On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine: Archaeological Paradigms and the Chaco “Tree of Life“
On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine: Archaeological Paradigms and the Chaco “Tree of Life“
复制标题
追寻孤独松的踪迹：考古范式和查科“生命之树”
作者：
W. H. Wills
查科峡谷（约公元850-1150年）的大房子被广泛认为通过墙壁的朝向和其他天体事件的特征来代表宇宙意义。这种关系的考古学模型被认为是宇宙学的。这些模型的一个突出特征是普韦布洛博尼托的一棵孤独的松树，它被解释为“生命之树”，象征着连接物质世界和天堂世界。这项研究表明，这种解释与上下文数据不一致，应该被驳回。查科未来的宇宙学研究应该努力发展独立验证的方法，以加强对建筑中宇宙象征主义的推论。
Abstract The great houses of Chaco Canyon (ca. A.D. 850–1150) are widely assumed to represent cosmological meaning through the orientation of walls and other features to celestial events. Archaeological models of such relationships are considered cosmographic. A prominent feature of these models is a lone pine tree at Pueblo Bonito that has been interpreted as a “tree of life” symbolically connecting the physical and heavenly worlds. This study suggests that this interpretation is inconsistent with contextual data and should be dismissed. Future cosmographic research in Chaco should endeavor to develop methods of independent verification that will strengthen inferences about cosmological symbolism in architecture.