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Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place Paperback – May 1, 2000
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At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. A vast and powerful alliance of thousands of farming hamlets and nearly 100 spectacular towns integrated the region through economic and religious ties, and the whole system was interconnected with hundreds of miles of roads. It took these Anasazi farmers more than seven centuries to lay the agricultural, organizational, and technological groundwork for the creation of classic Chacoan civilization, which lasted about 200 years--only to collapse spectacularly in a mere 40.
Why did such a great society collapse? Who survived? Why? In this lively book anthropologist/archaeologist David Stuart presents answers to these questions that offer useful lessons to modern societies. His account of the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi brings to life the people known to us today as the architects of Chaco Canyon, the spectacular national park in New Mexico that thousands of tourists visit every year.
- Print length264 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
- Publication dateMay 1, 2000
- Dimensions5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100826321798
- ISBN-13978-0826321794
- Lexile measure1460
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Anasazi America draws a fascinating dichotomy between modern pueblos and modern America, which has failed to learn history s lessons. --American Archaeology
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- Publisher : University of New Mexico Press; Third Printing edition (May 1, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 264 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0826321798
- ISBN-13 : 978-0826321794
- Lexile measure : 1460
- Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #613,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It is worth it if you are into the Southwest Indians
1) The history is presented in such an objective way, that I wished all history was written in this manner.
2) He presents the information so thoroughly that I never once doubt his authority on the subject.
3) Aside from the presentation of history in Anasazi America, the way he links the history to modern American society is very effective in allowing you to connect the fall of this civilization with some of the warning signs present in our own life.
I just want to add that the description on the function of their religion post-collapse was probably the part that has stuck with me the most, and not for any religious reasons.
I'm carrying this book with me on my next visit to New Mexico so I can find some of the more obscure sites.






