Chaco Revisited
New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Published on 9. April 2015
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-0-8165-3160-8 (ISBN)
Description
Chaco Canyon, the great Ancestral Pueblo site of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, has inspired excavations and research for more than one hundred years. Chaco Revisited brings together an A-team of Chaco scholars to provide an updated, refreshing analysis of over a century of scholarship.
In each of the twelve chapters, luminaries from the field of archaeology and anthropology such as R. Gwinn Vivian, Peter Whiteley, and Paul E. Minnis address some of the most fundamental question surrounding Chaco, from agriculture and craft production, to social organization and skeletal analyses. Though varied in their key questions about Chaco, each author uses previous research or new studies to ultimately blaze a trail for future research and discoveries about the canyon.
Written by both up-and-coming and well-seasoned scholars of Chaco Canyon, Chaco Revisited provides readers with a perspective that is both varied and balanced. Though a singular theory for the Chaco Canyon phenomenon is yet to be reached, Chaco Revisited brings a new understanding to scholars: that Chaco was perhaps even more productive and socially complex than previous analyses would suggest.
In each of the twelve chapters, luminaries from the field of archaeology and anthropology such as R. Gwinn Vivian, Peter Whiteley, and Paul E. Minnis address some of the most fundamental question surrounding Chaco, from agriculture and craft production, to social organization and skeletal analyses. Though varied in their key questions about Chaco, each author uses previous research or new studies to ultimately blaze a trail for future research and discoveries about the canyon.
Written by both up-and-coming and well-seasoned scholars of Chaco Canyon, Chaco Revisited provides readers with a perspective that is both varied and balanced. Though a singular theory for the Chaco Canyon phenomenon is yet to be reached, Chaco Revisited brings a new understanding to scholars: that Chaco was perhaps even more productive and socially complex than previous analyses would suggest.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Tucson
United States
Illustrations
46 figures, 21 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8165-3160-8 (9780816531608)
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Persons
Carrie C. Heitman is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA as well as co-director for the Chaco Research Archive. Her research appears in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the American Southwest, The Durable House, and A Catalyst for Ideas.
Stephen Plog is the David Harrison Professor of Archaeology at the University of Virginia, USA. He has authored or edited four volumes, including Ancient People of the American Southwest and Spatial Organization and Exchange.
Stephen Plog is the David Harrison Professor of Archaeology at the University of Virginia, USA. He has authored or edited four volumes, including Ancient People of the American Southwest and Spatial Organization and Exchange.