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DatasetsGreat houses of Chaco CanyonSurveyed orientations of fourteen major Chacoan buildings and bearings between them (Sofaer, Tables 9.1 to 9.3)
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Surveyed orientations of fourteen major Chacoan buildings and bearings between them (Sofaer, Tables 9.1 to 9.3)

Fourteen buildings surveyed by six teams between 1984 and 1989 to within about 0.25°, with bearings and distances between the astronomically oriented ones in Table 9.3. The tables are images in the PDF and must be transcribed; the map uses the values for ten canyon buildings and two outliers. Supports: the null-model test of building orientations that neither side has published. Two of the Table 9

Great houses of Chaco CanyonGreat houses of Chaco CanyonVersion 1.0Licence publisher (tables copyright The Solstice Project)Updated 26 Oct 2026

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