ARQUEOASTRONOMÍA Y CALENDARIO DE TULA GRANDE
ARCHAEOASTRONOMY AND CALENDAR AT TULA GRANDE
Author(s): Hans Martz de la Vega, Héctor Patiño Rodríguez Malpica, Rafael Ángeles Meléndez, Isidro A. Jaimes Hernández
Subject(s): Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Tula; archaeoastronomy; zenith passage of the Sun; major and minor lunar standstills
Summary/Abstract: The results derived from archaeoastronomical measurements of the Tula Grande urban core show the care and attention the Toltec architects gave to shape their ceremonial center, particularly and for this work, concerning the observation of solar zenith transit. We conclude that they generated the 32- and 27-day units to fix particular dates in the 364-day year, the so-called “computing calendar, ”and the city’s spatial organization obeyed the same criteria. However, these results raise questions about what kind of day intervals (and the base number of 4 and 9, respectively) were intended to organize the Toltec community’s yearly activities and shape the layout of the urban core.
Book: La vida bajo el cielo estrellado: la arqueoastronomía y etnoastronomía en Latinoamérica
- Page Range: 115-125
- Page Count: 11
- Publication Year: 2021
- Language: Spanish, Portuguese
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