Event will showcase ancient solar alignments and sky watching June 18 and 20 Each year around the summer solstice, visitors ...

For the first time, a tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral connection to Chaco Canyon, one of the ancient centers of Pueblo culture and society. The members of ...

A thousand years ago, the people living in Chaco Canyon were building massive structures of intricate masonry and trading with locations as far away as Mexico. Within a century, however ...

They trace ancestral connections to the famed complex of sandstone dwellings and roads at Chaco Canyon, a World Heritage site about 125 miles to the west. But the small tribe didn’t have a ...

In the scorching heat of June in 1977, atop a butte in Chaco Canyon, researcher and educator Anna Sofaer made a discovery that would unravel the astronomy of ancient America. Sofaer, who at the time ...

It is a monument definitely exhibiting superior knowledge of astronomy. Chaco Canyon: Casa Bonita at sunset. Credit: Laurie McDonald. CC BY-SA 4.0 Another ancient monument showing knowledge of ...

At its heart lies Chaco Canyon. 1000 years ago ... unless you look at the astronomy. - [Narrator] For more than 300 years, generation upon generation, the astronomers of Chaco tracked and ...

The unexpected "guest star" caught stargazers' attention around the world and may have been depicted on a rare Byzantine coin as well as by Puebloan people in a "supernova pictograph" at Chaco ...

"The Sun Dagger" and "The Mystery of Chaco Canyon" document how the Chaco culture developed a complex astronomy and aligned their ceremonial architecture with the cycles of the sun and moon.

In the scorching heat of late June 1977, atop a butte in Chaco Canyon, Anna Sofaer made a discovery that would unravel the enigmatic astronomy of ancient America. What followed over the next four ...

The smell of dust grew strong as the truck rattled along a washboarded road toward Chaco Canyon. Now on the edge of things ... Anna Sofaer in 1977 overturned our thinking about prehistoric astronomy ...