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Room 44, Wupatki: Rejecting False Profits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jonathan E. Reyman
Jonathan E. Reyman*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Social Work, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61761
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Abstract

Several solar alignments were found for the east window of Room 44 at Wupatki. Analysis shows that these alignments were the accidental products of National Park Service construction and not the intended design of the original builders of the pueblo. This analysis provides an excellent example of the problems inherent in archaeoastronomical and architectural studies at "reconstructed" and stabilized sites.

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American Antiquity , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , October 1978 , pp. 729 - 733
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1978

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