Southwestern Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces with Allen Dart
Holland Community Center 34250 N 60th St., Scottsdale, AZ, United StatesNative Americans in the US Southwest developed sophisticated skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before non-Indigenous peoples entered the region. In this presentation, archaeologist Allen Dart discusses archaeological and ethnographic evidence of ancient astronomical and calendrical reckoning practices seen in petroglyphs, architecture, and settlement layouts in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, and […]