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Title:

Astronomy and ceremony in the prehistoric Southwest, revisited : collaborations in cultural astronomy / edited by Gregory E. Munson, Todd W. Bostwick, and Tony Hull.

Publisher:

Maxwell Museum of AnthropologyUniversity of New Mexico,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxii, 163 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Indian astronomy--Southwest, New.
Ethnoastronomy--Southwest, New.
Archaeoastronomy--Southwest, New.
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities.
Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Munson, Gregory E., editor of compilation.
Bostwick, Todd W., editor of compilation.
Hull, Tony, 1943- editor of compilation.
Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, publisher and issuing body.
Conference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest (2nd : 2011 : Maxwell Museum of Anthropology)

Notes:

Selected papers from the 2011 Conference on Archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest (CAASW), held June 16-18, 2011, in the Hibben Center at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. (Preface and Society for Cultural Anthropology in the American Southwest's website) Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Dedication -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface / Gregory E. Munson -- Acknowledgments / Tony Hull -- Foreword / W. James Judge -- Under Southwest skies : origin and evolution of archaeoastronomy of the American Southwest / E.C. Krupp -- The Morning Star/rain/maize complex in the American Southwest / Polly Schaafsma -- The enigmas of Fajada Butte / J. McKim Malville -- Heaven on earth : the Chaco North Road / James M. Copeland -- Gobernador Knob and Huerfano Mesa : a Navajo landscape / David M. Brugge -- An archaeological and geological study of three shadow-casting stones at the V Bar V rock art site in northern Arizona / Todd W. Bostwick, Paul A. Lindberg, and Kenneth J. Zoll -- New evidence of Tewa-style moiety organization in the Mesa Verde region, Colorado / Robert L. Bernhart and Scott G. Ortman -- A proposed solar/lunar observation station at Salmon Pueblo / Brooks M. Marshall and Larry L. Baker -- Petroglyph based archaeoastronomy sites in the northern San Juan region of Colorado / Virgina Wolf and Edward Wheeler -- Using architectural documentation to assess architecture and features associated with astronomical observations : case studies at Mesa Verde National Park / Gregory E. Munson -- Solar/lunar archaeological alignments : a method of evaluating a set of observations for the likelihood of false positives / Tony Hull, Carol Armbruster, and Elizabeth Jewell -- Cultural astronomy in the field / Jarita Holbrook -- Discussion: Looking up and down and asking how and why : challenges for modern archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest / Gregory E. Munson, Todd W. Bostwick, and Tony Hull, editors.

Series:

Anthropological papers / Maxwell Museum of Anthropology ; No. 9

ISBN:

091253513X
9780912535135

OCLC:

(OCoLC)877853063

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)