Astronomical Observatories in the Maya Area
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4487769 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oliver Ricketson, Oliver G Ricketson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1928 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215 |
| Publication date | 1928-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/208047 |
| OpenAlex | W2328613427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
T HE oldest dated ruins so far discovered in the Maya area lie in the center of the northern portion of the Department of Peten, Guatemala. They were first reported by Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley in I916 who named the site Uaxactun, a combination of two Maya words, uaxac, meaning eight, and tun, meaning stone. This name suggested itself, as Stela 9 in this city is inscribed with a date in the Maya calendric system equivalent to June 10, 68 A. D., the earliest date recorded on a monument contemporaneous with the occupation of the city that has yet been found in the New World.' The original Maya name of the city may never be known, so completely has the combination of time, a humid climate, and the ruthlessness of the Spanish conquistadores obliterated evidence pertaining to the once wide-spread Maya civilization. In I925 the Government of Guatemala granted permission to the Carnegie Institution of Washington to carry out archeological investigations at this site
Archaeology · Astronomy · Geography · Maya · Physics · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · History · History and Developments in Astronomy · Latin American history and culture
Maya City Planning and the Calendar
Architecture and the Origins of Preclassic Maya Politics
La vida bajo el cielo estrellado
Geochemical soil analysis of sequential ritual and residential floors from the Maya site of Holtun
Interpretación y Arquitectura mayas
Archaeoastronomy in the Ancient Americas
Oliver Garrison Ricketson, Jr. — 1894-1952
Solar Observatory or Allegory? Calakmul's Group E-Type Complex Form and Function
E-Groups, Pseudo–e-Groups, and the Development of the Classic Maya Identity in the Eastern Peten
Early Maya E Groups, the Milky Way, and creation
Astronomy, Ritual, and the Interpretation of Maya “E-Group” Architectural Assemblages
Equinoctial Sun and Astronomical Alignments in Mesoamerican Architecture
Neither Dopes Nor Dupes
Leaders, Farmers, and Crafters
Early Monumentality in the Belize River Valley
Mound J, Monte Albán
Architecture as Animate Landscape
On Squaring the Circle
Monumental Architecture and the Origins of Maya Civilization
Middle Preclassic Nixtun-Ch'ich
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 1953 - 2024 (72) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |