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Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon : The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292792630
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the MoonLOC classification:
  • F1219
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Questions, Hypotheses, and Assorted Detours -- 2. Humans and Environment in the Americas -- 3. Strange Attraction: The Mystery of Magnetism -- 4. New Windows on the World: Working the Land and Sailing the Sea -- 5. The Olmec Dawning -- 6. The Long Count: Astronomical Precision -- 7. Calendar Reform and Eclipses: The Place of Edzná -- 8. The Golden Age -- 9. The Twilight of the Gods -- 10. Dawn in the Desert: The Rise of the Toltecs -- 11. People of the Pleiades: The Aztec Interlude -- 12. The Long Journey: A Retrospective -- References -- Index.
Summary: A new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems.
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Questions, Hypotheses, and Assorted Detours -- 2. Humans and Environment in the Americas -- 3. Strange Attraction: The Mystery of Magnetism -- 4. New Windows on the World: Working the Land and Sailing the Sea -- 5. The Olmec Dawning -- 6. The Long Count: Astronomical Precision -- 7. Calendar Reform and Eclipses: The Place of Edzná -- 8. The Golden Age -- 9. The Twilight of the Gods -- 10. Dawn in the Desert: The Rise of the Toltecs -- 11. People of the Pleiades: The Aztec Interlude -- 12. The Long Journey: A Retrospective -- References -- Index.

A new view of the origin and diffusion of Mesoamerican calendrical systems.

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