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African Cultural Astronomy

African Cultural Astronomy

Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy research in Africa

by Jarita Holbrook, Johnson O. Urama and R. Thebe Medupe
Hardback
Publication Date: 21/12/2007
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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 of calendars.
ISBN:
9781402066382
9781402066382
Category:
Astronomy
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
21-12-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
260
Dimensions (mm):
235x156x15mm
Weight:
1.23kg

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