African Cultural Astronomy : Current Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy Research in Africa

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.

著者

Medupe, Rodney Thebe、 Urama, Johnson O.、Holbrook, Jarita

出版社

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

発売日

2007-12-21

価格

価格未定（税込・書誌情報提供：openBD）

ISBN

9781402066382

ページ数

268ページ

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