Alta Vista Ruin Site,
Zacatecas State, Mexico
Alta Vista Ruin Site
Chalchihuites   is another name
for this ruin site.  The ruin has been
examined by Archeoastronomer
Anthony F. Aveni and found to
contain solar significance and a
deliberate placement on the Tropic
of Cancer by builders of the
Teotihuacan culture.  
A solar equinox alignment and a
summer solstice alignment of the
sun over a distant mountain at dawn
and two Teotihuacan style
petroglyphs are features that link
Alta Vista with Teotihuacan as a
ceremonial outpost at the northern
limit of Mesoamerica.  
Charles Kelley was the principle
investigator at Alta Vista
Chalchihuites or Alta
Vista as the ruin is
called has yielded
evidence of sun
worship and the
tracking of the solar
cycles.
The placement of
the ruin at the
northern most limit
of the suns apparent
movement and the
accompanying
seasonal changes
mark the site as a
ritual center
attributed to builders
of the Teotihuacan
culture as a
ceremonial outpost
at the northern limit
of Mesoamerica.  
Other Mesoamerican sites with solar observatories
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