Today on Far Future Horizons we take another exciting foray into the field
of Archaeoastronomy and examine the deep
enigmas presented by the massive prehistoric remains found in Chaco Canyon
in north-western New Mexico.
This documentary is the summation of 20 years of
research. The film reveals that between 850 and 1150 AD, the Chacoan people
designed and constructed massive ceremonial buildings in a complex celestial
pattern throughout a vast desert region. Aerial and time lapse footage,
computer modelling, and interviews with scholars show how the Chacoan culture
designed, oriented and located its major buildings in relationship to the sun
and moon. Pueblo Indians, descendants of the Chacoan people, regard Chaco as a place where their ancestors lived in a sacred
past. Pueblo leaders speak of the significance
of Chaco to the Pueblo
world today.
