Time-Lapse Sequences

During the summers of 2001 and 2002, when I was volunteering at Chaco Culture National Historical Park near Nageezi, New Mexico, I used digital cameras to experiment with time-lapse photography as an inexpensive means of recording the play of light and shadow on anthropogenic features. --Gary A. Becker--

			Sun Dagger 29 SJ 532     19 sequences   29 SJ 532 is a rock art panel which may have been used as a predictive marker used to herald the coming of the summer solstice.						Fajada Butte     6 sequences   Watch the weather over Fajada Butte, famous for its Sun Dagger, a calendrical device for marking the seasons.						Pueblo Bonito Moonrise     2 sequences   The Sun Room in Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon allowed for the maintenance of an indoor sun calendar during the winter.						Casa Rinconada     4 sequences   Casa Rinconada, a great kiva in Chaco Canyon, could have been used to mark the time of summer solstice.						Mt. Evans     2 sequences   Visible from Mt. Evans, the Signal Butte Forest Fire was one of two big Colorado fires in the summer of 2002.						Others       8 sequences   This section contains other miscellanous time-lapse sequences and tests by Gary Becker and Adam Jones.

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