The Mystery of Chaco Canyon
By: a production of the Solstice Project ; produced and directed by Anna Sofaer
Contributors: Dibble, Matt; Redford, Robert; Solstice Project; Bullfrog Films
Publisher: Bullfrog Films
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oley, PA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 56
Subjects: Indians of North America; Antiquities; Archaeology; History; Excavations (Archaeology); Pueblo Indians; Interviews; Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Description: This film examines the deep enigmas presented by the massive prehistoric remains found in Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The film reveals that between 850 and 1150 AD, the Chacoan people constructed massive ceremonial buildings in a complex celestial pattern throughout a vast desert region. Aerial and time lapse footage and computer modeling show how the Chacoan culture designed, oriented and located these buildings in relationship to the sun and moon. Pueblo Indians, descendants of the Chacoan people, also speak of the significnce of Chaco to the Pueblo world today.
Notes: Writers, Anna Sofaer, Matt Dibble ; music, Michael Stearns ; editor, Matt Dibble.

Narrator: Robert Redford.

VHS.

Closed-captioned.