Skywatching in the Ancient World

Clive Ruggles is Emeritus Professor of Archaeoastronomy at the University of Leicester, U.K. Gary Urton is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies at Harvard University

"With its stunning array of diverse approaches, from the Maya Dresden Codex to Hawaiian astronomy to the alignment of Medieval English churches . . . this volume presents a series of important articles written by eminent scholars in the field of cultural astronomy. In terms of edited volumes, it is the most important contribution to the field in recent memory."-Grant Aylesworth, University of New Brunswick

• Contents; Foreword; David Carrasco; Preface; Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton; A Partner?s Perspective; Lorraine Aveni; Acknowledgments; Editors? Note; Introduction; Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton; 1. The Correlation between the Colonial Northern Zapotec and Gregorian Calendars; John Justeson and David Tav rez; 2. Kirchoff?s Correlations and the Third Part of the Codex Borbonicus; Edward E. Calnek; 3. When Was the Dresden Codex Venus Table Efficacious?; Harvey M. Bricker and Victoria R. Bricker; 4. Moon Woman Meets the Stars: A New Reading of the Lunar Almanacs in the Dresden Codex; Dennis Tedlock and Barbara Tedlock; 5. Astronomical Cycles in the Imagery of Codex Borgia 29?46; Susan Milbrath; 6. The Measure of Man; Clemency Coggins; 7. A Multi-Year Tukapu Calendar; Gary Urton; 8. Solar and Lunar Observations in the Inca Calendar; R. Tom Zuidema; 9. Cosmology, Calendar, and Temple Orientations in Ancient Hawai?i; Clive Ruggles; 10. Calendrical Cycles, the Eighth Day of the World, and the Orientation of English Churches; Stephen C. McCluskey; 11. High Fashion; Edwin C. Krupp; Contributors; Index