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Archaeoastronomy, Rock Art, Ancient Pueblos are all linked together in this video. The producers have been researching these related topics for more than a decade in and around the Mancos Canyon of the Ute Tribal Park in Southwestern Colorado. They have located a variety of unique petroglyphs and archaeological sites left behind by Ansazi, now called Ancient Puebloans.
The producers take the viewer on a journey into New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, Utah's Hovenweep and Colorado's Mesa Verde/Mancos Canyon Area. They will show viewers new and unique sites, many not previously presented to the public, which clearly demonstrate how ancient puebloans could depict time and seasons through the use of solar interacive petroglyphs and formations. Arid conditions and a limited growing season created a need for determining an agricultural and ritual calendar similar to that used by the Hopi people today.
Ed Wheeler has a masters in Archaeology / Anthropology from
Brigham Young University and did two years post-masters work
at the University of Missouri, Columbia, in Cultural Anthropology
& Archaeology. Virginia
Wolf has a masters in Geography
and one in Native American Studies / Archaeoastronomy from California
State University, Chico. Both have taught Anthropology in Northern
California at Butte College since the late sixties. They brought
their interests in the Anasazi and the American Southwest to
Butte College and while Virgina was working on her second master's
degree, she began investigating Mancos Canyon, Colorado, for
ancient petroglyphs used to display the winter or summer solstice.
She and Ed have successfully discovered a variety of solstice
sites. These rare sites, many unseen for hundreds of years, are
shown in Sun
Calendars of the Ancient Puebloans
for the first time. VHS 47min $19.95
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