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The Great North Road: A Cosmographic Expression of the Chaco Culture of New Mexico
Anna Sofaer, Michael P. Marshall, Rolf M. Sinclair, 1989. World Archaeoastronomy, ed. Anthony F. Aveni, Cambridge University Press: 365-376.
Describes the road's course from Pueblo Alto: 13° east of north for 3 km to Escavada Wash, within half a degree of north for 16 km to Pierre's Complex, then about 2° east of north for 31 km to a stairway down into Kutz Canyon, with doubled and quadrupled parallel stretches and almost no settlements along it. Reads it as a cosmographic road to the direction of emergence.
What it's used for here
The bearings and lengths from which the Great North Road line on the map is computed.
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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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Sofaer, A., Marshall, M. P., & Sinclair, R. M. (1989). The Great North Road: A Cosmographic Expression of the Chaco Culture of New Mexico. World Archaeoastronomy, ed. Anthony F. Aveni, Cambridge University Press: 365-376. https://solsticeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/22-greatnorth2028198929.pdf
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Sofaer, Anna et al.. “The Great North Road: A Cosmographic Expression of the Chaco Culture of New Mexico.” World Archaeoastronomy, ed. Anthony F. Aveni, Cambridge University Press: 365-376 (1989).