# Sofaer 2017: Inter-site Alignments of Prehistoric Shrines in Chaco Canyon to the Major Lunar Standstill

> Anna Sofaer, Robert S. Weiner, William Stone, 2017. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The current statement of the lunar-standstill reading.

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D9KT6TC4WTP/inter-site-alignments-of-prehistoric-shrines-in-chaco-canyon  
Publisher: Mysteries Department  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page)  

---

[Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Great houses of Chaco Canyon](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon)Sofaer 2017

**0**

# 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.

**Great houses of Chaco Canyon** Chapterdoi: **[10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0_11](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0_11)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The current statement of the lunar-standstill reading.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Sofaer, Weiner and Stone report inter-site shrine alignments to the major lunar standstill.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KV3W222ZW/sofaer-weiner-and-stone-report-inter-site-shrine-alignments)

Evidence

EVD

[The great houses of Chaco Canyon](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon)

The mystery article

MYS

[Do the buildings and markers at Chaco encode astronomy?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/questions/QST0D9KTT3J4BBQ/do-the-buildings-and-markers-at-chaco-encode-astronomy)

Question

QST

## Cite it

```
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
```

[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59909-0_11)

Key

**SRC** 0D9KT6TC4WTP

Kind

Book chapter

Rights

The publisher's

Kept

27 Oct 2026, for editors

Checked

Against the published original

Added by

[apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo)

The record

Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS.

[CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D9KT6TC4WTP/inter-site-alignments-of-prehistoric-shrines-in-chaco-canyon/csl.json)