Solstice Project Papers

Sociopolitical, Ceremonial, and Economic Aspects of Gambling In Ancient North America:A Case Study Of Chaco Canyon

Robert S. Weiner.
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Remote Sensing of Chaco Roads Revisited in Advances in Archaeological Pract

by Richard Friedman, Anna Sofaer, and Robert Weiner © Society for American Archaeology 2017.
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Inter-site Alignments of Prehistoric Shrines in Chaco Canyon to the Major Lunar Standstill

by Anna Sofaer, Robert Weiner, and William Stone. 2017. In The Science of Time 2016: Time in Astronomy & Society, Past, Present and Future, edited by E. Arias, L. Combrinck, et al, pp. 79-102. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings 50. Springer, Cham.

The Sun Dagger Interactive Computer Model: A Digital Restoration of A Chacoan Calendrical site

By Anna Sofaer, Alan Price, James Holmlund, Joseph Nicoli, and Andrew Piscitello
Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest, Editors William H. Walker and Kathryn R. Venzor, Publisher: University Press of Colorado, 2011.

The Primary Architecture of the Chacoan Culture: A cosmological expression

By Anna Sofaer
Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, edited by Stephen Lekson: University of Utah Press, 2007.

The Great North Road: a Cosmographic Expression of the Chaco Culture of New Mexico

By Anna Sofaer
Solstice Project, Washington, DC, Michael P. Marshall, Cibola Research Consultants, Corrales, New Mexico, and Rolf M. Sinclair , National Science Foundation, Washington, DC
World Archaeoastronomy, edited by A. F. Aveni, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Pueblo Bonito Petroglyph on Fajada Butte: Solar Aspects

By Anna Sofaer
In Celestial Seasonings: Connotations of Rock Art, Papers of the 1994 International Rock Art Congress, ed. E. C. Krupp. In press.

Lunar Markings on Fajada Butte, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

By Anna Sofaer, Washington, DC, R. M. Sinclair, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC and L. E. Doggett, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, DC
Archaeoastronomy in the New World, edited by A.F. Aveni, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Astronomical Markings at Three Sites on Fajada Butte

By Anna Sofaer and Rolf M. Sinclair
Astronomy and Ceremony in the Prehistoric Southwest, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Anthropological Papers, No. 2, edited by John B. Calrson and W. James Judge, Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1983.

A Unique Solar Marking Construct

By Anna Sofaer, Volker Zinser, and Rolf M. Sinclair
Science, 19 October 1979, Volume 206, Number 4416, pp. 283-291

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