Web Excursions

Getting to Know the Sky
• Mapping the sky from your position: 45 N, 93 W. Add 5 hours to Twin Cities time for "universal time".
• Building a sundial and exploring its properties.
• sun path and solar energy. Another discussion.
• European Southern Observatory (Paranal, Chile)

Native American astronomy
• More on "medicine wheels" [Provincial Museum of Alberta]
• medicine wheels -- school lesson [Univ. of Sasketchewan]
• "Woodhenge" at Cahokia Mounds, largest prehistoric site north of Mexico (near today's St. Louis)
• Maya Astronomy

Other early cultures
• Ancient Astronomy [Pomona College Dept. of Astronomy]
• Archaeoastronomy & Ethnoastronomy -- major hub of websites
• Instruments at Jaipur, India