Anasazi America

Anasazi America

Author: David E. Stuart

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0826321798

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At 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.


In Search of the Old Ones

In Search of the Old Ones

Author: David Roberts

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-05-11

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1439127239

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An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi. David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo—who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than a century, trying to determine the environmental and cultural stresses that caused their society to collapse 700 years ago. He guides us through controversies in the historical record, among them the haunting question of whether the Anasazi committed acts of cannibalism. Roberts’s book is full of up-to-date thinking on the culture of the ancient people who lived in the harsh desert country of the Southwest.


Richard Wetherill

Richard Wetherill

Author: Frank McNitt

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780826303295

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Biography of the man who discovered the prehistoric ruins at Mesa Verde, Colorado, and began the excavation of Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.


The Anasazi

The Anasazi

Author: Eleanor H. Ayer

Publisher: Walker & Company

Published: 1992-12-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780802781857

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Examines what is known about the Anasazi civilization, from the arrival of the Ancient Ones in North America 14,000 years ago to the lives of their present-day descendants, the Pueblo.


Old Ones

Old Ones

Author: Brian Freeman

Publisher:

Published: 1986-06

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780937871300

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Anasazi Architecture and American Design

Anasazi Architecture and American Design

Author: Baker H. Morrow

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780826317797

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Take a fascinating journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. Twenty-two essays identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, history, mythology, and ecology. 40 halftones. 5 maps.


Stories and Stone

Stories and Stone

Author: Reuben J. Ellis

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780816523665

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Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Mesa Verde, Hovenweep . . . For many, such historic places evoke images of stone ruins, cliff dwellings, pot shards, and petroglyphs. For others, they recall ancestry. Remnants of the American Southwest's ancestral Puebloan peoples (sometimes known as Anasazi) have mystified and tantalized explorers, settlers, archaeologists, artists, and other visitors for centuries. And for a select group of writers, these ancient inhabitants have been a profound source of inspiration. Collected here are more than fifty selections from a striking body of literature about the prehistoric Southwest: essays, stories, travelers' reports, and poems spanning more than four centuries of visitation. They include timeless writings such as John Wesley Powell's The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Tributaries and Frank Hamilton Cushing's "Life at Zuni," plus contemporary classics ranging from Colin Fletcher's The Man Who Walked Through Time to Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian to Edward Abbey's "The Great American Desert." Reuben Ellis's introduction brings contemporary insight and continuity to the collection, and a section on "reading in place" invites readers to experience these great works amidst the landscapes that inspired them. For anyone who loves to roam ancient lands steeped in mystery, Stories and Stone is an incomparable companion that will enhance their enjoyment.


The Visitant

The Visitant

Author: Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-06-15

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780812540338

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A woman runs away in search of a Spiritual Helper, never to return.


Anasazi

Anasazi

Author: Leonard Everett Fisher

Publisher: Atheneum Books

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13:

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Describes the day-to-day life of the Anasazi Indians.


Treading in the Past

Treading in the Past

Author: Utah Museum of Natural History

Publisher: University of Utah Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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A catalogue and companion to an exhibit at the Utah Museum of Natural History, displaying woven sandals of the people who lived in what is now Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico for about the first 13 centuries of the current era. The examples demonstrate the various and intricate weaving techniques and the incredible diversity of styles, patterns, and decoration the weavers managed within the parameters of function. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR