Thousands of Ancient Petroglyphs, ‘Dramatic’ Solar Calendar Reported in N. Arizona

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Archaeologists exploring the remote mesas of northern Arizona have uncovered a trove of previously undocumented rock art, including more than 1,500 petroglyphs, and confirmed the presence a prehistoric solar calendar, which has been marking the seasons for more than 700 years with a striking “shadow dagger” that travels across its sandstone face.

Researchers made these finds in the backcountry of Wupatki National Monument northeast of Flagstaff, which includes the ruins of dozens of sites built by Ancestral Puebloans known as the Kayenta and the Sinagua.

Experts with the Museum of Northern Arizona [MNA] and the National Park Service set out to explore the isolated reaches of the monument in 2014, in order to document the full extent of the rock art and other features that scientists had not studied in decades or, in many cases, had never seen before.

“As a result of the current project, the NPS now has a complete library of photographic images of every panel, every element, and every feature [in the study area]”, said MNA’s David Purcell, who supervised the study.

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1. Many Many Thanks

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[Merryland]

2. Thanks!

Just sent this to my archeologist daughter in New Mexico - sounds like a wonderful find!

[SamKnause]

3. K&R

Thanks

[SCantiGOP]

4. Waiting for the morons

To weigh in about how this is going to predict the end times.

[Igel]

5. Maybe you can answer this.

If you can, even in part, PM me.

There apparently was a lot of migration or culture/population substitutions from 1100-1300 AD, whether the change in this article, changes up in Canada, or the Shoshone.

Why?

Europe saw a lot of population movement in the range 400-600 AD, with Goths and Slavs moving around quite a bit, and the cause is sort of a long-standing mystery, so maybe my "why?" has no answer. "Climate change" is the most common answer. One version I've seen is that the climate up in/around Poland became very wet, so that crops failed, villages flooded, etc. I've also heard the same kind of explanation crouched in terms of temperature or, conversely, that leading up to the migrations there had been numerous years of plenty that led to huge population growth.

Others have suggested that Finns were moving in from the east, or other movements far off the radar pushed populations. (Not even oral histories help here.)