Explaining the Relationship Between Prehistoric Agriculture and Environment at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Author : G-Young Gang
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : G-Young Gang
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Page : 330 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Carrie C. Heitman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081650234X
Chaco Canyon, the great Ancestral Pueblo site of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, has inspired excavations and research for more than one hundred years. Chaco Revisited brings together an A-team of Chaco scholars to provide an updated, refreshing analysis of over a century of scholarship. In each of the twelve chapters, luminaries from the field of archaeology and anthropology, such as R. Gwinn Vivian, Peter Whiteley, and Paul E. Minnis, address some of the most fundamental questions surrounding Chaco, from agriculture and craft production, to social organization and skeletal analyses. Though varied in their key questions about Chaco, each author uses previous research or new studies to ultimately blaze a trail for future research and discoveries about the canyon. Written by both up-and-coming and well-seasoned scholars of Chaco Canyon, Chaco Revisited provides readers with a perspective that is both varied and balanced. Though a singular theory for the Chaco Canyon phenomenon is yet to be reached, Chaco Revisited brings a new understanding to scholars: that Chaco was perhaps even more productive and socially complex than previous analyses would suggest.
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Page : 518 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
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Author : Lynne Sebastian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521574686
This study examines political evolution and archaeological data, producing a sociopolitical model of the rise, florescence, and decline of the Chaco Phenomenon.
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Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Chaco Canyon Region (N.M.)
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Author : Joseph A. Tainter
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0429972210
This book explores how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and offers important new perspectives on evolution of culture. It discusses the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress.
Author : Ruth M. Van Dyke
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1646421701
Since the mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate potential conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. The Greater Chaco Landscape examines both the imminent threat posed by energy extraction and new ways of understanding Chaco Canyon and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities from southeast Utah to west-central New Mexico in the context of landscape archaeology. Contributors analyze many different dimensions of the Chacoan landscape and present the most effective, innovative, and respectful means of studying them, focusing on the significance of thousand-year-old farming practices; connections between early great houses outside the canyon and the rise of power inside it; changes to Chaco’s roads over time as observed in aerial imagery; rock art throughout the greater Chaco area; respectful methods of examining shrines, crescents, herraduras, stone circles, cairns, and other landscape features in collaboration with Indigenous colleagues; sensory experiences of ancient Chacoans via study of the sightlines and soundscapes of several outlier communities; and current legal, technical, and administrative challenges and options concerning preservation of the landscape. An unusually innovative and timely volume that will be available both in print and online, with the online edition incorporating video chapters presented by Acoma, Diné, Zuni, and Hopi cultural experts filmed on location in Chaco Canyon, The Greater Chaco Landscape is a creative collaboration with Native voices that will be a case study for archaeologists and others working on heritage management issues across the globe. It will be of interest to archaeologists specializing in Chaco and the Southwest, interested in remote sensing and geophysical landscape-level investigations, and working on landscape preservation and phenomenological investigations such as viewscapes and soundscapes. Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky, G. B. Cornucopia, Timothy de Smet, Sean Field, Richard A. Friedman, Dennis Gilpin, Presley Haskie, Tristan Joe, Stephen H. Lekson, Thomas Lincoln, Michael P. Marshall, Terrance Outah, Georgiana Pongyesva, Curtis Quam, Paul F. Reed, Octavius Seowtewa, Anna Sofaer, Julian Thomas, William B. Tsosie Jr., Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Ernest M. Vallo Jr., Carla R. Van West, Ronald Wadsworth, Robert S. Weiner, Thomas C. Windes, Denise Yazzie, Eurick Yazzie
Author : William James Judge
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
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Author : Kirk Bryan
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Science
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Author : Reginald Gilbert Fisher
Publisher : Millefleurs
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
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