Volumes Aveni, Anthony F.
1977 Native American Astronomy. Austin, University of Texas Press.
1980 Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico, foreword by Owen Gingerich. Austin: University of Texas Press, series title: The Texas Pan American series.
1982 Archaeoastronomy in the New World, American primitive astronomy. Proceedings of an international conference held at Oxford University, September 1981 Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press.
1990 The Lines of Nazca, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, series title: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society v. 183.
1992 The Sky in Mayan literature, New York: Oxford University Press.

Aveni, Anthony F. and Gordon Brotherston
1983 Calendars in Mesoamerica and Peru: Native American computations of time. Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists, 44th meeting in Manchester
1982 Oxford, England. B.A.R., series title: BAR international series; 174.

Aveni, Anthony F. and Gary Urton
1982 Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics, New York, N.Y.: New York Academy of Sciences, series title: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; v. 385.

Carlson, John B. and W. James Judge.
1987 Astronomy and Ceremony in the Prehistoric Southwest, Albuquerque, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, series title: Papers of the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology; no. 2.

Malville, J McKim and Gary Matlock
1993 The Chimney Rock Archaeological Symposium, held October 20–21, 1990. United States Department of Agriculture, General Technical Report RM–227.

Williamson, Ray A.
1981 Archaeoastronomy in the Americas, Los Altos, Calif.: Ballena Press, series title: Ballena Press anthropological papers; no. 22.

Williamson, Ray A. and Claire R. Farrer
1992 Earth & sky: visions of the cosmos in Native American folklore. 1st ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Ray Williamson & Claire Farrer present a good collection of essays that attempt to present a Native American perspective. As the subtitle suggests, it draws heavily on folklore.

Ziolkowski, Mariusz and Robert Sadowski
1989 Time and Calendars in the Inca Empire, BAR International Series 454. Oxford, British Archaeological Reports.

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