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witzel at HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU
witzel at HUSC3.HARVARD.EDU
Sat Oct 7 14:14:29 UTC 1995
Certainly a very good idea!
We had a very instructive conference on this topic at U. Missouri/
Columbia a few years ago. We learned a lot from each other, across the
board (Near East/India/Maya)...
We should address, e.g., the question of ancient realtions (or not)
between Babylonia and India...
I suggest that you inform/invite Prof. Aveni (Colgate U.) who has been
working on Meso-American astro-arch. for along time. His book sky watchers of
ancient Mexico is very useful for anyone working on ancient astronomy
(esp. the chapter dealing with watching the sky with naked eyes!).
For an outcome of the Columbia/MO conference, see a re-evaluation of the
image/asterism of the Big Dipper/Ursa Maior in the Veda, in: Electronic
Journal of Vedic Studies :
(http://www.india.shore.net/~ejvs or http://www.arcadia.polimi.it
/~ejvslist/ )
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