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Archaeoastronomy of the Americas, Egypt, and Near East

Archaeoastronomy: A Biblography by David S. P. Dearborn

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William Romain
1995 In search of Hopwell Archaeoastronomy, Ohio Archaeologist 45(1): 35–41.

Robiou–Lamarche, Sebastian
1990 Island Carib Mythology and Astronomy, Latin American Indian Literature Journal 6(1): 36–54.

Watanabe, John M.
1983 In the world of the sun: a cognitive model of Mayan cosmology, Man ]18 (Dec. ‘83) p. 710–728

Wetherill, Chris
1991 Astronomical Imagery in Navajo Weaving, The Astronomy Quarterly 8:37–46.

Young, Jane
1991 Permiable Boundries: Ambiguity and Metaphor in Zuni Ceremonialism in Daily Life, Southern Folklore 48:159–189. A folklorist, Jane Young, has done a number of good pieces on Zuni ethno-astronomy.

Zeilik, Mike
1991 Historic Lunar Calendars in the Pueblo Southwest: Examples from Zuni and Hopi, The Astronomy Quarterly 8:89 et. seq.

Astronomy of Ancient Egypt

Bickerman, Elias J.
1984 Calendars and Chronology, The Cambridge History of Judaism I, eds. Davies, W. D. and Finkelstein, Louis. Ch. 3 :pp. 60–6:Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Dorner, Josef
1985 Tagesuhr Nachtuhr, Jahreshefte des Sterreichischen Archeologischen Instituts in Wien vol 56:27–37.

Ingham, M. F.
1969 The Length of the Sothic Cycle. Journal for Egyptian Archaeology 55:36–40.

Kitchen, Kenneth A.
1987 The Basics of Egyptian Chronology in Relation to the Bronze Age. High, Middle or Low? pp. 37–55. ed. Paul. Paul Str Frlag, Gothenburg.

Luft, Ulrich.
1992 Remarks of a Philologist on Egyptian Chronology, Egypten und Levante 3:109–114.

Neugebauer, O.
1975 A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy, 3 vols. Springer Verlag, Berlin–Heidelberg–New York.

Neugebauer, Otto, and Richard A. Parker
1960–1969 Egyptian Astronomical Texts, 3 vols., Brown University Press, Providence, London.

Nilsson, Martin Persson
1920 Primitive Time Reckoning. C. W. K. Gleerup, Lund.

Parker, Richard A.
1950 The Calendars of Ancient Egypt, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, No. 2:Oriental Institute, Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago
1971 The Calendars and Chronology, The Legacy of Egypt, ed. Harris, J. R.,pp. 13–20. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.

Van der Waerden, B. L.
1974 Science Awakening II. The Birth of Astronomy. Noordhoff International Publishing, Leyden and Oxford Univ. Press, New York

Wells, R. A.
1985 Sothis and the Satet Temple on Elephantine: A Direct Connection, Studien zur Egyptischen Kultur 12:255–302.
1992 The Mythology of Nut and the Birth of Ra, Studien zur Egyptischen Kultur 19:305–321.
1993 Origin of the Hour and the Gates of the Duat, Studien zur Egyptischen Kultur 20:305–326.
1995 Egypt: Dawn of Astronomy Astronomy in Antiquity, British Museum Press, London.

Near Eastern and Biblical Regions

Taylor, J. G
1993 Yahweh and the Sun: Biblical and Archaeological Evidence for Sun Worship in Ancient Israel. Sheffield: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament.

Clagett, Marshall
1995 Ancient Egyptian science: a source book: Calendars Clocks, and Astronomy. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.

Mahbubi, ‘Ubayd Allah ibn Mas’ud (d. 1346 or 7)
1995 An Islamic response to Greek astronomy: kitab Ta’dil hay’at al–aflak of Sadr al–Shari’a, edited with translation and commentary by Ahmad S. Dallal. Leiden; New York: E.J. Brill. Series title: Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science vol 23.

Saliba, George
1994. A history of Arabic astronomy: planetary theories during the golden age of Islam by New York: New York University Press, Series title: New York University Studies in Near Eastern Civilization; no. 19.

Samso, Julio
1994 Islamic astronomy and medieval Spain, Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Variorum.

Mohammad Ilyas. Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan
1996 Islamic astronomy and science development: glorious past, challenging future, Malaysia: Pelanduk Publications.

Pacholczyk, J
1996 Music and Astronomy in the Muslim World, Leonardo 29(2):145–150.

Rashed, Roshdi in collaboration with Regis Morelon
1996 Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science: Vol. 1 Astronomy – Theoretical and Applied. London: Routledge.

Hughes, David
1979 The Star of Bethlehem, Walker, New York.

Hartner, Willy
1965 The Earliest History of the Constellations in the Near East. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 24:1–16.

Molnar, M R
1995 The Magi’s Star from the Perspective of Ancient Astrological Practices, Quarterly Journal of the RAS 36:109–126

Gingrich, A.
1994 Sdwestarabische Sternenkalender. Wiener Beitr ge zur Ethnologie und Anthropologie. Vol. 7.

King, D. A.
1985 The sacred direction in Islam, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 10(4):315–328.

Varisco, D. M
1990 Folk astronomy and the season in the Gulf., al–Ma’thurat al–Sha’biyya 16:7–29.
1991 The origins of the anwa Arab tradition. Studia Islamica 74:5–28.
1993 The agricultural marker stars in Yemeni folklore, Asian Folklore Studies 52:119–142.
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