Archaeoastronomy in the Americas
Author | : Ray A. Williamson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780879190941 |
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Author | : Ray A. Williamson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780879190941 |
Author | : American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Publisher | : Austin : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Written by leading specialists, the papers in this volume explore the newly developed interdisciplinary field of archaeoastronomy. Their value is enhanced by extensive citation of data for that part of America north of Panama. They provide an excellent introduction to the growing field of archaeoastronomy. Three broad, interlocking topics are discussed: early American rock art in the southwestern United States, astronomical orientations of buildings, and native American calendars.
Author | : Anthony F. Aveni |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1982-08-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521247314 |
This volume summarises the proceedings of a conference which took place at the University of Oxford in September 1981.
Author | : Carl Lehrburger |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2015-01-02 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 159143775X |
The real history of the New World and the visitors, from both East and West, who traveled to the Americas long before 1492 • Provides more than 300 photographs and drawings, including Celtic runes in New England, Gaelic inscriptions in Colorado, and Asian symbols in the West • Reinterprets many archaeological finds, such as the Ohio Serpent Mound • Reveals Celtic, Hebrew, Roman, early Christian, Templar, Egyptian, Chinese, and Japanese influences in North American artifacts and ruins As the myth of Columbus “discovering” America falls from the pedestal of established history, we are given the opportunity to discover the real story of the New World and the visitors, from both East and West, who traveled there long before 1492. Sharing his more than 25 years of research and travel to sites throughout North America, Carl Lehrburger employs epigraphy, archaeology, and archaeoastronomy to reveal extensive evidence for pre-Columbian explorers in ancient America. He provides more than 300 photographs and drawings of sites, relics, and rock art, including Celtic and Norse runes in New England, Phoenician and Hebrew inscriptions in the Midwest, and ancient Shiva linga and Egyptian hieroglyphs in the West. He uncovers the real story of Columbus and his motives for coming to the Americas. He reinterprets many well-known archaeological and astronomical finds, such as the Ohio Serpent Mound, America’s Stonehenge in New Hampshire, and the Crespi Collection in Ecuador. He reveals Celtic, Hebrew, Roman, early Christian, Templar, Egyptian, Chinese, and Japanese influences in famous stones and ruins, reconstructing the record of what really happened on the American continents prior to Columbus. He also looks at Hindu influences in Mesoamerica and sacred sexuality encoded in archaeological sites. Expanding upon the work of well-known diffusionists such as Barry Fell and Gunnar Thompson, the author documents the travels and settlements of trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific explorers, miners, and settlers who made it to the Americas and left their marks for us to discover. Interpreting their sacred symbols, he shows how their teachings, prayers, and cosmologies reveal the cosmic order and sacred landscape of the Americas.
Author | : Anthony F. Aveni |
Publisher | : Austin : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anthony Francis Aveni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : D. C. Heggie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1982-08-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521247349 |
The papers in this book, summarising the proceedings of a conference at the University of Oxford in September 1981, are concerned with shedding light on a controversial aspect of European prehistory: was astronomy practised in the late Neolithic and bronze ages? This volume will be of interest to prehistorians, professionals with pure and applied sciences background and statisticians.
Author | : Anthony F. Aveni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Giulio Magli |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2009-04-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0387765662 |
The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal ‘world tour’ of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in search of traces of astronomical knowledge and lore of the sky. In the second part, Giulio Magli uses the elements presented in the tour to show that the fundamental idea which led to the construction of the astronomically-related giant monuments was the foundation of power, a foundation which was exploited by ‘replicating’ the sky. A possible interpretive model then emerges that is founded on the relationship the ancients had with “nature”, in the sense of everything that surrounded them, the cosmos. The numerous monumental astronomically aligned structures of the past then become interpretable as acts of will, expressions of power on the part of those who held it; the will to replicate the heavenly plane here on earth and to build sacred landscapes. Finally, having formulated his hypothesis, Professor Magli returns to visit one specific place in detail, searching for proof. This in-depth examination studies the most compelling, the most intensively studied, the most famous and, until recently, the most misunderstood sacred landscape on the planet - Giza, in Egypt. The archaeoastronomical analysis of the orientation of the Giza pyramids leads to the hypothesis that the pyramids of Cheops and Chephren belong to the same construction project.