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1891–1977 United States

Maud Worcester Makemson (née Maud Lavon Worcester; September 16, 1891 – December 25, 1977) was an American astronomer, an expert in archaeoastronomy, and director of Vassar Observatory. She received in 1941 a Guggenheim Fellowship to study Maya astronomy and in 1953–1954 was a Fulbright Scholar in Japan and India.

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The Marquesans and the Gilbert Islanders divided the year into intervals which had no connection with the lunar month and were governed solely by the stars.

The Morning Star Rises (1941)

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