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Most likelyThe Sun Dagger marks the solstices, equinoxes and lunar standstills, and great houses and shrines are aligned…
Most likelyMost great houses face south to south-south-east, continuing the orientation of earlier pit houses and unit…
Most likelyThe site was a sun shrine where the solstices and equinoxes were watched and honoured, not a calendar for…
Most likelyThe lunar shadow positions are by-products of the slabs' shape; the site was not used to follow the…
Most likelyFewer than about 1,000 lived in the canyon year-round; the rest of the capacity was for visitors or storage
Most likelyThe seat of a hereditary elite whose house at Pueblo Bonito controlled ritual and long-distance exchange
AnsweredMost construction timber came from the Chuska, Zuni and Mount Taylor ranges, 75 km or more away, with the…
Most likelyCeremonial roads laid out to directions, sacred places and sky events, expressing a cosmology rather than…
Most likelyA severe drought from about 1130 made the canyon and its supply areas unable to support the system