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 …

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 …

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 …

Figura 1. Distribución de frecuencias de los azimuts norte-sur y esteoeste de todas las
orientaciones medidas. Figura 2. Distribución de frecuencias de las declinaciones norte y …

In a recent comment Michael Smith argues that the cosmological interpretations of Maya
urban layouts proposed in an article by Ashmore and Sabloff are vague and unconvincing …

One can agree with Ezcurra et al.(1) that the ancient inhabitants of the Basin of Mexico used
prominent mountain peaks as markers of the Sun's positions on agriculturally significant …

Este artículo expone el rol simbólico de los olores en las ceremonias realizadas durante las
veintenas, y muestra cómo el indagar la historia sensorial de los antiguos mexicanos …

Este artículo tiene como propósito hacer una revisión histórica de los diversos testimonios e
hipótesis formuladas desde el siglo xvi sobre la existencia de un “bisiesto náhuatl”, es decir …

We thank Šprajc (1) for his careful reading of our paper (2). He states, coinciding with us,
that “the ancient inhabitants of the Basin of Mexico used prominent mountain peaks as …