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Solar Astronomy in the Prehistoric Southwest
A slide show of Anasazi astronomical sites with extensive notes.
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/Public/education/archeoslides/archeoIndex.html
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Cultural Astronomy
A multimedia introduction to archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy suitable for K-12 teachers and students. Part of the University of Chicago's Digital Library.
http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/diglib/science/cultural_astronomy/
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How the Shaman Stole the Moon
An archaeoastronomy book by William H. Calvin of the University of Washington. The book, which describes a dozen ways of predicting eclipses, can be purchased or downloaded for personal reading at no charge.
http://www.williamcalvin.com/bk6/
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Ancient Egyptian Chronology and the Astronomical Orientation of Pyramids
Article by Kate Spence contending that the Egyptians aligned the pyramids to north by using the simultaneous transit of two circumpolar stars.
http://hbar.phys.msu.su/gorm/dating/spence1.pdf
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A Brief Evaluation of Kate Spence's Article in NATURE
Article rebutting Kate Spence's theory that the pyramids were aligned to north by using the simultaneous transit of two circumpolar stars.
http://www.robertbauval.co.uk/articles/articles/spence.html
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