Selected Annotated Bibliography

Barlow, John P. "Africa Rising," Wired. Jan. 1998: 143 +

Article about the "wiring" of Africa.

Beningfield, Damond. "Circle in the Sand," Stardate. Aug. 1998, pp. 16-19.

Article on the Nabta site and its possible significance as a type calendrical tool.

James Cornell. "The First Stargazers: An Introduction to the Origins of Astronomy," New York: Scribner, 1981

Chapter " Light on the Dark Continent " presents archaeoastronomical information on Africa. Mentions Namoratunga and the Sirius myth held by the Dogon people.

Doyle, Laurance R., and Thomas J. Wilcox. "Statistical Analysis of Namoratunga: An Archaeoastronomical Site in Sub-Saharan Africa?" Journal of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. 1986, pp. 125-128.

Article about the argument over the Namoratunga II site. Its legitimacy as an archaeoastronomical site.

Lynch, B.M., and Robbins, L.H. "Namoratunga: The First Archaeoastronomical Evidence in Sub-Saharan Africa," Science. May 1978: 766-768.

Article about the Namoratunga II site and evidence that shows its archaeoastronomical implications.

Malville, J.M., Fred Wendorf, Ali A. Mazar, and Romauld Schild. "Megaliths and Neolithic Astronomy in Southern Egypt," Nature. Vol. 392.

Article about the Nabta site in Egypt. Shows pictures and diagrams on the alignments of the megaliths.

Paul, G. "The Astronomical Dating of a Northeast African Stone Configuration," The Observatory, 1980: 206-209.

Article on the calculations of the precessions of the seven stars relevant to the Namoratunga II site.

Ruggles, Clive. "Four approaches to the Borana Calendar," Archaeoastronomy in the 1990's. Ed. Clive L.N. Ruggles. Group D Publications, Ltd. Loughbrough, UK.

Article dealing with conflicting reports about the consistency of the Borana calendar.

Schaefer, Bradley E. "Basic Research in Astronomy and its Applications to Archaeoastronomy,"

Article on the use of different astronomical tools and subjects that help in the studies of archaeoastronomy.

Snedegar, Keith V. "Ikwezi," Mercury. Dec. 1997, pp. 12-15.

Article on Africa's use of astronomy.

Snedegar, Keith V. "Stars and Seasons in Southern Africa," Vistas in Astronomy. Vol. 39, pp. 529-538.

Article on the African people's ability to notice the relationships between the stars and seasons.

Snedegar, Keith V. "Astronomical Traditions of Southern Africa."

Article on the examination of the ethnoastronomical heritage of Africa.

Warner, Brian, "Traditional Astronomical Knowledge in Africa," in Astronomy Before the Telescope, Ed. C. Walker, 1996 (London: British Museum Press), pp. 304 - 317.

Review of aspects of contemporary African astronomy.

Wendorf, Fred, Romuald Schild, Alex Applegate, and Achilles Gautier. "Tumuli, Cattle Burials and Society in the Eastern Sahara," Dynamics of Populations, Movements and Responses to Climatic change in Africa, Rome 1997.

Article dealing with the questions of how food developed and the context in which complexity appeared initially in Egypt.

(Q. D. Nguyen)