Bibliogr. dissém., index.

Woven heaven, tangled earth: a weaver's paradigm of the mesoamerican cosmos / Cecilia F. Klein -- Pyramid and sacred mountain / Richard Fraser Townsend -- Precision in the layout of Maya architecture / Anthony F. Aveni, Horst Hartung -- Astronomy, cosmovision and ideology in pre-hispanic Mesoamerica / Johanna Broda -- The zenith, the mountain, the center, and the sea / Clemency Coggins -- A general consideration of the Maya correlation question / Beth A. Collea -- The double-headed dragon and the sky: a pervasive cosmological symbol / John B. Carlson -- Astronomical models of social behavior among some indians of Colombia / G. Reichel-Dolmatoff -- The pleiades and scorpius in Barsana cosmology / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Catachilly: the role of the pleiades and of the southern Cross and 'alpha' and 'beta' centauri in the calendar of the Incas / r. t. Zuidema -- Astronomy at Mach Picchu / D. S. Dearborn, R. E. White -- The information system of middle horizon quipus / William J. Conklin -- Ethnoastronomy of the eastern bororo Indians of Malto Grosso, Brazil / Stephen M. Fabian -- Astromical alignements in medieval islamic religious architecture / David A. King -- Ahu a 'Umi Heiau: a native hawaiian astromical and directional register / Armando M. da Silva, Rubellite K. Johnson -- Summary: archaeoastronomy in the tropics / Owen Gingerich -- The tropical zone: land of opportunity / Sharon L. Gibbs -- Archaeostronomy, ethnoastronomy, and the history of science / Stephen C. Mccluskey -- Culture confronts nature in the dialectical world of the tropics / Billie Jean Isbell.