# Sofaer 1989: The Great North Road: A Cosmographic Expression of the Chaco Culture of New Mexico

> Anna Sofaer, Michael P. Marshall, Rolf M. Sinclair, 1989. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The bearings and lengths from which the Great North…

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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.

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The bearings and lengths from which the Great North Road line on the map is computed.

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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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