Peñasco Blanco

Peñasco Blanco
Peñasco Blanco, a Chacoan Great House
Peñasco Blanco Location within New Mexico today
Coordinates:
Location
Country:	USA
Region:	San Juan County, New Mexico
History
Culture:	Chacoan civilization
First occupied:	900
Abandoned:	1125
Excavation and maintenance
Responsible body:	private
Architecture

Peñasco Blanco ("White Bluff" in Spanish) is a Chacoan Anasazi great house and notable archaeological site located in Chaco Canyon, a canyon in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States.. It is an arc-shaped compound built atop the canyon's southern rim; it was constructed in five distinct stages between 900 AD and 1125 AD. A cliff painting (the "Supernova Platograph") nearby may record the sighting of a supernova on July 5, 1054 AD.^[α]^[1]

Notes

α. ^{^} The Crab Nebula, now a supernova remnant in the constellation of Taurus, was the result of the event in question; it attained peak brilliance on the date that the Chacoans presumably sighted it.^[1]

Citations

^ ^a ^b Kelley & Milone 2004, p. 413.

References

Kelley, DH; Milone, EF (2004), Exploring Ancient Skies: an encyclopedic survey of archaeoastronomy, Springer, ISBN 0-38795-310-8

Pre-Columbian North America

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