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16 pages of results. 1. The Center for Archaeoastronomy [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1998:2 (Dec 1998) Home | Issue Contents The Center for Archaeoastronomy http://www.wam.umd.edu/~tlaloc/archastro/ For two decades, the Center for Archaeoastronomy has published the journal Archaeoastronomy. It has served as an outlet for refereed articles studying the practice, use, and meaning of astronomy in non-western cultural contexts. A broad range of topics, including indigenous cosmologies, measurement systems, calendrics, navigation, and even settlement planning, have found expression under the headings of archaeoastronomy, ethnoastronomy, and history of astronomy. During that period, the journal has evolved as this interdisciplinary field matured. ...
2. "In Search of Ancient Astronomies": A Review [Journals] [Kronos]
... From: Kronos Vol. VI No. 2 (Winter 1981) Home | Issue Contents "In Search of Ancient Astronomies": A Review Thomas Mccreery Thomas McCreery lectures in physics at Cardonald College Glasgow. The past two decades have witnessed an ever increasing interest in archaeoastronomy, resulting in the inevitable boom in subject literature. As a rule, these publications are distinguished more for their excessive partiality and cavalier approach to data appraisal in favour of the ideas being advanced than for their critical evaluation of these hypotheses. What promised to be an exception to this trend, In Search of Ancient Astronomies, was warmly recommended by the Bulletin of the Center for Archaeoastronomy [henceforth Archaeoastronomy ( ...
3. The Center for Archaeoastronomy [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1996:1 Home | Issue Contents The Center for Archaeoastronomy http://exp3.wam.umd.edu/%7Etlaloc/archastro/The annual journal of the Center, Archaeoastronomy, was started in 1977 and is the only publication devoted exclusively to world archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy. Subscriptions include a quarterly newsletter called Archaeoastronomy & Ethnoastronomy News. One Year: Libraries and Institutions: $60.00, Individuals: $36.00; Subscriptions outside the U.S .A . must add an additional $30. The Center for Archaeoastronomy, P.O . Box "X ", College Park, MD 20741-3022. USA. ...
4. Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1997:2 (Feb 1998) Home | Issue Contents Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:56:32 -0500 (EST) La Laguna, November 1997 It is a pleasure to inform you that, hopefully, in two years from now we will be celebrating the Oxford VI International Conference on Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture and the S.E .A .C . 1999 Annual Meeting in the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna, (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain), forward on the topic Astronomy and Cultural Diversity. The Conference will be jointly organized by: * Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias * ...
5. Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy Conference [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1998:2 (Dec 1998) Home | Issue Contents Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy Conference http://www.mcc.rcanaria.es/oxford6/oxford6.htm Oxford VI International Conference on Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture and the S.E .A .C . 1999 Annual Meeting in the city of La Laguna, (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain), Monday, June 21st 1999, to late afternoon on Tuesday June 29th 1999. The sessions will take up to some 35 hours divided as follows (subject to change): 5 invited conferences (one per day) of 45 min plus 5 min for questions, i ...
6. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY: VELIKOVSKY'S CONTRIBUTION [Journals] [Aeon]
... by whom or by what means is not explained) which accounts for the presence of identical mythical motives around the globe. (19) Not surprisingly, this hypothesis has failed to find favor among historians of science, nor, for that matter, has Hamlet's Mill had any discernible impact upon subsequent studies of ancient myth. (20) Archaeoastronomy In recent years interest in traditions surrounding the planets has experienced a resurgence due to the emergence of archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy as serious fields of research. (21) Scholars in these respective fields comb the architectural structures, sacred writings, and iconography of ancient cultures in both the New World and Old for some reference to celestial goings-on. Here ...
7. SIS Internet Digest 1996 Number 1 [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... 1 Editor/Compiler: Ian Tresman. 9 Ashdown Drive, Borehamwood, Herts. WD6 4LZ. UK Tel: + 44 181 953 7722. Fax: + 44 181 905 1879. Email: iantresman@easynet.co.uk © April 1996 The Society for Interdisciplinary Studies 1996 Number 1 From the Web site for The Center for Archaeoastronomy (page 4) Contents About the SIS; How to Join Introduction , What's on the Internet Catastrophism Archive Project, A Plea World Wide Web focus Web Words and phrases How to read a Web address Egyptology Home Page Perseus Project Home Page Akkadian language Cosmos and Chronos Home Page Govardhan Hill Publishing The Journal of Scientific Exploration Noncanonical Homepage Mythtext ...
8. Psychology and Ancient Astronomical Discovery [Journals] [Kronos]
... certain elemental schemata perhaps many thousands of years older. Though these findings- indicating advanced prehistoric culture and the known astronomic practices of the entire range of contemporary human cultures- should justify assumptions of prehistoric developments in astronomy, there is resistance to the idea among professionals. Noting some of the reactions to Marshack's work, Aveni, a specialist in archaeoastronomy, comments that "these matters are very controversial and people generally are quite reluctant to believe ancient man's knowledge of astronomy."(92) Such reluctance is partly an expression of a more general bias which is derived from the prevailing uniformitarian interpretation of human evolution. Applied to human intellectual achievements, slow and cumulative progress toward modern knowledge ...
9. Chapter 3 Astronomical Sothic Dating [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... be that of Sesostris III such evidence in combination with the Sothic date may enable us to equate the sixteenth day of the eighth month in his seventh year with a particular day in a particular Julian year B.C ." This approach to testing the information in the El-Lahun Papyrus was taken up by some of the world's leading authorities in archaeoastronomy and calendrics, namely Ludwig Borchardt, Richard Parker, Rolf Krauss, and Ulrich Luft. Although each attempted to make the lunar festival dates fit the reign of other 12th Dynasty pharaohs for which this information was given, in terms of year, month, and day of their reigns, each could not make an adequate fit in the ...
10. Horus Vol. 3 No. 1 Winter 1987 Contents [Journals] [Horus]
... From: Vol. 3 No. 1 Winter 1987 Texts Home | Horus Home Horus Horus Vol. 3 No. 1 Winter 1987 ISSN 8756-3029 A publication of The Institute for the Study of Collective Behavior and Memory Editor: David Griffard Horus is a tri-annual magazine (published in February, June and October) featuring articles on archaeoastronomy, myths, rituals, symbols, and other subjects related to ancient conceptions of natural and human history. Contents The Calendar of Coligny .. Alban Wall .. .more Myths Monuments and Mneumonics: A Pictographic Tour of Egyptian Antiquities .. David Griffard Ring Counters and Calendrical Cycles .. William J. Douglas An Ear for Numbers .. ...
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