Updated with the latest archaeological and anthropological evidence, "People of Chaco" is an essential book on the Chaco culture and ruins of northwestern New Mexico. Maps & photos.
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The intermittent Chaco Wash has cut a broad canyon through northwestern New Mexico. Its natural beauty is surpassed only by the many prehistoric ruins it contains, which were built by the Chacoan Anasazi, the ancestors of the modern Pueblo Indians. About 1000 years ago, the Chacoans constructed multistory residences, established an extensive road system, exercised cultural hegemony over a large region in the southwestern United States, and then suddenly left. Frazier skillfully recounts the fascinating story of Chaco Canyon. He describes its discovery and exploration, its role in the development of American archaeology, and the clues it contains about a unique cultural system. This thorough, balanced, and engrossing work is a delight for all students of the prehistoric Southwest. Gordon C. Tucker, Jr., Nickens and Assocs., Montrose, Col.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Kendrick Frazier has combined scientific and ethnographic data with Native American oral history to develop a concise account of this national monument.
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By-the-fireside archaeology at its best. (Paul Craig - Sacramento Bee ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
(Los Angeles Times Book Review )
By-the-fireside archaeology at its best. (Paul Craig - Sacramento Bee ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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Pleasantly educational despite the editorial shortcomings,
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This review is from: People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture, Updated and Expanded Edition (Paperback)
For anyone interested in Chaco and the whole Chaco Phenomenon, this is a very readable place to start -- lots of good, basic information, and the addition of the last chapter updating what came before is particularly worthwhile. The only negative is easily overlooked because of the subject, but the editorial staff should be drawn and quartered for letting a reissue hit the presses with ANY grammatical and/or typo errors -- shame on them, but good for Frazier for updating his book (and his readers) on what's new re Chaco.
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Diggers versus Inhabitants,
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This review is from: People of Chaco: A Canyon and Its Culture, Updated and Expanded Edition (Paperback)
The "People of Chaco" is about the people (white man) who found the ruins, and the subsequent history of people who excavated, catalogued, and estalished the archeology. It is more about the history of the establishment of protection policies than of the people who lived here, built here, died here, socialized here...and their migration into other clans and tribes of the southwest, when the Chaco culture started to fail. This book was published in the mid-late '80's, and it is interesting to note that there have been a lot of turnarounds in thoughts, attitudes, and deductions in later published books. Later books, however, are almost too stiff, in their efforts to be more "politically correct" in their verbage and descriptions. Also, lots has happened since 1989.
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For anyone interested in Chaco--or in 'Anasazi' culture in general--this is a great read. It is highly accessible to the lay reader, compiling the current theories, arguments and evidence in a way that is quite enjoyable. The overview of the historical development of research in the region is excellent. A 'must' for anyone interested in southwestern archaeology.
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At seven in the morning of August 26, 1849, an expedition of 500 U.S. Army troops and Indian guides out of Fort Marcy in Santa Fe, New Mexico, broke camp along Torreon Arroyo and headed northwest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prehistoric roads, tower kiva, roadway network, great kiva, great pueblos, southwestern archaeology, outlying sites, large pueblos, roadway system, modern pueblos, canyon itself, parallel segments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chaco Canyon, Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl, San Juan, New Mexico, Chaco Center, Pueblo Alto, Pueblo del Arroyo, North Road, Chaco Project, Pueblo Pintado, Mesa Verde, Penasco Blanco, National Park Service, Fajada Butte, Kin Ya'a, Casa Rinconada, Chaco Phenomenon, Neil Judd, Richard Wetherill, Steve Lekson, Tom Windes, Una Vida, Kin Kletso, National Geographic Society New!
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At seven in the morning of August 26, 1849, an expedition of 500 U.S. Army troops and Indian guides out of Fort Marcy in Santa Fe, New Mexico, broke camp along Torreon Arroyo and headed northwest. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prehistoric roads, tower kiva, roadway network, great kiva, great pueblos, southwestern archaeology, outlying sites, large pueblos, roadway system, modern pueblos, canyon itself, parallel segments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chaco Canyon, Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl, San Juan, New Mexico, Chaco Center, Pueblo Alto, Pueblo del Arroyo, North Road, Chaco Project, Pueblo Pintado, Mesa Verde, Penasco Blanco, National Park Service, Fajada Butte, Kin Ya'a, Casa Rinconada, Chaco Phenomenon, Neil Judd, Richard Wetherill, Steve Lekson, Tom Windes, Una Vida, Kin Kletso, National Geographic Society New!
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- New Mexico (America the Beautiful) by R. Conrad Stein on 4 pages
- Anasazi Regional Organization and the Chaco System (Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona) by David E. Doyel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ancient Life in the American Southwest by Edgar L. Hewett on page 67, and Back Matter
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