The Santa Cruz Archaeological Society Speaker Meeting

The Santa Cruz Archaeological Society is presenting their free monthly speaker meeting on April16th, 2015. This will take place at Cabrillo College, Sesnon House at 7:30 PM until 9 PM. It would be most appreciated to have this event publicized. Here is a short description of the event.

This presentation highlights the results of archaeoastronomical observations and research at Palenque, a Classic Period Maya ceremonial center in Chiapas, Mexico, carried out by a small group of researchers including Powell between the years 1998 and 2012. Preliminary results of this study were published in the Archaeoastronomy Journal in 2007 and in the book, Archaeoastronomy in the New World: American Primitive Astronomy in 2009. Because the temples and pyramids at Palenque are some of the best preserved—with roofs, doorways, windows and original stucco still intact—they were able document some sophisticated and intricate interactions of sunlight, shadow, and these structures at the precise moments of sunrises and sets on the principal solar stations of the year.

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