Archaeoastronomy

@article{crossref1973archaeoastronomy,
    title = "Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America",
    year = "1973",
    journal = "Science",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1126/science.179.4078.1148-b",
    doi = "10.1126/science.179.4078.1148-b",
    number = "4078",
    openalex = "W4253879093",
    pages = "1148-1148",
    volume = "179"
}

@article{doi101126science17940781148a,
    title = "Archaeoastronomy in pre-columbian america.",
    year = "1973",
    journal = "Science (New York, N.Y.)",
    url = "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17788278/",
    doi = "10.1126/science.179.4078.1148-a",
    pmid = "17788278"
}

@book{brandt1974possible1,
    author = "Brandt, J. C. and Maran, S. P. and Williamson, R. and Harrington, R. and Cochran, C. and Kennedy, M. and Kennedy, W. and Chamberlain, V",
    title = "Possible Rock Art Records of the Crab Nebula Supernova in the Western United States, in Aveni, A. F., ed., Archeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America",
    year = "1974",
    publisher = "Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Brandt, J. C., Maran, S. P., Williamson, R., Harrington, R., Cochran, C., Kennedy, M., Kennedy, W., and Chamberlain, V., 1974, Possible Rock Art Records of the Crab Nebula Supernova in the Western United States, in Aveni, A. F., ed., Archeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America: Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press.}"
}

@article{dow1975archaeoastronomy,
    author = "Dow, James and Aveni, Anthony F.",
    title = "Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America",
    year = "1975",
    journal = "Ethnohistory",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.2307/481290",
    doi = "10.2307/481290",
    number = "1",
    openalex = "W2022669769",
    pages = "76",
    volume = "22"
}

@article{bray1976archaeoastronomy,
    author = "Bray, Warwick",
    title = "Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America",
    year = "1976",
    journal = "Journal of Archaeological Science",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1016/0305-4403(76)90073-x",
    doi = "10.1016/0305-4403(76)90073-x",
    number = "4",
    openalex = "W2316104629",
    pages = "395-396",
    volume = "3"
}

@article{carlson1976book,
    author = "Carlson, John B.",
    title = "Book Review: Archaeoastronomy in America: Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America",
    year = "1976",
    journal = "Journal for the History of Astronomy",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1177/002182867600700307",
    doi = "10.1177/002182867600700307",
    number = "3",
    openalex = "W2577208598",
    pages = "205-206",
    volume = "7"
}

@article{eddy1977archaeoastronomy,
    author = "Eddy, John A.",
    title = "Archaeoastronomy in Pre‐Columbian America. Anthony F. Aveni",
    year = "1977",
    journal = "American Anthropologist",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1977.79.2.02a00740",
    doi = "10.1525/aa.1977.79.2.02a00740",
    number = "2",
    openalex = "W2028787297",
    pages = "497-498",
    volume = "79"
}

@article{gibbs1978archaeoastronomy,
    author = "Gibbs, Sharon",
    title = "Archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian America. Anthony F. Aveni",
    year = "1978",
    journal = "Isis",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1086/351959",
    doi = "10.1086/351959",
    number = "1",
    openalex = "W2517585684",
    pages = "108-109",
    volume = "69"
}

@article{crossref1982archaeoastronomy,
    title = "Archaeoastronomy",
    year = "1982",
    journal = "Nature",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1038/299094b0",
    doi = "10.1038/299094b0",
    number = "5878",
    pages = "94-94",
    volume = "299"
}

The quest for the origin and dispersion of Chagas' disease, the second most important vector-borne disease in Latin America, has epidemiological, immunological, and genetical implications. Conjectures based on accounts of chroniclers, reviews of the archaeological literature and the present distribution of triatomine bugs, the vectors of the disease, held that the origin of the adaptation of Triatoma infestans (a species of the subfamily Triatominae) to human dwellings occurred in prehistoric times. The autopsy of 35 mummies exhumed in the Chilean desert, dated between 470 B.C. and 600 A.D., revealed the presence of clinical manifestations of Chagas' disease and put earlier speculations on a factual basis.

@article{doi101002ajpa1330680405,
    author = "Rothhammer, Francisco and Allison, Marvin J. and Núñez, Láutaro and Standen, Vivien G. and Arriaza, Bernardo",
    title = "Chagas' disease in pre‐Columbian South America",
    year = "1985",
    journal = "American Journal of Physical Anthropology",
    abstract = "The quest for the origin and dispersion of Chagas' disease, the second most important vector-borne disease in Latin America, has epidemiological, immunological, and genetical implications. Conjectures based on accounts of chroniclers, reviews of the archaeological literature and the present distribution of triatomine bugs, the vectors of the disease, held that the origin of the adaptation of Triatoma infestans (a species of the subfamily Triatominae) to human dwellings occurred in prehistoric times. The autopsy of 35 mummies exhumed in the Chilean desert, dated between 470 B.C. and 600 A.D., revealed the presence of clinical manifestations of Chagas' disease and put earlier speculations on a factual basis.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330680405",
    doi = "10.1002/ajpa.1330680405",
    openalex = "W1985369176"
}

@article{doi10103835042648,
    author = "Gingerich, O",
    title = "Archaeoastronomy. Plotting the pyramids.",
    year = "2000",
    journal = "Nature",
    url = "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11099022/",
    doi = "10.1038/35042648",
    pmid = "11099022"
}

F. M. Rick, G. C. Rocha, K. Dittmar, C. E. A. Coimbra, Jr., K. Reinhard, F. Bouchet, L. F. Ferreira,, Crab Louse Infestation in Pre-Columbian America, The Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 88, No. 6 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1266-1267

@article{doi1023073285509,
    author = "Rick, Fernanda and Rocha, Gabriella Campos and Dittmar, Katharina and Coimbra, Carlos Ε. A. and Reinhard, Karl J. and Bouchet, Françoise and Ferreira, Luiz Felipe and da Costa Araújo, Amanda Pereira",
    title = "Crab Louse Infestation in Pre-Columbian America",
    year = "2002",
    journal = "Journal of Parasitology",
    abstract = "F. M. Rick, G. C. Rocha, K. Dittmar, C. E. A. Coimbra, Jr., K. Reinhard, F. Bouchet, L. F. Ferreira,, Crab Louse Infestation in Pre-Columbian America, The Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 88, No. 6 (Dec., 2002), pp. 1266-1267",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.2307/3285509",
    doi = "10.2307/3285509",
    openalex = "W2744325957",
    references = "doi101111j136521331988tb02458x"
}

@article{rick2002crab,
    author = "Rick, F. M. and Rocha, G. C. and Dittmar, K. and Coimbra, C. E A. and Reinhard, K. and Bouchet, F. and Ferreira, L. F. and Araújo, A.",
    title = "Crab Louse Infestation in Pre-Columbian America",
    year = "2002",
    journal = "Journal of Parasitology",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[1266:cliipc]2.0.co;2",
    doi = "10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[1266:cliipc]2.0.co;2",
    number = "6",
    openalex = "W2205465466",
    pages = "1266-1267",
    volume = "88",
    references = "doi101002ajpa1330820204, doi101002sici109686441999041084401aidajpa230co2p, doi1010160014489456900248, doi101016s0001706x99000959, doi101016s0065308x08604935, doi101016s016947580001694x, doi101111j136521331988tb02458x, doi1022199s071810431994001100005, openalexw1554638120, openalexw3157759116"
}

@misc{crossref2009archaeoastronomy,
    title = "Archaeoastronomy",
    year = "2009",
    booktitle = "Astronomy and Culture",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.5040/9798400615597.ch-001",
    doi = "10.5040/9798400615597.ch-001",
    pages = "1-14"
}

Some human parasites originated in prehominid ancestors in Africa. Nematode species, such as Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm), hookworms and Trichuris trichiura are shared by humans and other close phylogenetic primates (Pan and Gorilla), showing that they infected a common ancestor to this group. When humans migrated from Africa to other continents they carried these parasites wherever climate conditions allowed parasite transmission from host to host. Other parasites, however, were acquired throughout human biological and social evolutive history when new territories were occupied. Paleoparasitology data is a valuable source to recover emergence and disappearance of parasite infections through analysis of archaeological remains. Parasites can be used as biological markers of prehistoric human migrations. They are also indicators of diet, as parasite life cycles are related to specific kinds of food consumed by human groups in the different habitats they occupied. We review paleoparasitological findings in South America, comparing human-host and intestinal parasites with life conditions and environmental relationships through time.

@article{doi104067s071773562011000200011,
    author = "Araújo, Adauto and Reinhard, Karl J. and Leles, Daniela and Sianto, Luciana and Iñiguez, Alena Mayo and Fugassa, Martín H. and Arriaza, Bernardo and Orellana, Nancy C. and Ferreira, Luiz Fernando",
    title = "PALEOEPIDEMIOLOGY OF INTESTINAL PARASITES AND LICE IN PRE-COLUMBIAN SOUTH AMERICA",
    year = "2011",
    journal = "Chungara",
    abstract = "Some human parasites originated in prehominid ancestors in Africa. Nematode species, such as Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm), hookworms and Trichuris trichiura are shared by humans and other close phylogenetic primates (Pan and Gorilla), showing that they infected a common ancestor to this group. When humans migrated from Africa to other continents they carried these parasites wherever climate conditions allowed parasite transmission from host to host. Other parasites, however, were acquired throughout human biological and social evolutive history when new territories were occupied. Paleoparasitology data is a valuable source to recover emergence and disappearance of parasite infections through analysis of archaeological remains. Parasites can be used as biological markers of prehistoric human migrations. They are also indicators of diet, as parasite life cycles are related to specific kinds of food consumed by human groups in the different habitats they occupied. We review paleoparasitological findings in South America, comparing human-host and intestinal parasites with life conditions and environmental relationships through time.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.4067/s0717-73562011000200011",
    doi = "10.4067/s0717-73562011000200011",
    openalex = "W2138323852",
    references = "doi101016jijpara201410002, doi101016jwem201306013, doi101073pnas0307312101, doi101073pnas9162091, doi101126science1159769, doi101126science421074161, doi101590s007402762003000900014, doi101590s007402762003000900016, openalexw1607024918, openalexw3177022279, rick2002crab"
}

@incollection{bostwick2015hohokam,
    author = "Bostwick, Todd W.",
    title = "Hohokam Archaeoastronomy",
    year = "2015",
    booktitle = "Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8\_43",
    doi = "10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8\_43",
    pages = "551-564"
}

@incollection{crossref2021archaeoastronomy,
    title = "Archaeoastronomy",
    year = "2021",
    booktitle = "Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58292-0\_10717",
    doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-58292-0\_10717",
    pages = "76-76"
}

How does archaeoastronomy assist archaeologists in comprehending the past of human societies? Archaeoastronomy is an interdisciplinary field that combines scientific principles and astronomical measurements to enhance our understanding of ancient cultures. Its interdisciplinary character appears by blending areas of the natural sciences, such as astronomy, physics, mathematics, and even geology or biology, with others of the social sciences and humanities, such as archaeology, history, prehistory, geography, or anthropology. Throughout this Element we are going to see what archaeoastronomy is about, how it works, and what topics it is applied to, for which we are going to introduce a series of concepts from astronomy, mathematics, and other disciplines.

@misc{gonzálezgarcía2026archaeoastronomy,
    author = "González-García, A. César",
    title = "Archaeoastronomy",
    year = "2026",
    abstract = "How does archaeoastronomy assist archaeologists in comprehending the past of human societies? Archaeoastronomy is an interdisciplinary field that combines scientific principles and astronomical measurements to enhance our understanding of ancient cultures. Its interdisciplinary character appears by blending areas of the natural sciences, such as astronomy, physics, mathematics, and even geology or biology, with others of the social sciences and humanities, such as archaeology, history, prehistory, geography, or anthropology. Throughout this Element we are going to see what archaeoastronomy is about, how it works, and what topics it is applied to, for which we are going to introduce a series of concepts from astronomy, mathematics, and other disciplines.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009639316",
    doi = "10.1017/9781009639316"
}