Anthony Aveni
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- PhD Astronomy University of Arizona
- Masters Astronomy University of Arizona
- Bachelors Physics Haverford College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anthony Francis Aveni is an American academic anthropologist, astronomer, and author, noted in particular for his extensive publications and contributions to the field of archaeoastronomy. With an academic career spanning over four decades, Aveni is recognized for his influence on the development of archaeoastronomy as a discipline in the latter 20th century. He has specialized in the study of ancient astronomical practices in the Americas, and is one of the founders of research into the historical astronomy of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. He held an endowed chair as the Russell Colgate Distinguished University Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology and Native American Studies at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York, where he is now an emeritus professor.
Anthony Aveni's Published Works
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Published Works
- Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (1982) (114)
- Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures (1989) (95)
- Maya Calendar Reform? Evidence from Orientations of Specialized Architectural Assemblages (2003) (85)
- Skywatchers : A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico (2001) (77)
- Maya City Planning and the Calendar (1986) (68)
- Stonehenge (2011) (60)
- Archaeoastronomy in the Ancient Americas (2003) (51)
- The Ancient Americas : Art from sacred landscapes (1992) (51)
- The Lines of Nazca (1990) (50)
- Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics (1980) (49)
- Alta Vista (Chalchihuites), Astronomical Implications of a Mesoamerican Ceremonial Outpost at the Tropic of Cancer (1982) (48)
- Archaeoastronomy in the Maya Region: A Review of the Past Decade (1981) (47)
- The Caracol Tower at Chichen Itza: An Ancient Astronomical Observatory? (1975) (44)
- Catalog of emission lines in astrophysical objects (1969) (44)
- Agreeing to Disagree: The Measurement of Duration in a Southwestern Ethiopian Community [and Comments and Reply] (1978) (40)
- Myth, Environment, and the Orientation of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan (1988) (36)
- Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures (1997) (36)
- On the Orientation of Precolumbian Buildings in Central Mexico (1976) (35)
- Monumental Inscriptions and the Observational Basis of Maya Planetary Astronomy (1994) (35)
- Ancient Maya Astronomical Tables from Xultun, Guatemala (2012) (35)
- The Pecked Cross Symbol in Ancient Mesoamerica (1978) (34)
- Exploring ancient skies : a survey of ancient and cultural astronomy (2011) (30)
- Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America (1973) (29)
- The Geoglyphs of Palpa, Peru: Documentation, Analysis, and Interpretation (2006) (29)
- Astronomical Tables Intended for Use in Astro-Archaeological Studies (1972) (29)
- Orientation and Etruscan ritual (1994) (29)
- Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy So Far [and Comments and Reply] (1973) (26)
- Native American astronomy (1977) (25)
- The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding an Ancient Maya Manuscript (2004) (23)
- Chichén Itzá's Legacy in the Astronomically Oriented Architecture of Mayapán (2004) (21)
- The Sky in Mayan Literature (1992) (20)
- The Planet Venus and Temple 22 at Copán (1984) (19)
- Empires Of Time (1991) (19)
- Observational studies relating to star formation. II. (1967) (19)
- The Nazca Lines : Patterns in the Desert (1986) (19)
- Concepts of Positional Astronomy Employed in Ancient Mesoamerican Architecture (1977) (18)
- Scientific Habits of Mind (1994) (18)
- Possible astronomical orientations in ancient Mesoamerica. (1975) (17)
- Moctezuma's Mexico: Visions of the Aztec World (1992) (16)
- Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore (1994) (15)
- Sulphate removal and dealkalization on weak resins of the feed water for evaporation desalting plants (1975) (15)
- Temple Orientations in Magna Graecia and Sicily (2000) (15)
- Classic Maya Prediction of Solar Eclipses [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (14)
- The geometry and astronomy of Rujm el-Hiri, a megalithic site in the southern Levant (1998) (14)
- The Moon and the Venus table: an example of commensuration in the Maya calendar. (1992) (12)
- Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path. David Freidel, Linda Schele, and Joy Parker (1996) (12)
- Astronomy in the Mexican Codex Borgia (1999) (12)
- Books-Received - Conversing with the Planets - how Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos (1992) (11)
- Ancient Maya documents concerning the movements of Mars. (2001) (11)
- Book Review: The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012 (2009) (10)
- Introduction: whither archaeoastronomy? (1989) (9)
- Calendars in Mesoamerica and Peru : native American computations of time : proceedings, International Congress of Americanists, Manchester 1982 (1983) (9)
- The Maya Number of Time: Intervalic Time Reckoning in the Maya Codices, Part 1 (1995) (9)
- Stone Age Science in Britain? [and Comments and Reply] (1981) (9)
- BETWEEN THE LINES: Reading the Nazca Markings as Rituals Writ Large (1991) (8)
- Deciphering the Handwriting on the Wall: Some Astronomical Interpretations of the Recent Discoveries at Xultun, Guatemala (2014) (8)
- People and the Sky: Our Ancestors and the Cosmos (2008) (8)
- The Book of the Year: A Brief History of Our Seasonal Holidays (2002) (8)
- Mound J, Monte Albán: Possible Astronomical Orientation (1972) (8)
- Precision in the Layout of Maya Architecture * (1982) (7)
- Astronomical Implications of Maya Hieroglyphic Notations at Xultun (2013) (7)
- Observations on the Pecked Designs and other Figures Carved on the South Platform of the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan (2005) (7)
- ASTRONOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE AZTEC EXPRESSION OF HISTORY (1999) (7)
- Tropical archeoastronomy. (1981) (7)
- Seeking the Sidereal: Observable Planetary Stations and the Ancient Maya Record (2003) (7)
- The Dawn of Astrology: A Cultural History of Western Astrology (2010) (6)
- World archaeoastronomy: selected papers from the 2nd Oxford International Conference on Archaeoastronomy, held at Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 13-17 January 1986 (1988) (6)
- Solving the mystery of the Nasca lines (2000) (5)
- Old and New World Naked-Eye Astronomy (1979) (5)
- Archaeoastronomy: Past, Present, and Future (1986) (4)
- The Archaeology of Measurement: The measure of time in Mesoamerica: From Teotihuacan to the Maya (2010) (4)
- Apocalyptic Anxiety: Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World (2016) (4)
- Astronomical Orientations of Five Megalithic Tombs at Madau, near Fonni in Sardinia (1987) (4)
- A marshaling of arguments. (1978) (4)
- Middle Devonian Lunar Month (1966) (4)
- The View from the Tropics (2019) (4)
- Archaeoastronomical fieldwork in the Canary Islands (1992) (4)
- Archaeoastronomy in the Maya Region - 1970-1980 (1982) (4)
- THE EFFECT OF LINE EMISSION UPON THE B-V COLORS OF T TAURI OBJECTS. (1966) (3)
- Pecked Cross Petroglyphs at Xihuingo (1989) (3)
- Circling the Square: How the Conquest Altered the Shape of Time in Mesoamerica (2012) (3)
- The Madrid Codex (2009) (3)
- Archaeoastronomy and the puuc sites (1991) (3)
- E Groups:: Astronomy, Alignments, and Maya Cosmology (2017) (3)
- A selected bibliography on native American astronomy. (1978) (3)
- The Cross Petroglyph: An Ancient Mesoamerican Astronomical and Calendrical Symbol (1980) (3)
- Astronomical orientations of "Tombe dei Giganti" in Barbagia (Sardinia). (1991) (2)
- Numerical Notation: A Comparative History. Stephen Chrisomalis (2010) (2)
- The Maya Number of Time: Intervalic Time Reckoning in the Maya Codices, Part II (1996) (2)
- Essay Review: Frombork 1992: Where Worlds and Disciplines Collide: Time and Astronomy at the Meeting of Two Worlds (1995) (2)
- Introduction: making time. (1992) (2)
- Introductory Remarks (1982) (2)
- Venus and the Maya. (1979) (2)
- Archaeoastronomy in the new world : American primitive astronomy : proceedings of an international conference held at Oxford University, September, 1981 (1982) (1)
- Archaeoastronomical Research in Veneto-Friuli, Italy (1986) (1)
- Cycles of the Sun, Mysteries of the Moon: The Calendar in Mesoamerican Civilization. Vincent H. Malmström (1998) (1)
- SOLAR OBSERVATORY OR ALLEGORY? CALAKMUL'S GROUP E-TYPE COMPLEX FORM AND FUNCTION (2017) (1)
- Heart of Creation (2017) (1)
- Book Review: Mayans Past and Present: Time and the Highland Maya (1994) (1)
- Creation Stories (2021) (1)
- The Land of the Solstices: Myth, Geography, and Astronomy in Ancient Greece (2022) (1)
- Solar Eclipses and the Temple of the Plumed Serpents, Xochicalco, Mexico (1997) (1)
- Star Stories: Constellations and People (2019) (1)
- Possible Astronomical Orientations of Dolmenic Tombs in North Sardinia (1996) (1)
- An Appraisal of Baudez' Appraisal of Archaeoastronomy at Copan (and Elsewhere) (1993) (1)
- Book-Review - Empires of Time - Calendars Clocks and Cultures (1989) (1)
- Uncommon Sense: Understanding Nature's Truths Across Time and Culture (2006) (1)
- Night in Day: How Mesoamerican Cultures Respond to Unanticipated (and Anticipated) Eclipse Phenomena (2016) (0)
- Methodologies and New Approaches to Interpreting the Madrid Codex (2011) (0)
- Research in Stellar Spectroscopy (1964) (0)
- The First Americans (2005) (0)
- Book Review: Astronomy and Civilization: The Power of Stars: How Celestial Observations Have Shaped Civilization (2011) (0)
- Note on the Construction of a Cross-Staff from a Meter Stick (1965) (0)
- Emmanuel Anati, Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-Literate Peoples: Proceedings of the XVII UISPP World CongressF. Pimenta et al., Stars and Stones: Voyages in Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy (2017) (0)
- New Perspectives on the Madrid Codex (2003) (0)
- Urton provides a strong claim for considering this patterned mantle within a larger cultural tradition sensitive to the polyvalence of ritual knowledge. His co-editor Clive Ruggles takes on the architecture (2008) (0)
- Book Review: The Incas and the Sky: Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes: The Cultural Origins of Inca Sky Watching (1997) (0)
- Corrigendum: "Monumental inscriptions and the observational basis of Maya planetary astronomy" [Archaeoastronomy, No. 19, p. S21 - S54 (1994)]. (1995) (0)
- Maya Calendar Origins: Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time by Prudence M. Rice (2008) (0)
- Justine M. Shaw, White Roads of the Yucatán: Changing Social Landscapes of the Yucatec Maya (Tucson AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2008), pp. xi+226, $45.00, hb. (2010) (0)
- Book Review:The Myth of Replacement: Stars, Gods, and Order in the Universe Thomas D. Worthen (1993) (0)
- Book Review: Stonehenge complete: everything important, interesting or odd that has been written or painted, discovered or imagined about the most extraordinary ancient building in the world. By Christopher Chippendale. (Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, N.Y., 1983). 296 pp., $29.50 (1984) (0)
- World archaeoastronomy. Selected papers. (1989) (0)
- Appendix I: An Analysis Of The Cantalloc Spiral (1990) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (1990) (0)
- Astronomers as Oracular Technicians in the Pre-Columbian Andes (2018) (0)
- Mysteries of the Hopewell: Astronomers, Geometers, and Magicians of the Eastern Woodlands (Book) (2003) (0)
- WHY MAYA 2012 FASCINATES US (2012) (0)
- Back to the drawing board (1987) (0)
- Evolution of the Maya solar orientation calendar. (1991) (0)
- Native American astronomy. Edited versions of papers presented at a symposium held at Colgate University, 23_-_26 September 1975. (1977) (0)
- The Caracol Tower at Chichen I An Ancient Astronomical Observat (2013) (0)
- Publications Received (2001) (0)
- Essay Review: Time and Astronomy at the Meeting of Two Worlds, ed. by S. Iwaniszewski et al. (1995) (0)
- Book Review:Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History E. G. Richards (2000) (0)
- The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: The Cusco Ceque System. Brian S Bauer. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1998. xiv + 249 pp., figures, tables, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index. $50.00 (cloth). (1999) (0)
- Archaeoastronomy in the Southwestern United States: attitudes, concepts, strategies, and altering the course of action. (1983) (0)
- GENERAL/THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Space, Time and Man: A Prehistorian's View. Grahame Clark (1993) (0)
- Book-Review - World Archeoastronomy (1989) (0)
- Evan Hadingham. Lines to the mountain Gods: Nazca and the mysteries of Peru. London: Harrap & New York: Random House, 1987. xii + 306 pages, 294 illustrations. £12.95 & $22.50 hardback. (1987) (0)
- Book-Review - Maya City Planning and the Calendar (1987) (0)
- The Measure, Meaning, and Transformation of Aztec Time and Calendars (2017) (0)
- Pecked Cross Symbols in Mesoamerica (1978) (0)
- Archaeoastronomy and the Andean world. (1983) (0)
- Book Reviews: Time and the Highland Maya by Barbara Tedlock (1983) (0)
- Time, Number, and History in the Maya World (2001) (0)
- In the Shadow of the Moon (2021) (0)
- Epilogue: Class (Not) Dismissed (2014) (0)
- Essay Review: Time and Calendars in the Inca Empire, (1992) (0)
- Essay Review: Time among the INCA: Time and Calendars in the Inca Empire (1992) (0)
- Night in Day: Contrasting Ancient and Contemporary Maya and Hindu Responses to Total Solar Eclipses (2017) (0)
- Origins of Mesoamerican astronomy and calendar: Evidence from the Olmec and Maya regions (2023) (0)
- What I Teach (2014) (0)
- Book Review: North American Constellation Myths, Reachable Stars: Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America (2009) (0)
- Arqueoastronomia : una nueva disciplina (1984) (0)
- Between a rock and a hard place (1996) (0)
- Maya Daykeeping: Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala. John M. Weeks, Frauke Sachse, and Christian M. Prager. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2009. 221 pp. (2011) (0)
- Maya Books and Buildings at Baktun’s End (2015) (0)
- Star Stories (2019) (0)
- Why I Teach. (1982) (0)
- The Myth of Stonehenge (1986) (0)
- When Stars Came Down to Earth: Cosmology of the Skidl Pawnee Indians of North America. VON DEL CHAMBERLAIN (1983) (0)
- Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics. Papers from a conference, March 1981. (1982) (0)
- Anthony Aveni: "Patterns on the Pampa: Secrets of the Nazca Lines" (2009) (0)
- New directions in American archaeoastronomy : proceedings, 46 International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1988 (1988) (0)
- Sticks, Stones, and Shadows: Building the Egyptian Pyramids. Martin Isler (2002) (0)
- Book-Review - Archaeoastronomy in the New World (1982) (0)
- Native American Mathematics. Michael P. Closs, editor. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1986. 431 pp., references. $35.00 (cloth). (1988) (0)
- List of Participants (2000) (0)
- The star of Bethlehem : Was it a celestial event, a supernatural phenomenon, or a story made up by Matthew? (1998) (0)
- AN OVERVIEW OF “MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL ASTRONOMY AND THE CALENDAR” (2017) (0)
- Maya Planetary Astronomy (1981) (0)
- Book Review: Surveyors of the Ancient Mississippi Valley: Modules and alignments in prehistoric mound sites. / Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series, no. 28. 1987. (1989) (0)
- Book Review:Inca Cosmology and the Human Body Constance Classen (1993) (0)
- Isolated Low Mass Clusters in the Interstellar Medium. (1971) (0)
- Appendix II: A walk across the pampa (1990) (0)
- Alternative Functions of Distance Numbers in Maya Calendrical Texts: Codices vs. Monuments (2014) (0)
- Publications Received (2000) (0)
- Lightning in the Andes and Mesoamerica: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Contemporary Perspectives by John E. Staller and Brian Stross (review) (2013) (0)
- Fabio Silva and Nicholas Campion, Skyscapes: The Role and Importance of the Sky in Archaeology (2016) (0)
- The Sacred Calendar and Venus (1990) (0)
- Mesoamerican Calendars and Archaeoastronomy (2012) (0)
- Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes: The Cultural Origins of Inca Sky Watching. Brian S. Bauer , David S. P. Dearborn (1996) (0)
- Other stars than ours. (2001) (0)
- Book Review:From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites Brian Fagan (1999) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS: THE SEARCH FOR LOST AMERICA -- Salvatore Michael Trento (1980) (0)
- Book Review: Time and the Highland Maya (revised edn), by Barbara Tedlock (1994) (0)
- Book-Review - Ethnoastronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the American Tropics Conference 1981MAR (1982) (0)
- Book Review:Twin City Tales: A Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula and Chichen Itza Lindsay Jones (1999) (0)
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