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Anasazi Solar Marker: The Use of a Natural Rockfall

Evelyn B. Newman, Robert K. Mark, R. Gwinn Vivian, 1982. Science 217(4564): 1036-1038.

A geological and archaeological assessment arguing that the three slabs could have fallen into their positions naturally: the light pattern comes from a natural rockfall that the makers of the spirals put to use, not from slabs set by people.

MYS0D9KTB707Q8J · mystery · click to copyMGreat houses of Chaco CanyonArticledoi: 10.1126/science.217.4564.1036Checked against the original0

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The natural-rockfall reading of the Sun Dagger's slabs.

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Newman, E. B., Mark, R. K., & Vivian, R. G. (1982). Anasazi Solar Marker: The Use of a Natural Rockfall. Science 217(4564): 1036-1038. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.217.4564.1036
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