What were the Chacoan roads for?
Most likely: ceremonial roads laid out to directions, sacred places and sky events, expressing a cosmology rather than…Ahead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Four answers have been proposed. Ceremonial roads laid out to directions, sacred places and sky events, expressing a cosmology rather than… leads, with evidence 2 for: partly supported by its tests. Three are still possible.
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History
- English et al.: more than 200,000 beams were carried from mountains 75 to 100 km away.For: Routes for moving timber, food and goods between the canyon and its source areas.
- Benson et al. puts forward: routes for moving timber, food and goods between the canyon and its source areas.
- Benson et al.: importing food for 2,300 people would take up to 18,000 foot trips.For: Routes for moving timber, food and goods between the canyon and its source areas.
- Kohler et al. puts forward: infrastructure of a regional polity that tied outliers to the centre and displayed its power.
- Weiner et al.: the Gasco roads run in a parallel pair for more than 6 km and align with springs and the winter solstice…For: Ceremonial roads laid out to directions, sacred places and sky events, expressing a cosmology rather than…
- Kohler et al.: kohler and colleagues treat roads and shrines or signalling stations as expected features of a polity of…For: Infrastructure of a regional polity that tied outliers to the centre and displayed its power.
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