Aztec solar farmers
Before the arrival of the Spanish in 1519, the basin now known as Mexico City was home to around three million people. To feed so many people in a region featuring a dry spring and summer monsoons, the Aztec farmers needed a precise understanding of when seasonal variations would happen. The question has been, how did they achieve such specific understanding? Some refer to the so-called “Aztec calendar” as represented by the Sun Stone, but that stone was in fact solely a piece of sculpture intended for ceremonial purpose, a bit like Nelson’s Column. The answer to the secrets of the Aztec calendar may be even grander. Aztec manuscripts referred to Mount Tlaloc, which lies at the east end of the basin. Astronomical computer modelling has shown that…
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