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The Fajada Butte Solar Marker: A Reevaluation
Michael Zeilik, 1985. Science 228(4705): 1311-1313.
Argues from Pueblo ethnography and the marker's precision that the site is not an accurate solar calendar and was more likely a sun shrine, and that neither ethnography nor the site's behaviour supports its use to mark or anticipate the 18.6-year lunar standstill.
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The main published critique of the Sun Dagger's calendrical and lunar readings.
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Zeilik, M. (1985). The Fajada Butte Solar Marker: A Reevaluation. Science 228(4705): 1311-1313. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.228.4705.1311
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Zeilik, Michael. “The Fajada Butte Solar Marker: A Reevaluation.” Science 228(4705): 1311-1313 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.228.4705.1311.