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625 people in 95 mysteries

Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.

Great houses of Chaco Canyon
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Anna SofaerRecorded the Sun Dagger; founder of the Solstice Project
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Christopher H. GuitermanDendrochronologist; tree-ring timber sourcing
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Douglas J. KennettLead author of the Room 33 genomic study
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George H. PepperAMNH archaeologist of the Hyde Exploring Expedition
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J. McKim MalvilleAstronomer; critic of the standstill alignments of the great houses
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Larry V. BensonGeochemist; Chaco carrying capacity and drought
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Michael ZeilikAstronomer; critic of the calendrical and lunar readings
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Nathan B. EnglishGeochemist; strontium timber sourcing
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Neil M. JuddSmithsonian excavator of Pueblo Bonito, 1921 to 1927
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Patricia L. CrownArchaeologist; cacao residues and Room 28
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Richard WetherillLed the Hyde Exploring Expedition at Pueblo Bonito
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Robert S. WeinerArchaeologist; Chaco roads and lidar
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Rolf M. SinclairPhysicist; co-author of the Sun Dagger solar and lunar papers
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Stephen PlogArchaeologist; Chaco hierarchy and mortuary studies
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Thomas C. WindesNPS archaeologist; Chaco Wood Project
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Timothy A. KohlerArchaeologist; regional population modelling
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