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Author : Frances Joan Mathien,Charlie R. Steen,Craig Daniel Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)
ISBN : UOM:39015029982009
Author : Sharon Snyder,Toni Michnovicz Gibson,Los Alamos Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1531656587
The story of Los Alamos and the Pajarito Plateau begins with explosive eruptions. An ancient volcano in northern New Mexico created the mountainous region known as the Jemez, and with time, erosion sculpted narrow mesas and canyons. The first residents were Native Americans. One of their many pueblos was called Tsirege, or the "bird place," from which the name Pajarito originates, meaning "little bird" in Spanish. Homesteaders arrived in the 1880s, but the area was sparsely settled. In 1917, former Rough Rider Ashley Pond started the exclusive Los Alamos Ranch School in the isolated setting, but in 1942 the US government took an interest in that isolation. They abruptly closed the school, and Los Alamos became a secret military post. There, under J. Robert Oppenheimer's leadership, the atomic bomb was created. Postwar housing shortages, Cold War threats, and disastrous fires have challenged Los Alamos, yet it has endured as a place of unique history and natural beauty.
Author : David E. Stuart
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826349125
This lively overview of the archaeology of northern New Mexico's Pajarito Plateau argues that Bandelier National Monument and the Pajarito Plateau became the Southwest's most densely populated and important upland ecological preserve when the great regional society centered on Chaco Canyon collapsed in the twelfth century. Some of Chaco's survivors moved southeast to the then thinly populated Pajarito Plateau, where they were able to survive by fundamentally refashioning their society. David E. Stuart, an anthropologist/archaeologist known for his stimulating overviews of prehistoric settlement and subsistence data, argues here that this re-creation of ancestral Puebloan society required a fundamental rebalancing of the Chacoan model. Where Chaco was based on growth, grandeur, and stratification, the socioeconomic structure of Bandelier was characterized by efficiency, moderation, and practicality. Although Stuart's focus is on the archaeology of Bandelier and the surrounding area, his attention to events that predate those sites by several centuries and at substantial distances from the modern monument is instructive. Beginning with Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers and ending with the large villages and great craftsmen of the mid-sixteenth century, Stuart presents Bandelier as a society that, in crisis, relearned from its pre-Chacoan predecessors how to survive through creative efficiencies. Illustrated with previously unpublished maps supported by the most recent survey data, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in southwestern archaeology.
Author : Sharon Snyder,Toni Michnovicz Gibson
Publisher : Imaginary Lines, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0738584835
The story of Los Alamos and the Pajarito Plateau begins with explosive eruptions. An ancient volcano in northern New Mexico created the mountainous region known as the Jemez, and with time, erosion sculpted narrow mesas and canyons. The first residents were Native Americans. One of their many pueblos was called Tsirege, or the "bird place," from which the name Pajarito originates, meaning "little bird" in Spanish. Homesteaders arrived in the 1880s, but the area was sparsely settled. In 1917, former Rough Rider Ashley Pond started the exclusive Los Alamos Ranch School in the isolated setting, but in 1942 the US government took an interest in that isolation. They abruptly closed the school, and Los Alamos became a secret military post. There, under J. Robert Oppenheimer's leadership, the atomic bomb was created. Postwar housing shortages, Cold War threats, and disastrous fires have challenged Los Alamos, yet it has endured as a place of unique history and natural beauty.
Author : Timothy A. Kohler
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0826330827
These essays summarize the results of new excavation and survey research at Bandelier National Monument, with special attention to determining why larger sites appear when and where they do, and how life in these later villages and towns differed from life in the earlier small hamlets that first dotted the Pajarito in the mid-1100s.
Author : Alfred V. Kidder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:354989574
Author : Alfred Vincent Kidder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Indian pottery
ISBN : UCR:31210000340768
Author : Edgar Lee Hewett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : PRNC:32101078162250
Author : Robert P. Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061187939
Few visitors to the stunning Frijoles Canyon at Bandelier National Monument realize that its depths embrace but a small part of the archaeological richness of the vast Pajarito Plateau west of Santa Fe, New Mexico. In this beautifully illustrated book, archaeologists, historians, ecologists, and Pueblo contributors tell a deep and sweeping story of the region. Beginning with its first Paleo-Indian residents, through its Ancestral Pueblo florescence in the 14th and 15th centuries, to its role in the birth of American archaeology and the nuclear age, and concluding with its enduring centrality in the lives of Keresan and Tewa Indian peoples today, the plateau remains a place where the mysterious interplay of human culture and magnificent landscapes is written in its mesas and canyons. A must read for anyone interested in Southwestern archaeology and Native peoples.
Author : Alfred Vincent Kidder
Publisher : Corinthian Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Indian pottery
ISBN : 0527005118
Author : James Clark Maxon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : WISC:89097323547
Author : Mark R. Hudson,V. J. S. Grauch
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813724942
"Extending from Colorado, USA, on the north to the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, on the south, the Rio Grande rift divides the Colorado Plateau on the west from the interior of the North American craton on the east. This volume focuses on the Rio Grande rift's upper crustal basins and is organized geographically with study areas progressing from north to south. Nineteen chapters cover a variety of topics, including sedimentation history, rift basin geometries and the influence of older structure on rift basin evolution, faulting and strain transfer within and among basins, relations of magmatism to rift tectonism, and basin hydrogeology"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Larry S. Crumpler,Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Geology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Robert Julyan
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0826316891
The indispensable traveler's guide to the history of places throughout the Land of Enchantment.
Author : Scott Ortman
Publisher : Anthropological Papers
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539314
Rio Grande pueblo societies took shape in the aftermath of significant turmoil and migration in the thirteenth century. In the centuries that followed, the size of Pueblo settlements, level of aggregation, degree of productive specialization, extent of interethnic exchange, and overall social harmony increased to unprecedented levels. Economists recognize scale, agglomeration, the division of labor, international trade, and control over violence as important determinants of socioeconomic development in the modern world. But is a development framework appropriate for understanding Rio Grande archaeology? What do we learn about contemporary Pueblo culture and its resiliency when Pueblo history is viewed through this lens? What does the exercise teach us about the determinants of economic growth more generally? The contributors in this volume argue that ideas from economics and complexity science, when suitably adapted, provide a compelling approach to the archaeological record. Contributors consider what we can learn about socioeconomic development through archaeology and explore how Pueblo culture and institutions supported improvements in the material conditions of life over time. They examine demographic patterns; the production and exchange of food, cotton textiles, pottery, and stone tools; and institutional structures reflected in village plans, rock art, and ritual artifacts that promoted peaceful exchange. They also document change through time in various economic measures and consider their implications for theories of socioeconomic development. The archaeological record of the Northern Rio Grande exhibits the hallmarks of economic development, but Pueblo economies were organized in radically different ways than modern industrialized and capitalist economies. This volume explores the patterns and determinants of economic development in pre-Hispanic Rio Grande Pueblo society, building a platform for more broadly informed research on this critical process.
