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Star Cities I have heard the Four Corner archeoastronomy sites called. I suppose that's a good way to look at these prehistoric locales where the Ancestral Puebloans, like all other star-gazing people on the planet, first looked to the sky for direction about their respective temporal home: Earth.
So begins, yet ends, the special series on archeoastronomy, and what some of you might even say is everything you always wanted to know about the subject. . .or not.
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Still, the foundation of this broad and engaging subject, as presented in the original Chaco Canyon diary series, merely touched upon a very complicated narrative that also left many questions unanswered. But not the kind of unanswered question the composer Charles Ives presented in his 20th Century composition some of you might want to play while reading what follows: http://youtu.be/...
Given what follows, let us remain in the present, and this time think about the stupendous achievements of a so-called primitive society––primitive, yes, but only in a relative sense. In my view, anyone who could gaze at the stars, observe the cycles of Nature, follow sun beams tracking across precisely engraved or painted images on rocks, indeed, build dwellings that were perfectly aligned to the sun or moon. . .these are truly advanced people.
That being said we are about to learn other interests and aspects of these prehistoric star gazers and infer what such events meant relative to their cosmology and temporal beliefs. For instance, these kind of observations. . .
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