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Inter-site Alignments of Prehistoric Shrines in Chaco Canyon to the Major Lunar Standstill

Anna Sofaer, Robert S. Weiner, William Stone, 2017. The Science of Time 2016 (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings 50), Springer: 79-101.

Reports alignments between small hilltop shrines in and around Chaco Canyon that the authors read as oriented to the rising and setting of the moon at its major standstill.

MYS0D9KTB707Q8J · mystery · click to copyMGreat houses of Chaco CanyonChapterdoi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0_11Checked against the original0

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The current statement of the lunar-standstill reading.

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Sofaer, A., Weiner, R. S., & Stone, W. (2017). Inter-site Alignments of Prehistoric Shrines in Chaco Canyon to the Major Lunar Standstill. The Science of Time 2016 (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings 50), Springer: 79-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0_11
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