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Great Houses and the Sun: Astronomy of Chaco Canyon
J. McKim Malville, Andrew Munro, 2014. Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, ed. Clive L. N. Ruggles, Springer: 577-591.
Traces the south and south-south-east facing of Chaco great houses to Basketmaker III pit structures and the unit pueblos of the northern San Juan, argues that back-wall orientations to the solstice sun or standstill moon may never have been intended and that claimed inter-site standstill alignments result from local topography, and finds solstice horizon foresights at most late Bonito-phase great houses.
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The main published critique of the building and inter-site alignment readings.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Malville, J. M., & Munro, A. (2014). Great Houses and the Sun: Astronomy of Chaco Canyon. Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, ed. Clive L. N. Ruggles, Springer: 577-591. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_47
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Malville, J. McKim and Andrew Munro. “Great Houses and the Sun: Astronomy of Chaco Canyon.” Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, ed. Clive L. N. Ruggles, Springer: 577-591 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_47.