“If the “carefully placed” towers enabled this ancient civilization to predict the time of year within two or three days, 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?”
Near to these are a couple natural straight ridges with outcroppings sticking up and similarly arranged and aligned. I would theorize that previous solar observations of these natural ridges and outcroppings inspired the more accurate man made structure to be built closer to the main complex.
Star Gazers had it going on
Long before we give them credit.
The “Three Wise Men” still
Fascinate me.
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?