Archaeoastronomical studies have demonstrated that the important civic and ceremonial
buildings in Mesoamerica were largely oriented to sunrises or sunsets on specific dates, but …

The Thirteen Towers of Chankillo run north to south along a low ridge within a fourth-century
BCE ceremonial complex in north coastal Peru. From evident observing points within the …

In the hot dry spring of monsoon-driven environments, keeping an accurate calendar to
regulate the annual planting of crops is of critical importance. Before the Spanish conquest …

Long before they devised a written calendar, the Maya articulated their seasons by means of
an “orientation calendar” that consisted of visual alignments involving their architecture. One …

Since its popular resurgence in the 1960s, the interdisciplinary field of archaeoastronomy,
which seeks evidence from the written as well as the unwritten record to shed light on the …

In the 1920s, during the first archaeological excavations at Uaxactún, Petén, Guatemala, an
architectural complex named Group E was interpreted as an ancient Maya astronomical …

Abstract Mexico's Central Highlands form one of Mesoamerica's fundamental cultural
seams, a point of overlap between two traditions, one to the east and the other to the west …

Consumada la conquista del altiplano mesoaméricano, los españoles se encontraron ante
la dificultad de evangelizar y controlar políticamente a una parte de la población indígena …

This article synthesizes recent advances in the study of astronomy and worldview in
architectural and urban planning in Mesoamerica. Throughout most of this cultural area, the …

A recently accomplished systematic study of 271 architectural orientations measured at 87
archaeological sites in the Maya Lowlands led to several conclusions about the underlying …