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Social Science Native American Studies

Solstice-aligned boulder configurations in Saskatchewan

by (author) Alice Beck Kehoe & Thomas F. Kehoe

Publisher
Canadian Museum of History
Initial publish date
Jan 1979
Category
Native American Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781772822113
    Publish Date
    Jan 1979
    List Price
    $7.99

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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.

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