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Preface and Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introduction: The Unwritten Record | p. 1 |
Archaeoastronomy: Establishing a Method and Applying a Paradigm | p. 13 |
Astronomical Alignment of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel | p. 19 |
Geometry and Astronomy in Prehistoric Ohio | p. 39 |
Archaeoastronomy at Machu Picchu | p. 61 |
Acquiring Cultural Context | p. 71 |
The Inca Calendar | p. 77 |
Horizon Astronomy in Incaic Cuzco | p. 109 |
Here Comes the Sun: The Cuzco-Machu Picchu Connection | p. 125 |
On Seeing the Light: A Reply to Here Comes the Sun by Dearborn and Schreiber | p. 158 |
Blinded by the Light: A Response to On Seeing the Light by Anthony Aveni | p. 162 |
Here Comes the Sun: the Cuzco-Machu Picchu Connection: A Reply to Dearborn and Schreiber | p. 168 |
Stand and Deliver: A Comment on Zuidema's Reply to Dearborn and Schreiber | p. 171 |
On Shadows of Doubt: A Reply to Dearborn's Review of Inkawasi: The New Cuzco | p. 173 |
Lengthening Shadows: A Response to Hyslop's Comments | p. 177 |
Chankillo: A 2,300-Year-Old Solar Observatory in Coastal Peru | p. 181 |
Keeping the Sacred and Planting Calendar: Archaeoastronomy in the Pueblo Southwest | p. 199 |
Native Astronomy in Mesoamerica | p. 231 |
The Role of Astronomical Orientation in the Delineation of World View: A Center and Periphery Model | p. 253 |
Astronomical Alignments at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, Mexico | p. 273 |
Astronomical Observations from the Temple of the Sun | p. 305 |
Astronomy, Ritual, and the Interpretation of Maya "E-Group" Architectural Assemblages | p. 347 |
A Reflection of the Ancient Mesoamerican Ethos | p. 383 |
The Role of Ethnoastronomy | p. 395 |
Current Astronomical Practices among the Maya | p. 399 |
Quichean Time Philosophy | p. 413 |
Astronomical Models of Social Behavior among Some Indians of Colombia | p. 425 |
The Hooghan and the Stars | p. 439 |
Animals and Astronomy in the Quechua Universe | p. 457 |
Culture Confronts Nature in the Dialectical World of the Tropics | p. 485 |
Ethnoastronomy and the Problem of Interpretation: A Zuni Example | p. 495 |
The Classic Maya: A Testing Ground for Precise Astronomy in the Written Record | p. 503 |
Ancient Maya Ethnoastronomy: An Overview of Hieroglyphic Sources | p. 509 |
Astronomical Knowledge and Its Uses at Bonampak, Mexico | p. 565 |
A Palenque King and the Planet Jupiter | p. 587 |
Archaeoastronomical Implications of an Agricultural Almanac in the Dresden Codex | p. 607 |
Cultural Astronomy's Greatest Mysteries | p. 617 |
Between the Lines: Reading the Nazca Markings as Rituals Writ Large | p. 621 |
Possible Rock Art Records of the Crab Nebula Supernova in the Western United States | p. 635 |
A Thousand Years of the Pueblo Sun-Moon-Star Calendar | p. 647 |
Astronomical Markings at Three Sites on Fajada Butte | p. 669 |
Romancing the Stone, or Moonshine on the Sun Dagger | p. 693 |
Lunar Standstills at Chimney Rock | p. 711 |
The Present and Future of Cultural Astronomy | p. 721 |
The Study of Cultural Astronomy | p. 725 |
Cosmograms and Maya City Planning: Selected Articles | p. 751 |
Archaeology and Astronomy: A View from the Southwest | p. 793 |
I Wasn't Going to Say Anything, but Since You Asked: Archaeoastronomy and Archaeology | p. 803 |
Nobody Asked, but I Couldn't Resist: A Response to Keith Kintigh on Archaeoastronomy and Archaeology | p. 806 |
Index | p. 809 |
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