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High on Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains is yet another form of a solar calendar built by the Anasazi’s northern Indian neighbors, an elaborate pattern traced out in stone on a plateau near the top of a 10,000 foot mountain. Unlike1 the cliff-dwelling Anasazi. the Indians of the plains, who built the 28-spoke Bighorn Medicine Wheel over 2,000 years ago, left no other traces of their civilization.
The rock formation they did leave behind, however, marks the rising and setting sun during solstice time and apparently was used to record time in a 28-day period. Rock piles, or cairns, unevenly spaced around the medicine wheel’s rim, also indicate the rising points of three bright stars:
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