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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
David Roberts helps us all to relive that magical moment in December 1888 when two Colorado ranchers, Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason wandered into Mesa Verde and discovered Cliff Palace, still the largest cliff dwelling ever found in the United States.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Most people are familiar with the famous Precolumbian civilizations of the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico, but few realize just how advanced were contemporary cultures in the American Southwest. Here lie some of the most remarkable monuments of America's prehistoric past, such as Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. Visitors marvel at the impressive ruined pueblos and spectacular cliff dwellings, but often have little idea of the cultures that produced these...
Author
Publisher
School for Advanced Research Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
The University of Utah Press
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...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. Aerial and ground photographs, more than 325 in color, and sixty settlement plans provide an armchair trip to ruins that are open to the public and that may be visited or viewed from nearby. Included, too, are the living...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Prehistory in Peril is the first accurate account of the early period of archaeological study of the Durango area. The area, still rife with unexplored sites, drew many self-trained amateurs and pothunters. As more and more historically significant artifacts were found, bitter confrontation and animosity developed between professionals and enthusiasts. Prehistory in Peril follows this fascinating drama and reevaluates data from two prominent archaeologists...
Author
Publisher
Johnson Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Since the last edition of "Guide to Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest" in 1993, there has been a steady growth in the knowledge of astronomy practiced by the Ancestral Pueblo. Predictions that had been made in the last edition have been verified in the many annual returns of the solstice sun and, after 18.6 years, the return of the major standstill moon. New work in archaeology has been published on Chimney Rock, Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Yellow...
Publisher
School for Advanced Research Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"How did Southwestern peoples subsist in the arid reaches of the Great Basin? When and why did violence erupt in the Mesa Verde region? Who were the Fremont people? How do some Hopis view Chaco Canyon? These are a few of the topics addressed in Living the Ancient Southwest. The essayists in this new highly-illustrated anthology also write about the beauty and originality of Mimbres pottery, the rock art in Canyon de Chelly, the history of the Wupatki...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Draws on oral traditions, archival accounts, and archaeological research to investigate the 1700 slaughter of the Hopi community of Awat'ovi by their kinsmen, examining theories about their welcome of Franciscan missionaries, sorcery practices, politicalcrises, and beliefs about ritual bloodshed.
Publisher
National Park Service
Pub. Date
[?]
Language
English
Description
From the time of Christ, the Ancestral Puebloans lived in the Four Corners Country and then they moved on. What they left behind are massive stone cities crouched low on mesa tops, nestled in natural caves and along shear canyon walls. These are some of the oldest, largest and most beautiful prehistoric ruins in North America.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"This book tells the stories of the excavation, restoration, and in some cases, destruction of some of the most interesting archaeology sites in the Southwest. The five sites discussed all contain Kiva wall paintings made by the prehistoric peoples of the Colorado Plateau.
Lister delineates the archaeological methodology and provides narrative history as she describes work done at Lowry Ruin (Colorado), Gran Quivira (New Mexico), Kuaua (New Mexico),...
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