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Sun Dagger, The

• 1982 ----- color ----- 59 min ----- vhs
• Presents the intriguing story of perhaps the most exciting early Indian discovery in North America. The "dagger", a celestial calendar rediscovered by Washington D.C. artist Anna Sofaer in 1977, is presently the only known site in the world that marks the extreme positions of both the sun and the moon. The film explores the extraordinary culture of the Anasazi Indians who constructed the calendar, and thrived both spiritually and materially in the harsh environment of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, a thousand years ago. "It changes forever history's perceptions of America's early Indian colonists. And as an astronomical and geometrical marvel, it ranks with the Pyramids and Stonehenge."--Science 83.
• Topics: (American Indian Studies, Archaeology, Religions)

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