Maya City Planning and the Calendar (Transactions, Americ...
Aveni, A. / Hartung, H.
This is a print on demand publication. Why do people orient buildings the way they do? That the depiction of the cardinal directions of space had something to do with events taking place in the sky is suggested by cosmological diagrams derived from the civilizations of ancient Mexico. Contents: The Orientation Problem & Categories of Explan., The Orientation of Ceremonial Architecture in Ancient Mesoamerica, Alignment of Maya Sites, Puuc Build...