The Sun Dagger Interactive Computer Graphics Model: A Digital Restoration of a Chacoan Calendrical Site
Anna Sofaer, Alan Price, James Holmlund et al., 2011. Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest, University Press of Colorado: 67-92.
Records how the site was documented: timed photographs from 1978 (Kernberger), lunar standstill photographs in 1980 and 1987, photogrammetry in 1981 and 1984, and a laser scan in 2005, combined into a 3D model that reproduces the 1978 photographs. In 1989 the middle slab was found to have pivoted 2 to 5 cm and the markings no longer formed as recorded; by 2005 it had moved 15 cm on one axis, the eastern slab 5.4 cm and the western 0.8 cm. Places the site on a south-east-facing cliff near the top of the 135 m butte.
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The record of the Sun Dagger's documentation, its disturbance and its digital restoration.
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Sofaer, A., Price, A., Holmlund, J., Nicoli, J., & Piscitello, A. (2011). The Sun Dagger Interactive Computer Graphics Model: A Digital Restoration of a Chacoan Calendrical Site. Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest, University Press of Colorado: 67-92. https://doi.org/10.5876/9781607320913.c006
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Sofaer, Anna et al.. “The Sun Dagger Interactive Computer Graphics Model: A Digital Restoration of a Chacoan Calendrical Site.” Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest, University Press of Colorado: 67-92 (2011). https://doi.org/10.5876/9781607320913.c006.