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4) Pueblo
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
1460L
Language
English
Description
"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. Developed over the course of centuries and thriving for over two hundred years, the Chacoans' society collapsed dramatically in the twelfth century in a mere forty years. David E. Stuart incorporates extensive new research findings through groundbreaking archaeology to explore...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this return to his lively, provocative reconceptualization of the meaning of Chaco Canyon and its monumental 11th-century structures, Stephen H. Lekson expands—over time and distance—our understanding of the political and economic integration of the American Southwest.
Lekson's argument that Chaco did not stand alone, but rather was the first of three capitals in a vast networked region incorporating most of the Pueblo world has...
Lekson's argument that Chaco did not stand alone, but rather was the first of three capitals in a vast networked region incorporating most of the Pueblo world has...
11) Revolt: an archaeological history of Pueblo resistance and revitalization in 17th century New Mexico
Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In this volume Steve Lekson argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, he advocates an entirely new approach, one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking. Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco Canyon, the book provides a historical analysis of how Southwest archaeology confined...
18) Chaco Canyon
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.