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Author: David Elmond Doyel
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis updated version includes a chapter "Chaco Update 2000" which addresses research on Chaco settlements since the original publication of this volume in 1992.
Author: Lynne Sebastian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-08-28
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780521574686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines political evolution and archaeological data, producing a sociopolitical model of the rise, florescence, and decline of the Chaco Phenomenon.
Author: John R. Roney
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David E. Stuart
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2000-05-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0826318029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. A vast and powerful alliance of thousands of farming hamlets and nearly 100 spectacular towns integrated the region through economic and religious ties, and the whole system was interconnected with hundreds of miles of roads. It took these Anasazi farmers more than seven centuries to lay the agricultural, organizational, and technological groundwork for the creation of classic Chacoan civilization, which lasted about 200 years--only to collapse spectacularly in a mere 40. Why did such a great society collapse? Who survived? Why? In this lively book anthropologist/archaeologist David Stuart presents answers to these questions that offer useful lessons to modern societies. His account of the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi brings to life the people known to us today as the architects of Chaco Canyon, the spectacular national park in New Mexico that thousands of tourists visit every year.
Author: David E. Stuart
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0826354785
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid E. Stuart incorporates extensive new research findings through groundbreaking archaeology to explore the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi and how it parallels patterns throughout modern societies in this new edition.
Author: Robert P. Powers
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 462
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen H. Lekson
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 580
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: William James Judge
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Grant Noble
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStartling discoveries and impassioned debates have emerged from the "Chaco Phenomenon" since the publication of New Light on Chaco Canyon twenty years ago. This completely updated edition features seventeen original essays, scores of photographs, maps, and site plans, and the perspectives of archaeologists, historians, and Native American thinkers. Key topics include the rise of early great houses; the structure of agricultural life among the people of Chaco Canyon; their use of sacred geography and astronomy in organizing their spiritual cosmology; indigenous knowledge about Chaco from the perspective of Hopi, Tewa, and Navajo peoples; and the place of Chaco in the wider world of archaeology. For more than a century archaeologists and others have pursued Chaco Canyon's many and elusive meanings. In Search of Chaco brings these explorations to a new generation of enthusiasts.
Author: David E. Stuart
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt took these Anasazi farmers more than seven centuries to create classic Chacoan civilization, which lasted some 200 years - only to collapse spectacularly in a mere 40.".
