Engineering Chaco: The Anasazi Field Manual - Softcover
It turns out the Chacoan Anasazi were not just building enormous architecture to demostrate their ability to creatively pile rocks...they were building monuments in stone to document their scientific worldview which—much like our own—contained a significant mathematical component. Prior to this research, no previous evidence existed for any type of mathematics in the extant record of the Chacoan Anasazi.
New "in the dirt" GPS correlations document a previously unrecognized geometric design which formed the basis of pre-historic community planning and engineering in both landscape and architecture throughout the Anasazi cultural area and beyond.
Using the latest digital topographic technology, floor plans documented by Earl Morris, Stephen Lekson, Charles DiPeso and others, the book also examines the petroglyphic rock art record, Native American ethnology, fractal analysis and rigorous statistical methodology to reveal stunning and controversial evidence of ancient survey instrument use and design rule engineering along the famous Chaco Meridian.
Beginning with the earliest 9th century Great House constructions in Chaco Canyon, this modern tale of ancient archaeology meticulously follows the clues to Aztec Ruin, Paquimé (near Casas Grandes, Mexico) and El Templo de Tlaloc near Teotihuacán. Recent evidence suggests aspects of this unique and repetitive geometric proportionality were also used by the Inca at Machu Picchu in Peru.
EDITORS NOTE: This Anasazi Field Manual is the black and white version of Engineering Chaco: Anasazi Design Rules on the Chaco Meridian. The two books are identical except for the full-color printing in the collector's edition (now available at https://www.createspace.com/3584880).
New "in the dirt" GPS correlations document a previously unrecognized geometric design which formed the basis of pre-historic community planning and engineering in both landscape and architecture throughout the Anasazi cultural area and beyond.
Using the latest digital topographic technology, floor plans documented by Earl Morris, Stephen Lekson, Charles DiPeso and others, the book also examines the petroglyphic rock art record, Native American ethnology, fractal analysis and rigorous statistical methodology to reveal stunning and controversial evidence of ancient survey instrument use and design rule engineering along the famous Chaco Meridian.
Beginning with the earliest 9th century Great House constructions in Chaco Canyon, this modern tale of ancient archaeology meticulously follows the clues to Aztec Ruin, Paquimé (near Casas Grandes, Mexico) and El Templo de Tlaloc near Teotihuacán. Recent evidence suggests aspects of this unique and repetitive geometric proportionality were also used by the Inca at Machu Picchu in Peru.
EDITORS NOTE: This Anasazi Field Manual is the black and white version of Engineering Chaco: Anasazi Design Rules on the Chaco Meridian. The two books are identical except for the full-color printing in the collector's edition (now available at https://www.createspace.com/3584880).
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Charly was trained as a photo-journalist by the US Army Defense Information School in 1971. He spent most of his career as an engineer specializing in several highly technical disciplines including robotics, instrumentation, military electronic applications and analog computer design. Retiring in 1996 as a Senior Technical Author for Intel Corp.’s Microcontroller Division, he had been awarded their highest individual achievement award for his ground-breaking engineering in the field of artificial intelligence.
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- PublisherWarfield Press, LLC
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0984155937
- ISBN 13 9780984155934
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages268
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Engineering Chaco : The Anasazi Field Manual
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