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Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon
published by the Exploratorium
This Exploratorium site offers an online "tour" of the sites and structures within Chaco Canyon, an ancient Pueblo solar observatory. The different pages on the tour detail several of the most famous sites where significant solar alignments occur each year. A section called "seasons and solstices" provides further information.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/HTML/seasons2.html
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Record Creator: Metadata instance created March 12, 2009 by Logan Hancock
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Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon (Exploratorium, San Francisco, 2009), WWW Document, (http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/HTML/seasons2.html).
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Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon (Exploratorium, San Francisco, 2009), <http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/HTML/seasons2.html>.
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Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon. (2006, October 14). Retrieved May 20, 2013, from Exploratorium: http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/HTML/seasons2.html
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Exploratorium. Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon. San Francisco: Exploratorium, October 14, 2006. http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/HTML/seasons2.html (accessed 20 May 2013).
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Ancient Observatories: Chaco Canyon. San Francisco: Exploratorium, 2009. 14 Oct. 2006. 20 May 2013 <http://www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/HTML/seasons2.html>.
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