The Pueblo Bonito Mounds Of Chaco Canyon

Author : Patricia L. Crown
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826356512

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The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon by Patricia L. Crown Pdf

Chaco Canyon has one of the most significant concentrations of archaeological remains in North America. Pueblo Bonito, the largest and best known of Chaco’s great houses, was largely excavated in the late 1890s and early 1920s, but then no extensive excavations were conducted at the site until a team of archaeologists from the University of New Mexico began work there in 2004. In exploring the possible evidence of water-control features, archaeologists recovered some 200,000 artifacts. Here they use the artifacts and fauna they found to examine the lives and activities of the inhabitants of Pueblo Bonito as well as to further interpret current models of Chaco archaeology. The contributors particularly focus on questions regarding crafts production, long-distance exchange relationships, and evidence for feasting and other ritual behavior. The results from the 2004–2008 excavations challenge many interpretations related to the daily activities of the Pueblo Bonito population while supporting others.

Author : Patricia L. Crown
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9780826361776

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The House of the Cylinder Jars by Patricia L. Crown Pdf

The House of the Cylinder Jars documents the re-excavation of Room 28, and places it within the context of other rooms at Pueblo Bonito, and describes the ritual termination by fire of the materials stored in the room.

Author : Patricia L. Crown
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Animal remains (Archaeology)
ISBN : 9780826356505

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The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon by Patricia L. Crown Pdf

Archaeologists use the artifacts and fauna they found to examine the lives and activities of the inhabitants of Pueblo Bonito as well as to further interpret current models of Chaco archaeology.

Author : Jill E. Neitzel
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781588345547

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Pueblo Bonito by Jill E. Neitzel Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen H. Lekson
Publisher : School for Advanced Research Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064698437

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The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon by Stephen H. Lekson Pdf

The site of a great Ancestral Pueblo center in the 11th and 12th centuries AD, the ruins in Chaco Canyon look like a city to some archaeologists, a ceremonial center to others. Chaco and the people who created its monumental great houses, extensive roads, and network of outlying settlements remain an enigma in American archaeology. Two decades after the latest and largest program of field research at Chaco (the National Park Service's Chaco Project from 1971 to 1982) the original researchers and other leading Chaco scholars convened to evaluate what they now know about Chaco in light of new theories and new data. Those meetings culminated in an advanced seminar at the School of American Research, where the Chaco Project itself was born in 1968. In this capstone volume, the contributors address central archaeological themes, including environment, organization of production, architecture, regional issues, and society and polity. They place Chaco in its time and in its region, considering what came before and after its heyday and its neighbors to the north and south, including Mesoamerica.

Author : John Martin Campbell
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826342485

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The Great Houses of Chaco by John Martin Campbell Pdf

Chaco Canyon, in far northwest New Mexico, was a major center of Puebloan culture between AD 900 and 1250. It is believed two thousand to six thousand people lived, annually, in about one hundred settlements scattered in and around the Canyon. The altitude (the canyon floor is sixty-two hundred feet above sea level) and the arid, desolate setting resulted in unique architecture and living styles. Puebloan masons used local sandstone and adobe mortar to build great houses consisting of fifty to seven hundred rooms. In The Great Houses of Chaco, Jack Campbell's elegant black and white photos explore the intricate structures that have come to define Chaco. David Stuart and Thomas Windes provide essays that place the photographs into historic contexts, and Katherine Kallestad has written captions that explain the images themselves. Together, they detail Chacoan culture and the magnificent ruins that are the primary source of our knowledge about the ancestral people of this region.

Author : Harold Sterling Gladwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Ancestral Pueblo culture
ISBN : UCSC:32106009427466

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The Chaco Branch Excavations at White Mound and in the Red Mesa Valley by Harold Sterling Gladwin Pdf

Author : Neil Merton Judd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004944405

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The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito by Neil Merton Judd Pdf

Author : Catherine M. Cameron
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816526818

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Chaco and After in the Northern San Juan by Catherine M. Cameron Pdf

Chaco Canyon, the great Ancestral Pueblo site of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, remains a central problem of Southwestern archaeology. Chaco, with its monumental Ògreat houses,Ó was the center of a vast region marked by ÒoutlierÓ great houses. The canyon itself has been investigated for over a century, but only a few of the more than 200 outlier great housesÑkey to understanding Chaco and its timesÑhave been excavated. This volume explores the Chaco and post-Chaco eras in the northern San Juan area through extensive excavations at the Bluff Great House, a major Chaco ÒoutlierÓ in Utah. BluffÕs massive great house, great kiva, and earthen berms are described and compared to other great houses in the northern Chaco region. Those assessments support intriguing new ideas about the Chaco region and the effect of the collapse of Chaco Canyon on ÒoutlyingÓ great houses. New insights from the Bluff Great House clarify the construction and use of great houses during the Chaco era and trace the history of great houses in the generations after ChacoÕs decline. An innovative comparative study of the northern and southern portions of the Chaco world (the northern San Juan area around Bluff and the Cibola area around Zuni) leads to new ideas about population aggregation and regional abandonment in the Southwest. Appendixes on CD-ROM present details and descriptions of artifacts recovered from Bluff: ceramics, projectile points, pollen analyses, faunal remains, bone tools, ornaments, and more. This book is one of only a handful of reports on Chacoan great houses in the northern San Juan region. It provides an in-depth study of the Chaco era and clarifies the relationship of ÒoutlyingÓ great houses to Chaco Canyon. Research at the Bluff Great House begins to answer key questions about the nature of Chaco and its region, and the history of the northern San Juan in the Chaco and post-Chaco worlds.

Author : Edgar Lee Hewett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015003691956

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The Chaco Canyon and Its Monuments by Edgar Lee Hewett Pdf

Author : Stephen H Lekson
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780874809480

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The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico by Stephen H Lekson Pdf

A fresh volume on the ancient structures of Chaco Canyon, built by native peoples between AD 850 and 1130, that unifies older information on the area with new advanced research techniques focusing on studies of technology and building types, analyses of architectural change, and readings of the built environment, aided by over 150 maps, floor plans, elevations and photos.

Author : Nancy J. Akins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
ISBN : PURD:32754061618280

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A Biocultural Approach to Human Burials from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico by Nancy J. Akins Pdf

Author : Steadman Upham,Kent G Lightfoot,Roberta A. Jewett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000305555

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The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies by Steadman Upham,Kent G Lightfoot,Roberta A. Jewett Pdf

This book examines current archaeological approaches for studying the organizational structure of prehistoric societies in the American Southwest. It presents the historical background of the divergent theoretical models that have been used to interpret Southwestern socio-political organizations.

Author : Ruth M. Van Dyke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015076168858

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The Chaco Experience by Ruth M. Van Dyke Pdf

In a remote canyon in northwest New Mexico, thousand-year-old sandstone walls waver in the sunlight, stretching like ancient vertebrae against a turquoise sky. This storied place--Chaco Canyon--carries multiple layers of meaning for Native Americans and archaeologists, writers and tourists, explorers and artists. Here, isolation, the arid climate, and dry-laid construction have preserved ruins that are monuments to prehistoric creativity and perseverance. Chaco Canyon draws its power not only from the ancient architecture sheltering beneath its walls, but from the ever-changing light and the far-flung vistas of the Colorado Plateau. Light and shadow, stone and sky come together in the canyon. At the heart of this sky-filled landscape lie twelve massive great houses. The Chacoan landscape, with its formally constructed, carefully situated architectural features, is charged with symbolism. In this volume, Ruth Van Dyke analyzes the meanings and experience of moving through this landscape to illuminate Chacoan beliefs and social relationships.

Author : Robert Hill Lister,Florence Cline Lister
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0826307566

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Chaco Canyon by Robert Hill Lister,Florence Cline Lister Pdf

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.