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The Maya lunar season

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

H.G. MacPherson
H.G. MacPherson*
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Abstract

Archaeoastronomy in Europe, when it comes to megalithic sites, is still at the perhaps stage: perhaps there was some systematic understanding of the heavens that can be called astronomy, perhaps there was not. In the Americas matters are different, with the ‘long-count’ and other systems showing a clear interest in calendars, and in the timely movements of the heavens. Here the lunar order of the Maya scheme of things is set out.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 233 , November 1987, pp. 440 - 449
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1987

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