Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008aas...212.3909b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #212, #39.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.536
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
After 3 years of personally-funded research in predominantly Ancestral Puebloan, Chacoan, and Mimbres areas in New Mexico and Utah, this author has developed plausible evidence or intriguing examples of what may be ancient recordings by astute sky-watcher eye-witnesses (or of oral tradition re-tellings finally committed to stone and pottery designs) of the same historical supernovae recorded by humankind in Old World texts and words: the Veil supernova (redated to about 3000 B.C.) and the supernovae of 185, 393, 1006, 1054, 1181 and 1572 A.D.
These recordings are in an ancient, holistic Visual Symbols Language which a school child might learn with a little diligence. And, as such, these graphic-art, representational images (of more than "a point of light") and simple celestial-entity symbols are arrayed next to their identifying constellations_oftentimes evoked as descriptive cracks and holes in the natural rock where a glyphist felt the earth mirrored the sky-vault locations overhead. To underline the objective and proto-scientific nature of the supernova observations (along with early great-comet sightings), these are sometimes accompanied by days-visible counter motifs (double-rakes, line rays and centipede legs) which agree to the day with some of the naked-eye visibility records and extrapolations from the Old World histories and records with which we are more familiar.
A simple reason we have not generally identified sites like the author's examples before is that the ancient holistic glyphists utilized the cracks and textures in the rocky outcrops where they wrote: the very evidence we tend to have blind spots towards in our confidence with flat 2-dimensional means of communication such as paper, books, screens, canvases, etc. We have not lived as closely and intimately with potential informational media such as stony outcrops and fired pottery vessels (and sherds) which outlast the millennia even so.
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