Anthony Aveni

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

Life

Aveni received his PhD in astronomy from the University of Arizona and is the Russell B. Colgate Professor of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate University , where he has been since 1963. He is considered to be one of the founders of Central American archaeoastronomy among the Maya and Aztecs . Aveni wrote numerous books about it, appeared in many television programs and often gives public lectures (for example regularly in planetariums worldwide and on cruise ships). He currently (2008) lives in Hamilton (New York) .

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

He has received several awards for his teaching, including becoming National Professor of the Year of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in the USA in 1982.

In 2004 he received the HB Nicholson Award from the Peabody Museum at Harvard University for his Mesoamerican studies . In 2013 he received the Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research from the Society for American Archeology in the Earth Sciences category .

Fonts

  • Ancient Astronomers, Smithsonian Books 1993
  • Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico, University of Texas Press 1980 (preface by Owen Gingerich ), new as "Skywatchers", University of Texas Press 2001
  • Rhythms of life - a cultural history of 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
  • Das Rätsel der Nazca, Ullstein 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, pp. 161-171

As editor:

  • Editor: Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy - a reader with commentary, University of Colorado Press 2008
  • Editor with 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 (Oxford Conference 1981)
  • Publisher: World Archaeoastronomy, Cambridge University Press 1989 (2nd International Oxford Conference on Archaeoastronomy 1986 in Mérida, Yucatan)

literature

  • Clive Ruggles, Gary Urton (Editor): Skywatching in the ancient world: new perspectives in cultural astronomy, studies in honor of Anthony F. Aveni, University of Colorado Press 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research , website of the Society for American Archeology
personal data
SURNAME Aveni, Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aveni, Anthony Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of astronomy
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1938