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The Ancient sky. In Archives of the Universe: a treasury of astronomy’s historic works of discovery. Edited by Marcia Bartusiak. New York, Pantheon Books, c2004. p. 4-43.
Archaeoastronomy. In History of astronomy: an encyclopedia. Edited by John Lankford. New York, Garland Pub., 1997. p. 21-30. (Garland encyclopedias in the history of science, v. 1) (Garland reference library of social science, v. 771) McCluskey, Stephen C. The heritage of astronomical practice. In Astronomies and cultures in early medieval Europe. Cambridge, Eng., Cambridge University Press, 1997. p.11-28.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on archaeoastronomy and ancient astronomy can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs, include the following:
Astronomy across cultures: the history of non-Western astronomy. Editor Helaine Selin; advisory editor Sun Xiaochun. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. 665 p. (Science across cultures, v. 1) Aveni, Anthony F. Ancient astronomers. Montreal, St. Remy Press; Washington, Smithsonian Books, c1993. 176 p. Aveni, Anthony F. People and the sky: our ancestors and the cosmos. London, Thames & Hudson, c2008. 252 p. Krupp, E. C. Echoes of the ancient skies: the astronomy of lost civilizations. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2003. 386 p. Lancaster Brown, Peter. Megaliths, myths, and men: an introduction to astro-archaeology. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2000. 324 p. Thurston, Hugh. Early astronomy. New York, Springer, c1994. 268 p.
Aveni, Anthony F. Stairways to the stars: skywatching in three great ancient cultures. New York, J. Wiley, 1997. 230 p. Hetherington, Norriss S. Planetary motions: a historical perspective. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, c2006.
224 p. Krupp, Edwin C. Skywatchers, shamans & kings: astronomy and the archaeology of power. New York, Wiley, c1997. 364 p. Skywatching in the ancient world: new perspectives in cultural astronomy studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni. Edited by Clive Ruggles and Gary Urton. Boulder, University Press of Colorado, c2007. 392 p.
African cultural astronomy: current archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy research in Africa. Edited by Jarita Holbrook, R. Thebe Medupe, and Johnson O. Urama. New York, Springer, c2008. 260 p. Balachandra Rao, S. Ancient Indian astronomy: planetary positions and eclipses. Delhi, B. R. Pub. Corp., 2000. 288 p. Bauer, Brian S., and David S. P. Dearborn. Astronomy and empire in the ancient Andes: the cultural origins of Inca sky watching. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1995. 220 p. Broda, Johanna. Astronomical knowledge, calendrics, and sacred geography in ancient Mesoamerica. In Astronomies and cultures: papers derived from the third "Oxford" International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy, St. Andrews, UK, September 1990. Edited by Clive L. N. Ruggles and Nicholas J. Saunders. Niwot, University Press of Colorado, c1993. p. 253-295. Brown, David. Mesopotamian planetary astronomy-astrology. Groningen, Styx, 2000. 322 p. (Cuneiform monographs, 18) Chamberlain, Von Del. When stars came down to earth: cosmology of the Skidi Pawnee Indians of North America. Los Altos, CA, Ballena Press; College Park, Center for Archaeoastronomy, University of Maryland, c1982. 270 p. (Ballena Press anthropological papers, no. 26) Malville, J. McKim. A guide to prehistoric astronomy in the Southwest. Rev. and updated. Boulder, CO, Johnson Books, c2008. 176 p. Ruggles, C. L. N. Astronomy in prehistoric Britain and Ireland. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, c1999. 285 p. Under one sky: astronomy and mathematics in the ancient Near East. Edited by John M. Steele and Annette Imhausen. Münster, Ugarit-Verlag, 2002. 496 p. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, Bd. 297) Zhentao, Xu, David W. Pankenier, and Yaotiao Jiang. East Asian archaeoastronomy: historical records of astronomical observations of China, Japan and Korea. Amsterdam, Published on behalf of the Earth Space Institute by Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 2000. 304 p. (Earth Space Institute book series, v. 5)
Ancient astronomy and celestial divination. Edited by N. M. Swerdlow. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 1999. 378 p. Evans, James. The history and practice of ancient astronomy. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. 480 p. Fraser, Craig G. The cosmos: a historical perspective. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2006. 179 p. King, David A. In synchrony with the heavens: studies in astronomical timekeeping and instrumentation in medieval Islamic civilization. Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2004-2005. 2 v. (Islamic philosophy, theology, and science, v. 55)
Lewis, George Cornewall. An historical survey of the astronomy of the ancients. Mansfield Centre, CT, Martino Pub., c2004. 527 p. Powell, Robert. History of the zodiac. San Rafael, CA, Sophia Academic Press, c2007. 214 p. Steele, John M. Observations and predictions of eclipse times by early astronomers. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000. 321 p. (Archimedes, v. 4) Whitehouse, David. The moon: a biography. London, Headline, 2001. 312 p.
Kelley, David H., and and Eugene F. Milone. Exploring ancient skies: an encyclopedic survey of archaeoastronomy. New York, Springer, c2005. 612 p. History of astronomy: an encyclopedia. Edited by John Lankford. New York, Garland Pub., 1997. 594 p. (Garland encyclopedias in the history of science, v. 1) (Garland reference library of social science, v. 771) Ruggles, Clive L. N. Ancient astronomy: an encyclopedia of cosmologies and myth. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO, c2005. 518 p.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS may provide more up-to-date information than is available in other published sources. In particular the conferences listed below are significant as publications of professional organizations (see also the section Additional Sources of Information). Southern European Conference in Archaeometry (2nd,1991, Delphoi, Greece). Archaeometry in South-Eastern Europe: Second Conference in Delphi, 19th-21st April, 1991. Edited by I. Liritzis and G. Tsokas. Strasbourg, France, Council of Europe; Rixensart, Edited by PACT Belgium, 1995. 543 p. (PACT, 45) European Society for Astronomy in Culture. Meeting (12th, 2004, Kecskemét, Hungary). Archaeoastronomy in archaeology and ethnography: papers from the annual meeting of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy in Culture), held in Kecskemét in Hungary in 2004. Edited by Emília Pásztor. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007. 179 p. (BAR international series, v. 1647) Oxford International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy (5th, 1996, Santa Fe, N.M.). Current studies in archaeoastronomy: conversations across time and space: selected papers from the fifth Oxford International Conference at Santa Fe, 1996. Edited by John W. Fountain and Rolf M. Sinclair. Durham, NC, Carolina Academic Press, c2005. 579 p. Oxford International Conference on Archaeoastronomy (7th, 2004, Flagstaff, Ariz.). Viewing the sky through past and present cultures : selected papers from the Oxford VII International Conference on Archaeoastronomy. Edited by Todd W. Bostwick, Bryan Bates. Phoenix, AZ, City of Phoenix, Parks, and Recreation Dept., c2006. 470 p. (Pueblo Grande Museum anthropological papers, no. 15)
Dissertations may be identified by using online resources or the following indexes located in the Main Reading Room. Consult any reference librarian about options. Some dissertations may be available in full text through electronic resources on public terminals at the Library of Congress.
Everson, George Dicken. The celestial Dresden: archaeoastronomy in late post-classic Yucatan. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 1995. Gonzalez, Marty Elizabeth. The archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy of Easter Island. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 1984.
King, Timothy David. The constellation system of the ancient Maya. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2005. Zawaski, Mike J. Archaeoastronomical survey of Inca sites in Peru. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2007. Aldana, Gerardo Villalobos. Oracular science: uncertainty in the history of Maya astronomy, 500-1600. Ann Arbor, MI, University Microfilms, 2001.
Abstracting and Indexing Services that that index relevant journal articles and other literature in the field are listed below. Many of these have moved to electronic-only formats. For open-access indexes see the section titled “Selected Internet Resources.” Consult a reference librarian for assistance in identifying indexes in both print and electronic formats.
Journals that often contain relevant articles include the following:
Aveni, Anthony F. Archaeoastronomy in the ancient Americas. Journal of archaeological research, v. 11, June 2003: 149-191. Belmonte, Juan Antonio, and Mosalam Shaltout. On the orientation of ancient Egyptian temples: new experiments at the oases of the Western desert. Journal for the history of astronomy, v. 37, May 2006: 173-192. Belmonte, Juan Antonio, and others. Archaeoastronomy in the Sahara: the tombs of the Garamantes at Wadi el Agial, Fezzan, Libya. Archaeoastronomy, v. 33, no. 27, 2002: S1-S19. Crowe, Michael J., and Matthew F. Dowd. Archaeoastronomy and the history of science. Archaeoastronomy: the journal of astronomy in culture, v. 14, spring/summer 1999:22-38.
Esteban, César, and others. Orientations of pre-islamic temples of Northwest Africa. Archaeoastronomy, no. 26, 2001: S65-S84. Farhi, B. and A. F. Aveni. Solar eclipses and the temple of the plumed serpents, Xochicalco, Mexico. Archaeoastronomy, no. 22, 1997: S83-S85. Li, Yong. Observational accuracy of sunrise and sunset times in the sixth century China. Chinese journal of astronomy and astrophysics. v. 6, no 5, 2006: 629-634. Peck, Douglas T. Development of celestial navigation by the ancient Maya. Journal of navigation, v. 54, Jan. 2001: 145-149. Schaefer, Bradley E. New methods and techniques for historical astronomy and archaeoastronomy. Archaeoastronomy: the journal of astronomy in culture, v. 15, 2000: 121-135. Tedlock, Dennis, and Barbara Tedlock. The Sun, Moon, and Venus among the stars: methods for mapping Mayan sidereal space. Archaeoastronomy: the journal of astronomy in culture, v. 17, 2002/2003: 5-22. Vail, Gabrielle. The Maya codices. Annual review of anthropology, v. 35, 2006: 497-519.
Selected Materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet box include
Astronomical Society of the Pacific The Center for Archaeoastronomy European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society
International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC)
Anthropological Index Online
Clive Ruggles
Historical Division of the American Astronomical Society Publications SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) |
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