Posted on 03/29/2022 6:37:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Great article!
Most of science is observation. In ancient times this was accomplished with the naked eye. People ALWAYS watched the skies; it’s known that that’s how animals migrate - and know when to migrate - i.e., by positions of the sun and stars. Following animal migrations would make one more aware of the odd, sometimes hidden factors that drive animal behavior.
Someone was bound to figure it out sooner or later!
The first guy who figures it out says, “Here is where the Sun stops its journey and begins to come back - in a few months the plants wills start putting forth shoots. Let’s put some markers here.” Someone fashions a little window so that on that particular day, the sunlight will shine straight through or maybe there already is one. First it’s like a religion and then it’s science - only for those who know about it - and then everyone takes it for granted.
Over the ensuing years the placement of said markers becomes more sure, so that even the average dweller within that civilization becomes aware of things that were formerly hidden. They may not know what the Sun is or where it came from, but they can see easily enough what it does. Over time, more people come along and fill in the blanks of knowledge and we don’t need markers anymore - we know ahead of time what those special dates are. (And they’re still very important, regardless of how advanced our technology gets.)
I almost went on a motorcycle trip to Chaco Canyon once but it fell through and so I have never been there. :( Now it sounds like you can’t go there at all.
Yes. Agree. And agree that it was very important to know when to plant. And it is now. It does change, year to year.
“Anasazi”
Yes. the “Ancient Ones”.
I first read about it in a magazine I subscribe to, Science 80.
It was a good mag to begin with, then got off track chasing idiots money and forgot about science. I quit subscribing because of that crap.
Agree, and well put!
“how did they previously predict the time of year accurately within two or three days to know where to carefully place and build the towers that would enable them to predict the time of year within two or three days?”
You ask such embarrassing questions!
But it’s a good question. If you knew there was a periodic event how would you go about determing more accurately and repeatedly the point in time of the maximun and minimum of the event?
Thanks for link.
I looked at same site but did not look carefully at the synonyms.
Our local thieves fit in some of the descriptions.
Star Gazers had it going on
Long before we give them credit.
The “Three Wise Men” still
Fascinate me.
Our town was relatively graffiti free until the last couple of years and it’s now everywhere, makes our town look like third world trash hole.
Every vacant building or blank wall is a target for these ‘artists’ who think their trash is art and they have a ‘right’ to create it on someone elses property............
13 towers confused me until
I thought 12 notches for
The signs of the “Zodiac.”
.
That’s a BINGO!
Very bad statement of where we are.
I’ve seen it. And it just adds to the induced confusion and chaos the #ComDem’s are using.
This is all about destroying freedom in the world, especially in the USA.
Far worse than the Nazi’s in the 1930’s and 1940’s.
“Star Gazers had it going on
Long before we give them credit.”
True... Way back. And structures were not required either. Just a local mountain ridge when standing in the same spot. :)
Well, I imagine you start out just putting a stick in the ground or something each day lined up with the sunrise. Then after 365 days you notice that the sun is rising in the same place you put the first stick. After that the rest is easy.
I knew kids like that in school they all turned out to be democrats or inmates.
They learned from observation.
People who think those who came before us were stupid are terribly wrong.
History of sundials go way back.
https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sundial.htm
Now, what is the chance that savages on the other side of the world from the Old World would divide their year into the same number of months as the rest of the world?
If they used a Lunar Month as their divisor, then it’s logical............
Well made video. Answers many of my questions.
Not only would the natural ridges and outcroppings have had to be just as accurately aligned, but for either the natural or manmade structures, as the article noted, the onlooker has to be at a "specific observation point" for the time of year prediction to be accurate.
It seems implausible that along with some natural, but accurately shaped and positioned, ridges and outcroppings there was coincidentally also a specific natural sunset observation point from which one could obtain an accurate prediction of the time of year (solstices, equinoxes) to within two or three days
And still the question remains - how was this ancient civilization able to know that these natural ridges/outcroppings and observation point were accurate time predictors of an equinox or solstice worthy of duplicating with manmade structures?
“If they used a Lunar Month as their divisor, then it’s logical”
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You can discover all sorts of things that way. Noon, solstice and equinox, calender cycles (eg leap years), radius of the the earth, calendars. Combine it with water clocks, lunar observations, and tide measurements and you can discover all sorts of things to theorize about. Add straight edges and a compass and develop nomograms and slide rules and higher math. All with Stone Age technology.
It’s even an opportunity to develop the scientific method, but that’s a leap.
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