Pueblo Bonito Corner Window
by Kathleen Bishop
Title
Pueblo Bonito Corner Window
Artist
Kathleen Bishop
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Fine art architectural photograph of prehistoric Native American ruins constructed by the Anasazi, or Hisatsinom, people between 1030-1079 AD in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.
Corner windows are rare in Anasazi construction. There is speculation that this window was purposely sited to function as an astronomical calendar, aligning with the Winter Solstice. On the morning of the Winter Solstice, the rising sun shines through the portal and strikes the opposite corner of the room behind it.
While intriguing, this theory cannot be proven because the second-story corner window is on an inner wall of the pueblo. Whether or not the outer adjoining room had a second story that would have blocked the sun coming through this window is anyone’s guess because the outer room no longer exists.
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September 22nd, 2018
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