Solstice Project

Learn about Solstice Project’s fascinating studies using LiDAR to visualize and reveal Chaco’s great roads. Our website has a wealth of information.
https://solsticeproject.org/the-lidar-study/

We have yet to fully understand the brilliance of the people who 1000 years ago flourished in the harsh and arid Chaco Canyon and surroundings, withstanding these conditions to build a center as outstanding as the Vatican, ancient Athens or the pyramids.
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Watch the exciting trailer for our fourth film, "From the Mind’s Eye" which expands our groundbreaking research in Chaco Canyon to a global scale. The film draws striking parallels between four ancient civilizations—separated by thousands of years and miles— as they used architecture, geometry, and celestial alignments to unify sky and earth—creating monumental forms visible only from above or within the mind’s inner vision. View it on our website.
https://solsticeproject.org/winter-solstice-2025/

If you haven’t seen the "Makowa: The Worlds Above Us" exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, it’s on view through August 17. Through constellations, eclipses, clouds, birds and more, the exhibit invites visitors to take part in ways that people—especially Indigenous peoples of the Southwest— have long made sense of and connected with the worlds above.

The patterns of astronomical alignments in the central canyon and their relationships to sacred landscape are repeated throughout the Chaco world, according to our latest research. Our Sun Dagger Explorer Model reveals more about Chaco’s ancient celestial calendar. You can view it on our website:
https://solsticeproject.org/sun-dagger-explorer-model

As the BLM considers the flood of public comments opposing its plan to lift all restrictions and protective measures around Chaco Canyon to allow and support drilling for oil and gas, it’s critical to stress that as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Chaco Canyon has legal protection under international convention.
https://solsticeproject.org/our-mission

Join Solstice Project Founder Anna Sofaer and Kyle Tisdel of the Western Environmental Law Center TOMORROW (August 4) for a discussion about Chaco Canyon and how to protect it! The event is part of Drinking Liberally Santa Fe's monthly meeting series and will take place at Boxcar SF, 133 W. Water St., from 5 to 7 p.m.

Our award-winning film, "The Mystery of Chaco Canyon," has aired more than 10,000 times on 95% of the nation’s PBS stations since its release in 2000. New Mexico PBS has broadcast it more than 90 times. Find out where to watch it on our website.
https://solsticeproject.org/the-mystery-of-chaco-canyon/

"At once grand and intimate, 'Written on the Landscape' conveys the poetry, wisdom and experience of the Chaco World for the benefit of people today, and tomorrow."
—Scott Ortman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director, Center for Collaborative Synthesis in Archaeology, University of Colorado-Boulder
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