Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Chaco Culture' has mentioned 'Sun' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| [2][4] Evidence of archaeoastronomy at Chaco has been proposed, with the "Sun Dagger" petroglyph at Fajada Butte a popular example. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Geography 2 Geology 3 Climate 4 Flora and fauna 5 History 5.1 Archaicxe2x80x93Early Basketmakers 5.2 Ancestral Puebloans 5.3 Athabaskan succession 5.4 Excavation and protection 6 Management 7 Sites 7.1 Central canyon 7.2 Outliers 8 Ruins 8.1 Great houses 8.2 Uses 9 Archaeoastronomy 9.1 Sun Dagger 9.2 Alignments 10 Gallery 11 See also 12 Notes 13 Citations 14 References 15 Sources 16 Further reading 17 External links | WIKI |
| Sun Dagger[edit] | WIKI |
| Two whorl-shaped etchings near the top of Fajada Butte compose the "Sun Dagger" petroglyph, tucked behind the eponymous rock panels of the "Three-Slab Site". | WIKI |
| The former and larger whorl to its right was lit by the titular "sun dagger", which bisected it through another interplay of slab and sunlight. | WIKI |
| It struck it, brilliantly, as the summer sun attains its solstice midday peak. | WIKI |
| The Chacoans were said to be marking, as artist, "Sun Dagger" discoverer, and leading proponent Anna Sofaer puts it, "the middle of time". | WIKI |
| [79] Public access to the butte was curtailed when, in 1989, erosion from modern foot traffic was found to be responsible for one of the three screening slabs at the "Sun Dagger" site shifting out of its ancient position; the assemblage of stones has thus lost some of its former spatial and temporal precision as a solar and lunar calendar. | WIKI |
| Some parties have advanced the theory that at least 12 of the 14 principal Chacoan complexes were sited and aligned in coordination, and that each was oriented along axes that mirrored the passing of the Sun and Moon at visually pivotal times. | WIKI |
| [77] The great houses of Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl were found by the "Solstice Project" and the U.S. National Geodetic Survey to be sited along a precisely east-west line, an axis that captures the passage of the equinox sun. | WIKI |