Archaeoastronomy Archives

Volume XVI, 2001

Solar Geometry in Italian Cistercian Architecture
Manuela Incerti
The Orientations of Prehistoric Temples in Malta and Gozo
John Cox
Indications of a Possible Astronomical Orientation of an Archaeological Feature in Pretalayotic Mallorca (Spain)
Mark Van Strydonck, William H. Waldren, Michael Hoskin
Heiau Orientations and Alignments on Kaua'i
Clive L. N. Ruggles
Early Greek Astronomy in the Oral Tradition and the Search for Archaeological Correlates
Anthony F. Aveni and Albert Ammerman

Book Reviews

Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook by Theony Condos
Reviewed by John McMahon
The Comet of 44 B.C. and Caesar's Funeral Games by John T. Ramsey and A. Lewis Licht
Reviewed by Bradley E. Schaefer
Ptolemy's Almagest translated and annotated by G. J. Toomer
Reviewed by Peter Pesic
Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology by Sara J. Schechner
Reviewed by Robert A. Hatch
Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo by Eileen Reeves
Reviewed by Valerie Shrimplin
Time, History, and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico by Ross Hassig
Reviewed by Elizabeth Newsome

Volume XV, Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter 2000

Oxford VI and SEAC99 proceedings, La Laguna, Canary Islands
Conference Introduction
Foreword
The Inconstant Moon: Lunar Astronomies in Different Cultures
Stephen C. McCluskey
Recent Advances in Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy
Jesús Galindo Trejo
Night Gallery: The Function, Origin, and Evolution of Constellations
E. C. Krupp
Astronomy in Island Cultures
César Esteban
From the Atlas to the Caucasus
Juan Antonio Belmonte
Some Marks of Time
Arnold Le Beuf
The Contributions of the Ethnosciences to Archaeoastronomical Research
William Breen Murray
New Methods and Techniques for Historical Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy
Bradley E. Schaefer
Astronomy and Landscape
Johanna Broda
The General and the Specific
Clive L. N. Ruggles

Volume XIV: 2, Fall/Winter 1999

Archaeology and Astronomy: A View from Scotland
Patrick Ashmore
Astronomy, Oral Literature, and Landscape in Ancient Hawai'i
Clive Ruggles
Archaeoastronomy in Traditional Areas of Eurasia: A Review Paper
Stanislaw Iwaniszewski

Book Reviews

Volume XIV:1, Spring/Summer 1999

Astronomy in Culture
John B. Carlson, David S. P. Dearborn, Stephen C. McCluskey, and Clive L. N. Ruggles
Archaeoastronomy and the History of Science
Michael J. Crowe and Matthew F. Dowd
Maya Astronomy: What We Know and How We Know It
Barbara Tedlock
Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture in Japan: Paving the Way to Interdisciplinary Study
Stephen L. Renshaw and Saori Ihara
Astronomy in Historical Studies
Bradley E. Schaefer
A Southeastern Native American Tradition: The Ofo Calendar and Related Sky Lore
Jerry King and Carol Ventura
Pilgrimage and the Equinox "Serpent of Light and Shadow" Phenomenon at the Castillo, Chichén Itzá, Yucatán
John B. Carlson

Book Reviews

Volumes XII-XIII, 1996

Songs from the Sky: Indigenous Astronomical and Cosmological Traditions of the World
edited by Von Del Chamberlain, John B. Carlson and M. Jane Young

This volume is not available from UT Press.

Preface
Clive Ruggles
Foreword
John B. Carlson
Introduction
Von Del Chamberlain & M. Jane Young

I. Ethnoastronomy Perspectives

The Sky is an Ethnographic Treasure Trove
Von Del Chamberlain
The Color of Cosmic Order
Edwin C. Krupp
Ethnoastronomy and the Problem of Interpretation: A Zuni Example
M. Jane Young

II. Western Astronomical Traditions

Ethnoastronomy and the Arab Agricultural Almanac
Daniel Martin Varisco

III.Native Astronomical Traditions of the Americas

The Seven Sisters
N. Scott Momaday
Raven's Universe
David Vogt
Astronomy in Pueblo and Navajo World Views
M. Jane Young
Using a Planetarium to Study Navajo Star Lore
Mark Bunker Peterson
Black God: God of Fire, God of Starlight
Trudy Griffin-Pierce
Origin and Meaning of Navajo Star Ceilings
Von Del Chamberlain and Polly Schaafsma
Transformations of the Mesoamerican Venus Turtle Carapace War Shield: A Study in Ethnoastronomy
John B. Carlson
When is a Month?: The Moon and Mescaleros
Claire R. Farrer
Ethnoastronomy of the North American Plains
Alice B. Kehoe
Lakota Star Knowledge
Ronald Goodman
Sky Tales from the Anishinaubaeg
Basil H. Johnston
Venus in the East and West
Stanisław Iwaniszewski
Tzotzil Maya Cosmology
Weldon Lamb
Mixe Calendrics, Ritual and Astronomy
Frank J. Lipp
Constructions of the Ritual-Agricultural Calendar in Pacariqtambo, Peru
Gary Urton
Mythic Substitution and the Stars: Aspects of Shipibo and Quechua Ethnoastronomy Compared
Peter G. Roe
Amahuaca Astronomy and Star Lore
Joseph Holt Woodside
Búzios Island: Knowledge and Belief Among a Fishing and Agricultural community at the coast of the State of São Paolo
Marcio D'Olne Campos
Tropical Tribal Astronomy: Ethnohistorical and Ethnographic Notes
Edmundo Magaña
Arawak Constellations: A Bibliographic Survey
Fabiola Jara

IV. Astronomical Traditions of the Non-Western World

Monotony and Surprise in Tabwa Cosmology
Allen F. Roberts
The Moon Besmirched
Dominique Zahan
The Haphazard Astronomy of the Mursi
Clive Ruggles and David Turton
Surya Puja Temples of South India
J. McKim Malville and R. N. Swaminathan
The Planetariu and the Plough: Interpreting Star Calendars of Rural Java
Gene Ammarell
Applied Ethnoastronomy: Navigating by the Stars Across the Pacific
Ben Finney
The Woodlark Island Calendar: Contexts for Interpretation
Frederick H. Damon
Celestial Lore of some Australian Tribes
Norman B. Tindale

Volume XI, 1989-1993

The Calendar of the Toba-Batak of Sumatra
Johs. Winkler
The Batak Porhalaan Traditional Calendar of Sumatra
Linda Amy Kimball
Mescalero Apache Ethnoastronomy: Problems and Praxis
Claire R. Farrer, Gene Ammarell and Bernard Second
Ceremonial Features of Yellow Jacket, 5MT-5
J. McKim Malville and Kenneth R. Brownsberger
Astronomy and the Limits of Vision
Bradley E. Schaefer
Confluences of Astronomical Spectacles
Bradley E. Schaefer
Did Muhammad Observe the Canterbury Meteoroid Swarm?
Imad A. Ahmad
The Dawn Sky on Lailat-ul-qadr (The Night of Power)
Imad A. Ahmad
The Historical Identity of a Mass Conjunction Inferred from the Madrid Codex
Robert L. Hall
"As it Is Above, So Shall it Be Below": The Blueprint of Civilization
J. Saul
At the Crossroads of Astronomy and Archaeology: An Appraisal of Baudez' Appraisal of Archaeoastronomy at Copan (and elsewhere)
Anthony F. Aveni, Michael Closs and Horst Hartung

Book Reviews

Volume X, 1987-1988

Imagines Mundi: Narrative, Ritual, and Architectural Exemplars of Batammaliba Cosmology
Suzanne Preston Blier
Rock Music and the Zaose Solar Deity
Allen F. Roberts
The Traditional Tiruray Zodiac: The Celestial Calendar of a Philippine Swidden and Foraging People
Stuart A. Schlegel
Astronomical Alignments at Cajon Mesa Ruins, Hovenweep National Monument: An Update
Ray A. Williamson and Carol Ambruster
Calendric Keystone (?) The Skidi Pawnee Chart of the Heavens: A New Interpretation
Kenneth C. Leonard, Jr.
Venus and Temple 22 at Copan: Revisited
Ivan Sprajc
Universal Meteor Metaphors and Their Occurrence in Mesoamerican Astronomy
Carlos Trenary
The Influence of the Skies on Plains Indian Vision Quests and Shields
Ixchel Levendosky
Rediscovering the Past: Application of Computers to the Astronomical Dating of Kudurru SB22 of the Louvre Museum
Vladimir S. Tuman and Robert Hoffman
An Ancient Zapotec Calendrical Cosmogram
Sylvia Meluzin

Book Reviews

Volume IX, 1986

Here Comes the Sun: The Cuzco-Machu Picchu Connection
David S. P. Dearborn and Katharina J. Schrieber
Easter Island's "Solar Ranging Device," Ahu Huri A Urenga and Vicinity
William Liller and Julio Duarte D.
Celestial Happenings on Easter Island: A.D. 760-837
William Liller
Mescalero Apache Terminology for Venus
Claire R. Farrer
Ethnoastronomy in Navajo Sandpaintings of the Heavens
Trudy Griffin-Pierce
Organization of Space in the Anasazi Ceremonial Site of Yellow Jacket, 5MT-5
J. McKim Malville and Mark Neupert
The Ixtapaluca Archaeological Monument
Roberto Barrie
Keeping a Seasonal Calendar at Pueblo Bonito
Michael Zeilik
Model of Planetary Configuration in the Mahabharata: An Exercise in Archaeoastronomy
Virendra Nath Sharma
The 88 Lunar Month Pattern of Solar and Lunar Eclipses and Its Relationship to the Maya Calendar
Robert K. Smither

Book Reviews

Volume VIII, 1985

Brainport Bay: A Prehistoric Calendrical Site in Argyllshire, Scotland
E. W. MacKie, P. F. Gladwin and A. E. Roy
Astronomical Traditions of Ancient Ireland and Britain
Ronald Hicks
Hawks, Meteorology and Astronomy in Quiche-Maya Agriculture
Barbara Tedlock
The Juniper Cave Summer Solstice Pictograph
Merle F. Walker
Halley's Comet Legends Among the Great Lakes Ojibwa Indians
Thor Conway
Dominant Traditions in Swedish Comet Lore
Bjorn Hedberg
Touching the Sky: Conversations with Four Contemporary Artists
Janet Saad-Cook

Book Reviews

Volume VII, 1984

New Archaeoastronomical Discoveries in China
Xi Zezong
The Mesoamerican Rabbit in the Moon: An Influence from Han China?
Charles R. Wicke
The Tome of Antiochus Revisited: Planetary Alignments and the Deification of the King
V. S. Tuman
A Possible Equinoctial Sun-Sighting Station at Tsiping, New Mexico
Michael Zeilik
Summer Solstice at Casa Rinconada: Calendar, Hierophany, or Nothing?
Michael Zeilik
Numerical Characteristics of Three Engraved Bison Scapulae from the Texas Gulf Coast
William Breen Murray
The Origins of Astronomy and Astrology in Mesopotamia
Robert Chadwick
New Tools for Ancient Skies
David S. P. Dearborn and Bernard Bell
Armenian Astronomy in the Bronze Age
Joseph G. Ouzounian
Astronomy in Taino Mythology
Sabastian Robiou-Lamarche

Book Reviews

Volume VI, 1983

Navajo Constellations in Literature, Art, Artifact and a New Mexico Rock Art Site
Von Del Chamberlain
Sky Symbolism in a Navajo Rock Art Site, Chaco Canyon
Ray A. Williamson
Wijiji at Chaco Canyon: A Winter Solstice Sunrise and Sunset Station
Michael Zeilik and Richard Elston
The Reliability of Historical Maps of Earthworks in the Ohio Valley
Thomas H. Robertson
A Malecite Calendar of the Pre-Contact Period
Roger B. Ray
A Possible Aboriginal Winter Solstice Viewing Site on the Southern Oregon Coast
Roberta L. Hall and Robert D. Hall
The Ancient Mexican Astronomical Apparatus: An Iconographical Criticism
Maarten E. R. G. N. Jansen and G. Aurora Perez
A Painted Venus Glyph in the Tower of Palenque
Karl Herbert Mayer
Chinese "Astronomical" Jade Disks: The Pi
Bradley E. Schaefer
Invention of the Sky
Edmundo Magana and Fabiola Jara
The Mallia Table: Kernos or Clock?
Charles F. Herberger
A Computer Study of Babylonian Almanacs
N. A. Roughton
The Solstice Eclipses of Stonehenge II
Jack H. Robinson
Stonehenge: The Aubrey Holes and the Avenue
R. J. C. Atkinson
Cultural Implications of the Eclipse of 16 February 1980
Peter Seitel

Volume V, Number 4 October-December, 1982

Joshua's "Standing Sun" at Gibeon: Biblical Archaeoastronomy?
Cary James
Report on Fieldwork in Pacariqtambo, Peru
Gary Urton
New Pecked Cross Designs Discovered at Teotihuacan
Stanislaw Iwaniszewski

Book Reviews

Megalithic Science by Douglas C. Hegge
Reviewed by A.S. Thom
The Boyne Valley Vision by Martin Brennan
Reviewed by Ronald Hicks
Megalithomania by John Michell
Reviewed by R.J.C. Atkinson
Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics by A.F. Aveni and G. Urton, eds.
Reviewed by LeRoy E. Doggett

Volume V, Number 3, July-September 1982

Early Chinese Positional Astronomy; The Guoyu Astronomical Record
David W. Pankenier
Note on the Discovery of Two New Pecked Cross Petroglyphs
A.F. Aveni and H. Hartung
Solar Eclipse Tracks of Possible Archaeological Interest
Katherine Bracher

Book Reviews

The Transformation of the Hummingbird by Eva Hunt
Reviewed by Gary H. Gossen
Sundancing and Stargazing A Review Essay of:
People of the Sacred Mountain by Father Peter John Powell
Lakota Belief and Ritual by James R. Walker and
Sundancing at Rosebud and Pine Ridge by Thomas E. Mails
Reviewed by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Ceremonies of the Pawnee by James R. Murie
Reviewed by Von Del Chamberlain
African Cosmology A Review Essay of
The Four Moments of the Sun by Robert Farris Thompson and Joseph Cornet
Chiefship and Cosmology by Randall M. Packard and
Spirits and Power by Hubert Bucher
Reviewed by Suzanne Preston Blier

Volume V, Number 2, April-June 1982

Libyan Desert Glass and the Prehistory of the Great Sand Sea
John W. Olsen
The Prehistoric Basque Week of Three Days
Alessandro Bausani
A Comparison between Carib, Tukano/Cubeo and Western Astronomy
Edmundo Magana

Book Reviews

Stonehenge and Its Mysteries by Michael Balfour
Review by R.J.C. Atkinson
Viracocha by Arthur A. Demarest
And
Wirachocha y Ayar by Henrique Urbano
Review by Elizabeth P. Benson
Archaeoastronomy in the Americas edited by Ray A. Williamson
Review by J. Charles Kelley
Computational Spherical Astronomy by L.G. Taff
Review by LeRoy E. Doggett

Volume V, Number 1, January-March 1982

The "Binding of the Years," The Pleiades, and the Nadir Sun
E.C. Krupp
A Deposit from Pueblo Bonito Having Possible Astronomical Significance
Jonathan E. Reyman
"In the Beginning…" The Ussher Chronology and Other Resaissance Ideas Dating the Creation
Ronald Lane Reese, Steven M. Everett and Edwin D. Craun
The Basque League and Terrestrial Geometry
Roslyn M. Frank

Book Reviews

Early Sea-Craft, Transoceanic Voyagers and Stone Age Navigators
A Review Article of:
The Sea-Craft of Prehistory by Paul Johnstone
Early Man and the Ocean by Thor Heyerdahl
Man's Conquest of the Pacific by Peter Bellwood
Reviewed by Ben R. Finney
Megalithic Rings by A. and A.S. Thom and A. Burl
Reviewed by Clive Ruggles
Al-Biruni Commemorative Volume
Edited by H.M. Said
Reviewed by I. Dean Ahmad
Islamic Geomancy and a Thirteenth-Century Divinatory Device by E. Savage Smith and Marion B. Smith
Reviewed by David A. King

Volume IV, Number 4, October-December 1981

The Structure of Aztec History
Emily Umberger
Holes in the Argument
Aubrey Burl
Passage Stellified: Speculation Upon Archaeoastronomy in Southeastern Zaire
Allen F. Roberts
Venus Dates Revisited
Michael P. Closs

Book Reviews

The First Stargazers
Reviewed by Ray A. Williamson
The Big Missouri Winter Count
Reviewed by Von Del Chamberlain
Vermont's Stone Chambers: An Inquiry into their Past
Reviewed by John R. Cole
"The Comet is Coming"
Reviewed by John C. Brandt

Volume IV, Number 3, July-September 1981

Archaeoastronomy Symposium at Oxford
Astronomical Alignments at the Fort Smith Medicine Wheel
Jack H. Robinson
A Note on Eastern U.S. Site Orientations
Terry Stocker
Solstitial Alignments of the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque
Neal S. Anderson and Moises Morales
A Solar Alignment of the Palace Tower at Palenque
Neal S. Anderson, Moises Morales and Alfonso Morales
Astrology Revisited
Review of Recent Books
T. Scott Smith
State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan
Emily Umberger
Third Palenque Round Table, 1978
Mary Ellen Miller

Volume IV, Number 2, April-June 1981

The Earthwatch/University of Arizona Field Expeditions to Machu Picchu
Raymond E. White
The New York Academy of Sciences Conference: Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics
Summarized by Owen Gingerich
The Solar Observatory at Xochiacalco and the Maya Farmer's Almanac
Neal S. Anderson
The Las Bocas Pectoral and the Venus Count
Arthur Schlak

Book Reviews

Moving in the Wrong Circles: A Review Article of Stone Circles of the Peak by John Barnatt
And
Needles of Stone by Tom Graves
And
Monumenta Britannica by John Aubrey
Reviewed by Aubrey Burl
The Enigma of Stonehenge by John Fowles and Barry Brukoff
Reviewed by Aubrey Burl
Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany by A. and A.S. Thom
Reviewed by Ronald Hicks
Prehistoric Heritage by Feliz R. Paturi
Reviewed by Evan Hadingham

Volume IV, Number 1, January-March 1981

Investigation into the Possible Astronomical Alignments of the Copper Age Temples in Malta
George Agius and Frank Ventura
CTB 80: Evidence for a Ninth Historical Supernova?
P.E. Angerhofer
Some Important Publications on Early Chinese Astronomy from China and Japan, 1978-1980
Nathan Sivin

Book Reviews

With Stars and Waves in the Pacific: A Review Article of
The Voyaging Stars: Secrets of the Pacific Island Navigators
David Lewis
And Hokule'a: The Way to Tahiti by Ben R. Finney
Reviewed by Thor Heyerdahl
Skwatchers of Ancient Mexico by Anthony Aveni
Reviewed by Michael D. Coe
European Prehistory by Sarunas Milisauskas
Reviewed by Aubrey Burl

Volume III, Number 4, October-November-December 1980

Fomalhaut and Cairn D at the Big Horn and Moose Mountain Medicine Wheels
Jack H. Robinson
Vision Quests at the Big Horn Medicine Wheel and its Date of Construction
Allan G. Fries
Orientation and Geometry of Ale's Stones
Curt Roslund
On the Orientation of Graves in Prehistoric Cemeteries
Katalin Barlai
The Chaco Canyon Supernova Pictograph-A Reorientation
John E. Gaustad

Book Reviews

Riddles of the Stone Age: Rock Carvings of Ancient Europe by Jean McMann
Reviewed by Elizabeth Twohig
Beyond the Milky Way: Hallucinatory Imagery of the Tukano Indians by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Reviewed by Peter T. Furst

Volume III, Number 3, July-August-September 1980

1980 AFS Annual Meeting: Session on Ethnoastronomy
M. Jane Young
Archaeoastronomy Seminar at the Smithsonian
Katherine H. Harper
Brief Summary of Research Activities in Peru
A. Aveni and R.T. Zuidema
Whose Calendar is Older? An article from the Soviet newspaper Nedelya, translated by Thomas E. Morgan
Carnac Revisited
Evan Hadingham
The Priscilla Catacomb Painting: A Hidden Star Map Revealed
Carolyn Murphy Beehler
On Burmese Calendrics and Astronomy
Joe D. Stewart
The Diffusion of Astronomical Knowledge in Greater Mesoamerica
William J. Folan and Antonio Ruiz Perez

Book Reviews

The Star of Bethlehem: An Astronomer's Confirmation by David Hughes
Reviewed by Virginia Trimble
America B.C. by Barry Fell
Saga America by Barry Fell
The Search for Lost America by Salvatore Michael Trento
Reviewed by A.F. Aveni
On Stonhenge by Fred Hoyle
Reviewed by John Edwin Wood
Positional Astronomy and Astro-Navigation Made Easy by H.R. Mills
Practical Astronomy with your Calculator by Peter Duffet-Smith
Mathematical Astronomy with a Pocket Calculator by Aubrey Jones
Reviewed by D.S.P. Dearborn

Volume III, Number 2, April-June 1980

Conference Reviews: Megalithic Astronomy and Society, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1980
Gordon Moir
"Indigenous American Architecture: The Symbolism of Circular Structures", SAH Session Reviewed
Cecelia F. Klein

Forum

Pathways to the Gods
Tony Morrison
Krupp on Hawkins on Thom
E.C. Krupp
Ancient Solar Observatory in Asuka, Japan
Kunitomo Sakurai
The Burmese Era and Ancient Astronomy in Southwest Asia
Thomas E. Morgan
The Astronomical Data in Fernando Montesinos' Peruvian Chronicle: The Comets of Qhapaq Yupanki
Mariusz S. Ziolkowski and Robert M. Sadowski
The Big Horn Medicine Wheel as a Site for the Vision Quest
Victor H. Mansfield
A 56-Year Eclipse Prediction System
H. Clyde Hostetter
Canon of Lunar Eclipses -2002 to +2526 by Jean Meeus and Hermann Mucke, and
Bright Comets-86 to +1950 by Hermann Mucke
Reviewed by Owen Gingerich
Burnham's Celestial Handbook by Robert Burnham, Jr.
Reviewed by Von Del Chamberlain
La Piramide De Kukulcan by Luis E. Arochi
Reviewed by Tomas E. Gergely

Volume III, Number 1, Winter 1980

Forum

The Need for Objectivity
Gerald S. Hawkins
Cahokia Woodhenge Update
Warren L. Wittry
Geometry of the Site Near Kielce, Poland
Lyle B. Borst
California Sun-Watching Site
Arlene Benson
Mescalero Apaches and Ethnoastronomy
Claire R. Farrer
Pecked-Cross-Like Petroglyphs in New Mexico
Michael Zeilik
Amahuaca Observational Astronomy
Joseph H. Woodside
Progress Report on the Calendar I Area in Central Vermont
Byron E. Dix, James W. Mavor, Jr. and June W. Potts
Basque Stone Circles and Geometry
Roslyn M. Frank

Book Reviews

Megaliths, Myths and Men and Megaliths and Master Minds by Peter Lancaster Brown
Reviewed by Evan Hadingham
Facets of Taoism: Essays in Chinese Religion by Holmes Welch and Anna Seidel, eds.
Reviewed by Edward H. Schafer
Sunlight Convergence, Solar Burn by Charles Ross
Reviewed by Anna Sofaer

Volume II, Number 4, Fall 1979

A Planetary Visit to Hades
H. Clyde Hostetter
The Astronomical Orientation of Stela I at Copan
Annegrete Vogrin
Orientation of Ball-Courts in Mesoamerica
Eric Taladoire
Some Notes on the Cahokia Sun Circle
Brian Eric McCandless
Possible Astronomical Orientations at an Ancient East-European "Santuary"
Robert M. Sadowski
Research Note: Quechua Star Names
William F. Sullivan

Book Reviews

Prehistoric Avebury by Aubrey Burl
Gerald S. Hawkins
Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany by A. Thom and A.S. Thom
Reviewed by Gerald S. Hawkins
Astronomy of the Ancients by Kenneth Brecher and Michael Feirtag
Reviewed by Stephen C. McClusky
Pathways to the Gods: The Mystery of the Andes Lines by Tony Morrison
Reviewed by Gary Urton
Geheimnis Der Wuste
Mystery on the Desert
Secreto de la Pampa by Maria Reiche
Reviewed by William H. Isbell
Peruanische Erdzeichen
Peruvian Ground Drawings by Hermann Kern and Maria Reiche
Reviewed by William H. Isbell
Final Scientific Report for the National Geographic Society Expedition: Ancient Lines by Gerald S. Hawkins
Reviewed by William H. Isbell

Volume II, Number 3, Summer 1979

Archaeoastronomy in the Americas: The Santa Fe Conference, 10-13 June 1979

Conference Review
Ray A. Williamson
Summary of the Sunday Seminar on the Role of Archaeoastronomy
Jane Young

Papers Presented at the Santa Fe Conference

The Chiapas Maya Weavers' Vision of the Cosmos
Walter F. Morris, Jr.
Field Report: Hovenweep National Monument
Ray A. Williamson
Research at Casa Grande
Renee G. Opperman

Book Reviews

Stonehenge, The Indo-European Heritage by Leon E. Stover and Bruce Kraig
Reviewed by Gerald S. Hawkins
Stone Circles of the British Isles by Aubrey Burl
Reviewed by Sharon L. Gibbs
The Phaistos Disc by Leon Pomerance
Reviewed by David H. Kelley
Pacing the Void. T'ang Approaches to the Stars by Edward H. Schafer
Reviewed by Nathan Sivin
Code of the Quipu Databook by Marcia Ascher and Robert Ascher
Reviewed by John B. Carlson
Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss
Reviewed by Robert E. Stencel

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