# Weiner 2025: Parallel roads, solstice and sacred geography at the Gasco Site: a Chacoan ritual landscape

> Robert S. Weiner, Richard A. Friedman, John R. Stein, 2025. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The 2025 lidar result on Chacoan roads and their…

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# Parallel roads, solstice and sacred geography at the Gasco Site: a Chacoan ritual landscape

Robert S. Weiner, Richard A. Friedman, John R. Stein, 2025. _Antiquity 99(404): 500-516_.

Uses freely available 1 m USGS lidar elevation models and field survey to show that the Gasco Road, about 80 km south of Chaco, runs for more than 6.4 km with a parallel road about 35 m to its south, and that both align with springs and with the winter solstice sunrise over Mount Taylor.

**Great houses of Chaco Canyon** Articledoi: **[10.15184/aqy.2025.4](https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.4)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The 2025 lidar result on Chacoan roads and their alignment.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[The Gasco roads run in a parallel pair for more than 6 km and align with springs and the winter solstice…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/evidence/EVD0D9KV25C7D5M/the-gasco-roads-run-in-a-parallel-pair-for-more-than-6-km)

Evidence

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[Weiner, Friedman and Stein publish lidar mapping of the parallel Gasco roads](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/events/EVT0D9KTRCW124Q/weiner-friedman-and-stein-publish-lidar-mapping-of-the)

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[Robert S. Weiner](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/people/FIG0D9KTHSY54WY/robert-s-weiner)

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

The mystery article

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[What were the Chacoan roads for?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/chaco-canyon/questions/QST0D9KTSVR1WA0/what-were-the-chacoan-roads-for)

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## Cite it

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Weiner, R. S., Friedman, R. A., & Stein, J. R. (2025). Parallel roads, solstice and sacred geography at the Gasco Site: a Chacoan ritual landscape. Antiquity 99(404): 500-516. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.4
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[Read it free at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.4)

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