African Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy Research in Africa
(Part of the Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings Series)
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This is the first scholarly collection of articles focused on the cultural astronomy of the African continent. It weaves together astronomy, anthropology, and Africa and it includes African myths and legends about the sky, alignments to celestial bodies found at archaeological sites and at places of worship, rock art with celestial imagery, and scientific thinking revealed in local astronomy traditions including ethnomathematics and the creation...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1402066384
ISBN13:9781402066382
Release Date:December 2007
Publisher:Springer
Length:260 Pages
Weight:1.29 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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