2017
DOI: 10.1017/s0956536117000165
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Solar Observatory or Allegory? Calakmul's Group E-Type Complex Form and Function

Abstract: Members of the Proyecto Arqueológico de la Biosfera Calakmul under Carrasco's direction excavated the Cenote Style Group E-type complex at the Maya site of Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico. The Cenote Style refers to the plan of the E-Group with a series of three temples built onto a long narrow eastern range structure facing a western structure across a broad central plaza. Architectural data exist to evaluate this standardizing group's utility for observing solar events. Astronomical evidence for the function of t… Show more

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“…Certain geographic locations have topographic characteristics lending to their use for horizon-based calendar measurement and solar or other astronomical reckoning in such a way that large-scale seasonal sundials have been created at community centres around the world. Examples are the Maya Group E-type architectural complexes such as those at Uaxactún, Guatemala, and Calakmul, México (Aveni et al 2003;Dowd & Aveni 1998;Dowd et al 1995). Others exist in New and Old World sites, such as at Cahokia's Woodhenge 72 in Illinois, the Big Horn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming, the Roman Meridian Augusti, Campus of Mars, Italy; and the Goseek circular enclosure, Germany (Biehl 2012;Eddy 1974;Fowler 1996;John Fillwalk pers.…”
Section: Key Perspectives On Cosmovisionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Certain geographic locations have topographic characteristics lending to their use for horizon-based calendar measurement and solar or other astronomical reckoning in such a way that large-scale seasonal sundials have been created at community centres around the world. Examples are the Maya Group E-type architectural complexes such as those at Uaxactún, Guatemala, and Calakmul, México (Aveni et al 2003;Dowd & Aveni 1998;Dowd et al 1995). Others exist in New and Old World sites, such as at Cahokia's Woodhenge 72 in Illinois, the Big Horn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming, the Roman Meridian Augusti, Campus of Mars, Italy; and the Goseek circular enclosure, Germany (Biehl 2012;Eddy 1974;Fowler 1996;John Fillwalk pers.…”
Section: Key Perspectives On Cosmovisionmentioning
confidence: 99%