Chaco Revisited : New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico / edited by Carrie C. Heitman and Stephen Plog.

"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. I...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Plog, Stephen (Editor), Heitman, Carrie C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
Series:Amerind studies in anthropology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Understanding Chaco: Past, Present, and Future
  • Stephen Plog; 2. Reevaluating and Modeling Agricultural Potential in the Chaco Core
  • R. Gwinn Vivian and Adam S. Watson; 3. The Relevance of Maize Pollen for Assessing the Extent of Maize Production in Chaco Canyon
  • Phil R. Geib and Carrie C. Heitman; 4. A Perishable Perspective on Chacoan Social Identities
  • Edward A. Jolie and Laurie D. Webster; 5. Bones as Raw Material: Temporal Trends and Spatial Variability in the Chacoan Bone Tool Industry
  • Adam S. Watson.
  • 6. Human Burials of Chaco Canyon: New Developments in Cultural Interpretations through Skeletal Analysis
  • Kerriann Marden7. A Biological Perspective on Chacoan Identity
  • Meradeth Snow and Steven A. LeBlanc; 8. The House of Our Ancestors: New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, A.D. 800â€?1200
  • Carrie C. Heitman; 9. Unpacking the House: Ritual Practice and Social Networks at Chaco
  • Barbara J. Mills; 10. Chacoan Kinship
  • Peter Whiteley; 11. Looking North toward Chaco with Awe and Envy ... Mostly
  • Paul E. Minnis.
  • 12. Chaco: The View from Downstream
  • Kelley Hays-Gilpin and John WareEditors and Contributors; Index.