Anthony Aveni

Anthony Francis Aveni ( born March 5, 1938) is an American astronomer and historian of astronomy ( archaeoastronomy ).

Aveni doctorate in astronomy at the University of Arizona and is Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate University, where he has been since 1963. He is considered one of the founders of Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy among the Maya and Aztecs. Aveni wrote numerous books, appeared on many television programs and is a frequent public lectures (for example, regularly in planetariums worldwide and on cruise ships ). He currently resides (2008) in Hamilton (New York).

In addition to Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy he also studied, for example, the Nazca Lines and Astronomical traditions of the Pacific region and techniques of navigation in Polynesia. He also wrote children's books such as "The First Americans" ( 2005).

For his teaching he received several awards, including 1982 he became National Professor of the Year of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in the United States.

For his Mesoamerican studies, he was awarded the 2004 HB Nicholson Award from the Peabody Museum of Harvard University.

Writings

  • Ancient Astronomers, Smithsonian Books 1993
  • Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico, University of Texas Press, 1980 ( Foreword by Owen Gingerich ), new as " Skywatchers ", University of Texas Press 2001
  • Rhythms of life - a cultural history of the time, Klett-Cotta, 1991 ( English original: Empires of Time - calendars, clocks and cultures, Basic Books, 1989)
  • Dialogue with the stars, Klett-Cotta 1995 ( English original: Conversing with the Planets - how science and myth invented the cosmos, Times Books, 1992)
  • Behind the Crystal Ball: Magic, Science and Religion from Antiquity through the New Age, Times Books 1996
  • Stairways to the Stars: Skywatching in Three Great Ancient Cultures, Wiley, New York 1997
  • The mystery of the Nazca, Ullsteinhaus 2001 ( English original: Between the Lines - the mystery of the giant ground drawings of ancient Nazca, Peru, University of Texas Press, Austin 2000)
  • Nasca: Eighth Wonder of the World, London, British Museum 2000
  • The Book of the Year A Brief History of Our Seasonal Holidays, Oxford University Press 2003
  • With Horst Hartung: Maya City Planning and the Calendar, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1986
  • Uncommon Sense: Understanding Nature's Truths Across Time and Nature, University of Colorado Press 2006
  • Peoples and the Sky -our anchestors and the cosmos, Thames and Hudson 2008
  • Tropical Archeoastronomy, Science, Vol 213, 1981, p.161 -171

As the editor:

  • Publisher: Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy - a reader with commentary, University of Colorado Press 2008
  • Published by Gabrielle Vail: The Madrid Codex -new Approaches for understanding and ancient Maya script, University of Colorado Press 2004
  • Publisher: The Sky in Mayan Literature, Oxford University Press 1992
  • Publisher: Archeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America, University of Texas Press 1975
  • Publisher: Native American Astronomy, University of Texas Press 1977
  • Editor with Gary Urton: Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics, New York Academy of Sciences 1982
  • Publisher: Archaeoastronomy in the New World: American Primitive astronomy, Cambridge University Press, 1982 ( Conference Oxford 1981)
  • Publisher: World Archaeoastronomy, Cambridge University Press, 1989 ( Oxford 2.International Conference on Archaeoastronomy, 1986 in Merida, Yucatan)
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