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Although less well known than the Mayans, the Anasazi, who flourished in the region now known as New Mexico, also vanished without a trace. Now, eight centuries after their thriving, 2,000-year-old civilization disappeared as though it had never existed, naturalist and adventurer Childs undertakes to find out where the Anasazi went and why. But discovering the fate of an entire race of people, 800 years after the fact, is not like tracking down a...
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"In northwestern New Mexico's Chaco Canyon lies a spectacular array of ruins. Like Stonehenge, they are both a monument to our prehistory and a cryptic puzzle. We know that in Chaco Canyon, one thousand years ago, there arose among the Pueblo people a great and culturally sophisticated civilization. But many questions remain: Just what function did Chaco Canyon fulfill? How great was its extent and influence? Why did its culture collapse?" "First...
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c2008
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Anna Sofaer found the now-famous "Sun Dagger" petroglyph site on a desert butte high above Chaco Culture National Historical Park at Summer Solstice in 1977, leading to 30 years research into the meaning of ancient Chaco's astronomical expressions. Chaco Astronomy brings together all the major findings of Solstice Project's many researchers, changing forever the understanding of a place often called "America's Stonehenge" Nine revealing chapters explore...
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1991
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Two of the Southwest's most sophisticated prehistoric cultures were those developed by the Hohokam, agricultural desert-dwellers of Southern Arizona, and the Chaco Canyon Anasazi, builders of the great pueblos of New Mexico. In recent years, the archaeological data base on these peoples has virtually exploded, and this book offers the first major synthesis of these new data. Eleven archaeologists present the most current thinking about the regional...
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2007
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"In this thoughtful and picturesque work, Jack Campbell explores in elegant black and while photographs the wonderfully intricate structures that have come to define Chaco Canyon. David Stuart and Thomas Windes provide essays helping place the photographs within their historic contexts, and Katherine Kallestad has written captions that explain the images themselves. Together, they produce a line work for park visitors who want to better understand...
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©1999
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Southwestern archaeologists have long pondered the meaning and importance of the monumental 11th century structures in Chaco Canyon. Now, Stephen Lekson offers a lively, provocative thesis which attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of Chaco and its importance to the understanding of the entire Southwest.
13) Chaco Canyon
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c2002.
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Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.