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Archaeoastronomy: A Biblography by David S. P. Dearborn

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Aveni, Anthony F. (editor)
1986 World Archaeoastronomy: selected papers from the 2nd Oxford International Conference on Archaeoastronomy, held at Merida, Yucatan, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York

Chapman–Rietschi, P.A.L.
1995 The Colour of Sirius in Ancient Times, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 36:337–350.

Dearborn, David and Bernard Bell
1985 New Tools for Ancient Skies, Archaeoastronomy 7:92– . An article discussing some of the types of measurements made in archaeoastronomy investigations.

Gurshtein, Alex
1994 Dating for Constellation Making due to the Phenomenon of Precession Doklady Akademii Nauk 337(6): 741–744.

Manchester, R. N.
1992 Archaeoastronomy–Dating Supernova Remnants, Nature, 356(6371):660–661

Ruggles, Clive (editor)
1995 Archaeoastronomy in the 1990s, Group D Publications, Loughborough, UK., 364pp. It contains 31 papers from Oxford 3 conference.

Ruggles, Clive and Nicholas Saunders (editors)
1990 Astronomies and Cultures, (ISBN 0–87081–319–6). Composed of material presented at the second Oxford conference on archaeoastronomy. It is available from University press of Colorado, PO Box 84:Niwot CO, 80544.

Schaefer, B E, I A Ahmad, L Doggett L
1993 Records for Young Moon Sightings Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 34(1): 53–56.

Schaefer, B. E.
1995 Supernova 185 is really a nova plus comet P/Swift–Tuttle, Astronomical Journal 110:1793–1795.

Popular

Aveni, Anthony 1993 Ancient Astronomers in Exploring the Ancient World. Smithsonian series, edited by Jeremy Sabloff and it is published in Montreal St Remy and by the Smithsonian Washington DC. 176 pages.

Brocious, Dan
1995 Stone and Sky Stardate 23(3): 4–9 May/June, a popular article on Native American Medicine Wheels.

Carlson, John
1993 Star Wars of Ancient Mexico, Archaeology, Nov/Dec, 56–70.

Cuff, Kevin, Edna DeVore, John Erickson, et al.
199X Astronomy of the Americas (Volume 11) and Stonehenge (Volume 12) are part of a 12 volume set of planetarium activities, produced for the Lawrence Hall of Science Astronomy of the Americas includes material on the astronomy of the Hupa people, the Medicine Wheel in Wyoming, Chaco Canyon, the Maya, and the Inca. Copies may be obtained from Eureka!, Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley CA 9472:(510) 642–1016.

Hadingham, Evan
1984 Early man and the cosmos, Walker and Co,New York.

Krupp, E. C.
1977 In Search of Ancient Astronomies edited by E. C. Krupp. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977:c1978.
1984 Echoes of the Ancient Skie.: the astronomy of lost civilizations, New York: New American Library.
1984 Archaeoastronomy and the Roots of Science, published by Westview Press for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boulder Colorado, series title: AAAS selected symposium; 71.
1991 Beyond the blue horizon: myths and legends of the sun, moon, stars, and planets, New York, NY: Harper Collins.

Krupp, Ed
1996 Springing Down the Banister, Sky and Telescope, March, 59–61.

Marshack, Alexander
1972 The roots of civilization; the cognitive beginnings of man’s first art, symbol, and notation. [1st ed.], McGraw–Hill New York

Wertime, Richard and Angela Schuster
1993 Written in the Stars: Celestial Origin of Maya Creation Myth Archaeology 46(4): 26–35.

Whitlock, Greg
1995 Digging into Science: Archaeoastronomy in a multicultural Science Curriculum, Mercury 24(4) July/Aug, p 32.

Eastlick, Pamela
1995 Astronomy at the Cultural Crossroads, Mercury 24(5):No :Sept/Oct, pp. 16–23. On the Pacific islands of Micronesia, people often feel part neither of the global village nor of their traditional culture. Many believe science is incompatible with their way of life. But astronomy educators are trying to prove otherwise.

Supplementary Material

Thomas, David Hurst
1989 Archaeology, 2nd Edition. Holt Rinehart & Winston, Fort Worth. A text that includes archaeological methodology.

Nordenskiold, Erland
1929 The American Indian as an Inventor, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5:273–309. An article broadly discussing some of the technology of Native Americans.

Hetherington, Norriss S., editor
1993 Encyclopedia of Cosmology: Historical, Philosophical, and Scientific Foundations of Modern Cosmology, New York: Garland Pub. In this work, Steve McClusky has looked at the theoretical frameworks of Native American Cosmologies, discussing how they observed and understood the heavens and passed on that understanding.

Hetherington, B.
1995 A Chronicle of Pre–Telescopic Astronomy John Wiley and Sons, 274 pp, ISBN 0 471 95942 1,.

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