Solstice-aligned boulder configurations in Saskatchewan
Alice Beck Kehoe, Thomas F. Kehoe
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Publisher:
Les Presses de l'UniversitÈ d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Les Presses de l'UniversitÈ d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
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Open - No Protection
Open - No Protection
Publication Year:
1979
1979
ISBN-13:
9781772822113
Description:
<p>Of eleven Saskatchewan boulder configurations examined by the authors, three were found to correlate to astronomical phenomena. Although a search for local oral traditions which might explain these associations proved largely fruitless, there was some evidence that the configurations may have functioned as memorials to dead chiefs and as year-beginning markers for past calendar keepers.<br><br>Published in English.</p>
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