African Cultural Astronomy
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African Cultural Astronomy
Author | : Jarita Holbrook |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1402066392 |
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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.
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