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Author : Paul Reed
Release : 2004-09-30
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Puebloan Society of Chaco Canyon by : Paul Reed
Download or read book The Puebloan Society of Chaco Canyon written by Paul Reed. This book was released on 2004-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glossary of terms, illustrations, maps, and recommended sources for further inquiry round out the volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Brian M. Fagan
Release : 2005
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Chaco Canyon by : Brian M. Fagan
Download or read book Chaco Canyon written by Brian M. Fagan. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, "Chaco Canyon" draws on the very latest research on Chaco and its environs to tell the remarkable story of the people of the canyon, from foraging bands and humble farmers to the elaborate society that flourished between the 10th and 12th centuries A.D.
Author : Stephen H. Lekson
Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon by : Stephen H. Lekson
Download or read book The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon written by Stephen H. Lekson. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The site of a great Ancestral Pueblo center in the 11th and 12th centuries AD, the ruins in Chaco Canyon look like a city to some archaeologists, a ceremonial center to others. Chaco and the people who created its monumental great houses, extensive roads, and network of outlying settlements remain an enigma in American archaeology. Two decades after the latest and largest program of field research at Chaco (the National Park Service's Chaco Project from 1971 to 1982) the original researchers and other leading Chaco scholars convened to evaluate what they now know about Chaco in light of new theories and new data. Those meetings culminated in an advanced seminar at the School of American Research, where the Chaco Project itself was born in 1968. In this capstone volume, the contributors address central archaeological themes, including environment, organization of production, architecture, regional issues, and society and polity. They place Chaco in its time and in its region, considering what came before and after its heyday and its neighbors to the north and south, including Mesoamerica.
Author : Jill E. Neitzel
Release : 2018-08-08
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Pueblo Bonito by : Jill E. Neitzel
Download or read book Pueblo Bonito written by Jill E. Neitzel. This book was released on 2018-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most famous ruin in New Mexico's Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Built by the ancestral Puebloan people some 1,000 years ago, the ruin testifies to one of the oldest and most complex societies ever discovered in North America. Study of the large corpus of data continues to generate new ideas about the people who lived their and their way of life. This extensively illustrated volume commemorates the recent centennial of the first large-scale excavations at Pueblo Bonito, with leading experts writing on various aspects of the site, including its setting, construction sequence and labor requirements, possible astronomical orientations and related rituals, and burials. The book probes deeply for answers to these and other perplexing questions about Pueblo Bonito and its people.
Author : John Martin Campbell
Release : 2007
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Great Houses of Chaco by : John Martin Campbell
Download or read book The Great Houses of Chaco written by John Martin Campbell. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaco Canyon, in far northwest New Mexico, was a major center of Puebloan culture between AD 900 and 1250. It is believed two thousand to six thousand people lived, annually, in about one hundred settlements scattered in and around the Canyon. The altitude (the canyon floor is sixty-two hundred feet above sea level) and the arid, desolate setting resulted in unique architecture and living styles. Puebloan masons used local sandstone and adobe mortar to build great houses consisting of fifty to seven hundred rooms. In The Great Houses of Chaco, Jack Campbell's elegant black and white photos explore the intricate structures that have come to define Chaco. David Stuart and Thomas Windes provide essays that place the photographs into historic contexts, and Katherine Kallestad has written captions that explain the images themselves. Together, they detail Chacoan culture and the magnificent ruins that are the primary source of our knowledge about the ancestral people of this region.
