1 ARCHEOASTRONOMY OF THE CHACOAN PUEBLO

There are many celestial events that can be studied at Chaco Canyon such as the supernova of AD 1054, the solar eclipse of 1097, and the possible viewing of the coronal mass ejections visible around the lunar limb. This paper, however, will focus on using the archeological evidence left by the ancestral Puebloan peoples in the area of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, comparing and contrasting data for solar alignments and observing sites with the evidence for lunar alignments and observing sites. To achieve an acceptable sampling, I have chosen to rely on three majo