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Author : Scott S. Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0153022531
Discusses some of the things archaeologists have learned about three major groups of Indians that lived in the American Southwest: the Anasazi, the Hohokam, and the Mogollon.
Author : Buddy Mays
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0877016968
The Four Corners region of the southwestern United States extends into portions of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Over time, it has been home to many different peoples. Contents in Seven Chapters: Clues to the Past, How Old Is It, Setting the Stage, The Anasazi, The Hohokam, The Mogollon, and Other Prehistoric Peoples. Includes Glossary, Introduction, Afterword, and National Parks and Monuments.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Hohokam culture
ISBN : OCLC:31819556
Discusses some of the things archaeologists have learned about three major groups of Indians that lived in the American Southwest: the Anasazi, the Hohokam, and the Mogollon.
Author : David Hatcher Childress
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781935487555
Popular Lost Cities author David Hatcher Childress takes to the road again in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries. This time he is off to the American Southwest, traversing the region’s deserts, mountains and forests investigating archeological mysteries and the unexplained. Join David as he starts in northern Mexico and searches for the lost mines of the Aztecs. He continues north to west Texas, delving into the mysteries of Big Bend, including mysterious Phoenician tablets discovered there and the strange lights of Marfa. He continues northward into New Mexico where he stumbles upon a hollow mountain with a billion dollars of gold bars hidden deep inside it! In Arizona he investigates tales of Egyptian catacombs in the Grand Canyon, cruises along the Devil’s Highway, and tackles the century-old mystery of the Superstition Mountains and the Lost Dutchman mine. In Nevada and California Childress checks out the rumors of mummified giants and weird tunnels in Death Valley, plus he searches the Mohave Desert for the mysterious remains of ancient dwellers alongside lakes that supposedly dried up tens of thousands of years ago. It’s a full-tilt blast down the back roads of the Southwest in search of the weird and wondrous mysteries of the past!
Author : Stephen H. Lekson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124167052
According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works would have us believe that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures. In this view, Chaco Canyon was a geopolitical reaction to the "Colonial Period" Hohokam expansion and the Hohokam "Classic Period" was the product of refugee Chacoan nobles, chased off the Colorado Plateau by angry farmers. Far to the south, Casas Grandes was a failed attempt to create a Mesoamerican state, and modern Pueblo people--with societies so different from those at Chaco and Casas Grandes--deliberately rejected these monumental, hierarchical episodes of their past. From the publisher: The second printing of A History of the Ancient Southwest has corrected the errors noted below. SAR Press regrets an error on Page 72, paragraph 4 (also Page 275, note 2) regarding "absolute dates." "50,000 dates" was incorrectly published as "half a million dates." Also P. 125, lines 13-14: "Between 21,000 and 27,000 people lived there" should read "Between 2,100 and 2,700 people lived there."
Author : Gene S. Stuart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173007410832
Examines ancient cities in the Americas, revealing how settlements evolved and how urban centers grew and functioned.
Author : Yibo Xu
Publisher : Altralinea Edizioni
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788894869644
The book is the first to define the meaning and components of the grid and apply it in Chinese planning history. It provides a fresh methodology, pushing the boundary of planning by this new practical tool for planners and governors and new perspective for the architecture and city planning faculties. From graphs to rules, from facts to in-depth analysis, this book focuses on the tool of urban planning, the grid, with thoughtful organization of knowledge from Chinese history, architecture and city planning discipline, providing knowledge along with politics, military, customs, mysterious Fengshui theories and astrology beliefs. Moreover, the book proved the link between grids and social aims, discussing each kind of aim by thoughtful organization of data collected from 301 prefecture cities, unfolding the powers propelling the city formation and shedding light on what shaped our cities today.
Author : Gary David
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781935487159
Ancient star lore exploring the mysterious location of Pueblos in the American Southwest, circa 1100 AD, that appear to be a mirror image of the major stars of the Orion constellation. Many readers are familiar with the correlation between the pyramids of Egypt and the stars of Orion. Beginning in 1100 A.D. on the Arizona desert, the Hopi constructed a similar pattern of villages that mirrors all the major stars in the constellation. "As Above, so Below." The Orion Zone explores this ground-sky relationship and its astounding global significance. Packed with diagrams, maps, astronomical charts, and photos of ruins and rock art, this useful guidebook decodes the ancient mysteries of the Pueblo Indian world.
Author : John Kantner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521788803
An introduction to the history of the Puebloan Southwest from the AD 1000s to the sixteenth century, first published in 2004.
Author : William M. Ferguson,Richard E. W. Adams
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0826328016
William Ferguson's classic photographic portrayal of the major pre-Columbian ruins of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras is now available from UNM Press in a completely revised edition. Magnificent aerial and ground photographs give both armchair and actual visitors unparalleled views of fifty-one ancient cities. The restored areas of each site and their interesting and exotic features are shown within each group of ruins. The authors have thoroughly revised the text for this new edition, and they have added over 30 new photographs and illustrations as well as a completely new chapter by Richard E. W. Adams on regional states and empires in ancient Mesoamerica. Over a span of three thousand years between 1500 B.C. and A.D. 1500 great civilizations, including the Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Toltec, Zapotec, and Aztec, flourished, waned, and died in Mesoamerica. These indigenous cultures of Mexico and Central America are brought to life in Mesoamerica's Ancient Cities through stunning color photographs. The authors include the most recent research and most widely accepted theoretical perspectives on Mesoamerican civilizations. Ideal for the general reader as well as scholars of Mesoamerica, this volume makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Americas.
Author : Edgar Lee Hewett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Southwest, New
ISBN : UOM:39015070477297
Author : Gregory McNamee,Larry Lindahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1933855886
Author : Andrew Creekmore,Kevin D. Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107046528
Investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in shaping urbanism.
Author : Todd W. Bostwick,Peter Krocek
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816521840
High above the noise and traffic of metropolitan Phoenix, Native American rock art offers mute testimony that another civilization once thrived in the Arizona desert. In the city's South Mountains, prehispanic peoples pecked thousands of images into the mountains' boulders and outcroppings—images that today's hikers can encounter with every bend in the trail. Todd Bostwick, an archaeologist who has studied the Hohokam for more than twenty years, and Peter Krocek, a professional photographer with a passion for archaeology, have combed the South Mountains to locate nearly all of the ancient petroglyphs found in the canyons and ridges. Their years of learning the landscape and investigating the ancient designs have resulted in a book that explores this wealth of prehistoric rock art within its natural and cultural contexts, revealing what these carvings might mean, how they got there, and when they were made. Landscape of the Spirits is the first book to cover these ancient images and is one of the most comprehensive treatments of a rock art location ever published. It conveys the range of different rock art elements and compositions found in the South Mountains—animals, humans, and geometric shapes, as well as celestial and calendrical markings at key sites—through accurate descriptions, drawings, and photographs. Interpretations of the petroglyphs are based on Native American ethnographic accounts and consider the most recent theories concerning shamanism and archaeoastronomy. Written in a simple and accessible style, Landscape of the Spirits is an indispensable volume for anyone exploring the South Mountains, and for rock art enthusiasts everywhere who wish to broaden their understanding of the prehistoric world. It is both an authoritative overview of these ancient wonders and an unprecedented benchmark in southwestern rock art research at a single geographic location.
Author : Edgar Lee Hewett
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : 0819602035