In celebration of the solstice, here are five other archaeological examples of calendar monuments that are thought to have been created to mark the longest and shortest days of the year. HappySolstice
by tribal archaeologist Gary Stickel, who works for the Gabrieleño Band of the Kizh Nation.
Stickel was working to preserve art that has been damaged by weather and graffiti on a large boulder known as Big Rock when he noticed a small hole deliberately carved into the boulder. The shape of the hole matches a known type of Indigenous artifact known as a sun stone or a cog stone, which typically has five protrusions around the edge. Such an object, placed upright in the hole, seems to align like a sundial to the cardinal directions during the solstices.
It’s hoped that preservation of some faded pictographs on the stone, which can be seen more clearly in an early 20th-century photograph and were written about in records from the 19th century, will allow archaeologists to determine the within the religious life of the Kizh people. The rock art may have once depicted elements of the Kizh creation story and is thought to have also played a possible role in fertility rituals for young women.
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