The Chaco Handbook

The Chaco Handbook

Author: R. Gwinn Vivian

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874807059

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An encyclopedia presents information on the site of prehistoric habitation in northwestern New Mexico, accompanied by a history of Chaco, an account of exploration and investigation, and an annotated bibliography.


Chaco Canyon

Chaco Canyon

Author: Robert Hill Lister

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780826307569

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The first complete account of Chacoan archaeology, from the discovery of the ruins by Spanish soldiers in the seventeenth century, through the scientific analyses of the 1970s.


In Search of Chaco

In Search of Chaco

Author: David Grant Noble

Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13:

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Startling 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.


Pueblo Bonito

Pueblo Bonito

Author: Jill E. Neitzel

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2018-08-08

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1588345548

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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.


Chaco Canyon

Chaco Canyon

Author: Brian M. Fagan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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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.


Chaco Astronomy

Chaco Astronomy

Author: Anna Sofaer

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780943734460

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Chaco Astronomy: An Ancient American Cosmology contains the remarkable findings of the past three decades of scientific and cultural investigations into the astronomical practices of the ancestral Puebloans -- people who built massive expressions of a remarkable world-view in the American Southwest. Compiled by Anna Sofaer and her Solstice Project team of geographers, astronomers, archaeologists, and Native scholars, the book includes nine compelling and detailed chapters, with photographs, charts, diagrams, appendices.


Landscapes of Devils

Landscapes of Devils

Author: Gastón R. Gordillo

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2004-12-06

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 082238602X

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Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina’s Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinean army, incorporated into the seasonal labor force of distant sugar plantations, and proselytized by British Anglicans. Gastón R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba’s memory of these processes is embedded in their experience of “the bush” that dominates the Chaco landscape. As Gordillo explains, the bush is the result of social, cultural, and political processes that intertwine this place with other geographies. Labor exploitation, state violence, encroachment by settlers, and the demands of Anglican missionaries all transformed this land. The Toba’s lives have been torn between alienating work in sugar plantations and relative freedom in the bush, between moments of domination and autonomy, abundance and poverty, terror and healing. Part of this contradictory experience is culturally expressed in devils, evil spirits that acquire different features in different places. The devils are sources of death and disease in the plantations, but in the bush they are entities that connect with humans as providers of bush food and healing power. Enacted through memory, the experiences of the Toba have produced a tense and shifting geography. Combining extensive fieldwork conducted over a decade, historical research, and critical theory, Gordillo offers a nuanced analysis of the Toba’s social memory and a powerful argument that geographic places are not only objective entities but also the subjective outcome of historical forces.


Handbook of Archaeological Theories

Handbook of Archaeological Theories

Author: R. Alexander Bentley

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 0759100322

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This handbook, a companion to the authoritative Handbook of Archaeological Methods, gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists on all aspects of the latest thinking about archaeological theory. It is the definitive resource for understanding how to think about archaeology.