Anasazi Astronomy

An Appraisal of Michael Zeilik's “A Reassessment of the Fajada Butte Solar Marker”

“…He cites as evidence "at Hopi at this time corn and bean planting is carried out" (p. S83). No reference is given for this statement, but it is presumably Beaglehole (1937) or (see Sofaer and Sinclair, 1986b;. However, a similar statement could be made for one crop or another for various dates from April through June: Forde gives a number of solar-guided planting dates at Hopi in those months, and both he and Beaglehole stress the importance of weather 10 determining the exact times of planting.…”