Posted on 03/04/2007 10:00:49 AM PST by ameribbean expat
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/la-sci-observatory2mar02,0,1844623.story
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No disrespect to our archaeologist heroes, but having observed this phenomenon since childhood, I have come to the conclusion that every old pile of rocks from Stonehenge to a crack in the cliff at Chaco Canyon can be called a "solar observatory."
Maybe. However they also observed the moon and the planet Venus in detail. A stick in the ground would do to observe the sun.
Not really observatory (in the sense of better observing the sun) as solar calendar (which is vital in agricultural communities in order to know when to plant)
Archeologists have solved the mystery of the Thirteen Towers, a line of low stone structures that have spanned an arid Peruvian slope like a massive set of prehistoric teeth for 2,400 years.
The towers lined up outside the citadel at Chankillo are a massive solar observatory that marks not only the summer and winter solstices, but also the days and weeks of the year.
The evidence that they are an observatory is unequivocal, said Clive Ruggles, a professor of archeo-astronomy at the University of Leicester and one of the authors of the paper in today's issue of the journal Science.
Not flat earth people, so much for whoever it was discovering that the earth was round.
Towers Point To Ancient Sun Cult (Peru)
BBC | 3-1-2007
Posted on 03/01/2007 4:16:57 PM EST by blam
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