SEPTEMBER 5, 2012 Fractal Architecture at Prehistoric Chaco
Canyon The use of algebra and geometry as tools for designing
prehistoric, load-bearing architecture are the topic of Prescott
author Charly Gullett's presentation, Chaco Fractal
Architecture. This one hour talk will be held at the September
meeting of the Desert Foothills Chapter (DFC) of the Arizona
Archaeological Society (AAS), Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m.
at the Good Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church, 6502 E. Cave
Creek Road in Cave Creek. The presentation, based on Gullet's
recently released book, Chaco Fractal Architecture: Mathematics
and Metaphor at the Dawn of Prehistoric Science, is free and the
public is invited. Charly will demonstrate that the design and
engineering of the beautiful multi-story dwellings built 1000
years ago in Chaco, New Mexico used mathematic principles that
were not even scientifically mainstream until Benoit Mendelbrot
first coined the term "fractal" in the 1970's. The use of
fractals, or self-similar patte