Chaco Fractal Architecture: Mathematics and Metaphor at the Dawn of Prehistoric Science - Softcover

Gullett, Charly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985600381 ISBN 13: 9780985600389

Verlag: Warfield Press, LLC, 2012

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Chaco Fractal Architecture is a conundrum in prehistory, a shout-out from the ancients describing the infinite labors of imagination; a tripartite collision of science, mysticism and architecture using the illuminating addition of metaphor to produce an entire architectural spectrum of prehistoric science, social memory and symbolic resonance. This genre of ancient architecture mirrors not only a revolutionary intellectual and technological clash in Ancestral Puebloan experience but also records—in the enduring medium of fractal masonry—significant arithmetic achievements made by an advanced culture who left preciously small amounts of traditional artifact evidence to document their enormous scientific accomplishments. Previous design rule studies have demonstrated Chacoan Great House engineers were clearly modeling prehistoric architecture using an advanced form of scale-free geometry; a rare implementation of mathematics based on a unique and remarkable arithmetic ratio known to modern science as PHI. That Chacoan engineers were using advanced algebra to design load-bearing architecture in 850AD is astonishing by itself, but the repeated use of fractal geometry, a form of arithmetic not well understood nor clearly defined in modern scientific discipline until the 1970's, is perhaps the most profound mystery in the ancient cultures of the American southwest. PEER REVIEWS: “The argument and empirical data are very compelling and makes an important contribution to our understanding of Chacoan architecture." Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Capt. NOAA Ret. Former Deputy Director, National Geodetic Survey “The study by Charly Gullett regarding mathematical applications of both Chacoan and subsequent great house architectural layouts and engineering brings important new perspectives to our understanding of the peoples who constructed large sites. This research deserves to be included in the reading list of all who wish to further understand the works and culture of native communities of the prehistoric Southwest.” Tom Windes, Chaco Scholar and Adjunct Archaeologist, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque "Gullett’s work is intriguing, elegantly argued and establishes a Rubicon in archaeological research." Miles Gilbert, Archaeologist Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA St. Michaels, AZ “Research points to the notion that some form of mathematics was used prehistorically...a good read.” Lloyd Masayumptewa, Superintendent Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, AZ "The sample size is compelling and virtually incontrovertible." Oliver T. Gilbert, Mathematics Professor Mesa Community College, Mesa AZ.

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Gullett was originally trained by the US Army Defense Information School in 1971. He spent most of his career as an engineer specializing in highly technical disciplines which included robotics, automotive and motor control instrumentation, military applications and analog computer design. Retiring in 1996 as a Senior Technical Author for the Microcontroller Division, he had been awarded Intel’s highest, most prestigious individual achievement award for his ground-breaking engineering in the field of artificial intelligence. He is the publisher and principal author at Warfield Press and is the current expert on Ancestral Puebloan fractal geometry.

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• Verlag: Warfield Press, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0985600381
• ISBN 13: 9780985600389
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 206