African Cultural Astronomy

African Cultural Astronomy
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By:"Jarita Holbrook","R. Thebe Medupe","Johnson O. Urama"
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Published on 2008-01-01 by Springer Science & Business Media

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This is the first scholarly collection of articles focused on the cultural astronomy of the African continent. It weaves together astronomy, anthropology, and Africa and it includes African myths and legends about the sky, alignments to celestial bodies found at archaeological sites and at places of worship, rock art with celestial imagery, and scientific thinking revealed in local astronomy traditions including ethnomathematics and the creation of calendars.

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