Archaeoastronomy in the Americas

Malville, J. McKim
1993 Prehistoric astronomy in the Southwest. Rev. ed. Boulder, Colo.: Johnson Books.

McCoy, Ron
1992 Archaeoastronomy: skywatching in the native american southwest, Flagstaff, Az.: Museum of Northern Arizona, c., Series title: Plateau (Flagstaff, Ariz.: 1939) v. 63, No. 2.

Monroe, Jean Guard and Ray A. Williamson
1987 They dance in the sky: Native American star myths. Illustrations by Edgar Stewart. Boston, Houghton Mifflin.

Opperman, Renee
1980 Astronomical implications of the architecture at Casa Grande, Arizona. Greeley, Colo.: Museum of Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado.

Sherrod, P. Clay and Martha Ann Rolingson
1987 Surveyors of the ancient Mississippi Valley: modules and alignments in prehistoric mound sites. Fayetteville, AR: Arkansas Archeological Survey. Series title: Arkansas Archeological Survey research series; no. 28.

Griffin-Pierce, Trudy
1993 Earth is My Mother, Sky is My Father; Space Time and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press. Trudy Griffin–Pierce has discussed celestial symbolism in Navajo healing rituals, but it falls somewhat short of the astronomical expectations of its subtitle Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sand–painting.

Urton, Gary
1981 At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky: An Andean Cosmology. Austin, University of Texas Press.

Williamson, Ray A
1984 Living the sky: the cosmos of the American Indian, line illustrations by Snowden Hodges. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (also 198:Univ of Oklahoma Press).

Journal Articles

Aveni, A. F.
1981 Archaeoastronomy in the Maya Region: A Review of the Past Decade, Archaeoastronomy, 3 ( JHA, 12: S1–S16).

Aveni, A. F., E. Calnek, and H. Hartung
1987 Myth, Environment, and the orientation of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, American Antiquity 53:287–309.

Bricker, Harvey M.
1983 Prediction of solar eclipses. Current Anthropology 24:1–18

Carrasco, David
1987 Star gatherers and wobbling suns: astral symbolism in the Aztec tradition, History of Religions 26:279–294.

Dearborn, David
1986 The Death of an Inca, Griffith Observer 50(8):17–20.
1987 Blinded by the Light, Archaeoastronomy 10:24–27.
Dearborn, David and Katherina Schreiber

1986 Here Comes the Sun: The Cuzco–Macchu Picchu Connection, Archaeoastronomy 9:15–37.
Dearborn, David, Katherina Schreiber, and Ray White
1987 Intimachy, A December Solstice Observatory, American Antiquity 52(2):346–352.

Dearborn, David, and Ray White
1983 The Torreon at Macchu Picchu as an Observatory, Archaeoastronomy, (JHA, 5:S37–S49).

David Druker
1987 The Mexican (Aztec) and Western Yucatec (Landa) Maya 365–day Calendars: A perpetual Relation, American Antiquity 52:816–819.

Farrer, Claire R.
1990 The sun’s in its heaven, all’s not right with the world: Rejoinder to Swan. The American Indian Quarterly, 14(5):155. (response to Edith Swan’s articles in vol. 12(3):4)

Iwaniszewshi, Stanislaw
1994 Archaeology and Archaeoastronomy of Mount Tlaloc, Mexico, a Reconstruction. Latin American Antiquity 5(2):158–176.

Lounsbury, Floyd G.
1981 Maya Numeration, Computation, and Calendrical Astronomy, Dictionary of Scientific Biography 15:759–818.

MacPherson, H. G.
1987 The Maya lunar season, Antiquity 61:440–449.

Malville, J. McKim
1991 Prehistoric Astronomy of the American Southwest, The Astronomy Quarterly 8:1–36.

1993 Astronomy and Social Integration Among the Anasazi: Proceedings of the Anasazi Symposium, 1991. Ed Jack E. Smith and A Hutchinson, Mesa Verde Museum Association, pp 155–166
Malville, J. McKim, Frank Eddy, and Carol Ambruster

1991 Lunar Standstills at Chimney Rock, Archaeoastronomy, 22(JHA, 16:S43–S50).

Mixon, Benjamin and Raymond White
1991 Skywatchers of the Salt River Valley Hohokam, The Astronomy Quarterly 8(4): 245–254.

McCluskey, Steve
1990 Calendars and Symbolism: Functions of Observation in Hopi Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy, 15( JHA, 21: S1–S16).

Murray, William Breen and Juan Pablo Camacho Nunez
1990 Caballito Blanco (Oaxaca): Rock Art and Astronomy in Context, American Indian Rock Art Vol. 16, Ch 13. ed. S Turpin, San Miguel California, American Rock Art Research Association.

Robbins, R. and R Westmoreland
1991 Astronomical Imagery and numbers in Mogollon Pottery, The Astronomy Quarterly 8:47 et. seq.

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