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
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