Maya Correlations,Moon Ages and Astronomical Cycles

Schove D. J. , “Maya chronology and the spectrum of time”, Nature , cclxi (1976), 471–3, corrected in Nature , cclxxxvi (1977), 670.

Aveni A. F. , Skywatchers of ancient Mexico (Austin and London, 1980), 204–15.

Ibid. 210.

Op. cit. (ref. 1).

Kelley D. H. , Deciphering the Maya script (Austin and London, 1976), 32–35.

Op. cit. (ref. 2), 163 ff.

Ibid. , Table 24.

Goldstine H. H. , “New and Full Moons, 1000 b.c. to a.d. 1651”, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society , xciv (1973).

Op. cit. (ref. 1).

Using Kelley D. H. Kerr K. A. , “Mayan astronomy and astronomical glyphs”, in Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Mesoamerican writing systems , ed. by Benson E. P. (Washington, D.C., 1974), 179–215.

Teeple J. E. , Maya astronomy (Washington, D.C., 1930), Table 2, p. 48.

Unpublished typescript by Schove using Teeple's table.

Thompson J. E. S. , Maya hieroglyphic writing (Washington, D.C., 1950), 237–9.

Schove D. J. , “Maya eclipses and the correlation problem”, Estudios de Cultura Maya Mexico , xiv (1982/3), in press.

Op. cit. (ref. 5), 35.

Severin G. M. , “The Paris Codex: Decoding an astronomical ephemeris”, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , lxxi (5) (1981), 101; see Table 10.

Schove , “Maya eclipses and the correlation problem”; Schove D. J. Fletcher A. , Eclipses and comets, a.d. 1–1000 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1984), see a.d. 842. Cf. a conventional approach in Bricker H. M. Bricker V. R. , “Classic Maya predictions of solar eclipses”, Current anthropology , xxiv (1983), 1–23.

Monumenta Germaniae historica , Scriptores, ii (1829), 301–2. In the “Annals of Fulda”, vol. i (1826) of the same series, p. 363, there is an independent record from Germany.

See ref. 10.

See ref. 16, p. 50.

Kelley D. H. , personal communication.

See ref. 16, pp. 63–64.

Ibid. 65.

Closs M. P. , “Venus in the Maya world: Glyphs, gods and associated phenomena”, in Robertson M. G. Jeffers D. C. (eds), Tercera Mesa Redonda de Palenque , iv (Monterey, 1979), 147–65, and “Venus dates revisited”, Archaeoastronomy [Bulletin], iv/4 (1981), 38–41.

Lounsbury F. G. , “Astronomical knowledge and its uses at Bonampak, Mexico”, in Aveni A. F. (ed.), Archaeoastronomy in the New World (Cambridge, 1982), 143–68.

Schove , “Maya eclipses and the correlation problem”.

Rosenfeldt G. , “A statistical analysis of some Palenque dates”, Archaeoastronomy , no. 4 (1982), S49–67.

Kelley Kerr , “Mayan astronomy and astronomical glyphs”.

See Schove D. J. , “The Mayas and the planets, a.d. 293–1237”, Journal of the British Astronomical Association , lxxxvi (1975/76), 466–70 (59·1 years to be added to the a.d. dates).

Schove D. J. , “Maya chronology and planetary conjunctions”, ibid. , lxxxviii (1977/78), 38–52.

See ref. 10.

Schove , “Maya chronology and planetary conjunctions”.

Aveni , Skywatchers of ancient Mexico 97.

Spinden H. J. , “The reduction of Maya dates”, Papers , vi, no. 4 (Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.).

In his last letter (11 April 1977) before he died.

Personal communications, 1978 and 1982.

Idem. .

Kelley D. H. , “Astronomical identities of Mesoamerican gods”, Archaeoastronomy , no. 2 (1980), S1–54, p. S41.

Kelley Kerr , “Mayan astronomy and astronomical glyphs”.

Severin , “The Paris Codex”, 38.

Graham I. , Corpus of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions , i (Cambridge, Mass., 1975), Introduction.

Severin , “The Paris Codex”, 18.

Kelley D. H. , “Astronomical tables and inscriptions”, in Native American astronomy , ed. by Aveni A. F. (Austin and London, 1977), 57–73 (Figs 5.1–5.4).

Lounsbury , “Astronomical knowledge and its uses at Bonampak, Mexico”.

Personal communication.

Bricker Bricker , “Classic Maya predictions of solar eclipses” (and personal communication).

Hathaway J. H. Eighmy J. L. Kane A. E. , “Preliminary modifications of the southwest virtual geomagnetic pole path from a.d. 700 to a.d. 900”, Journal of archaeological science , x (1983), 51–59.

Creer K. M. Tucholka P. Barton C. E. (eds), Geomagnetism of baked clays and recent sediments (Amsterdam, 1983).