Chaco revisited : new research on the prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico / edited by Carrie C. Heitman and Stephen Plog.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heitman, Carrie C., editor.

Plog, Stephen, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Amerind studies in anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaco culture--New Mexico--Chaco Canyon.

Chaco culture.

Chaco Canyon (N.M.)--Antiquities.

Chaco Canyon (N.M.).

Antiquities.

New Mexico--Chaco Canyon.

Physical Description:

viii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

Summary:

"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 fields of archaeology and anthropology...address some of the most fundamental questions surrounding Chaco...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." -- Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Understanding Chaco : past, present, and future / Stephen Plog

Reevaluating and modeling agricultural potential in the Chaco core / R. Gwinn Vivian and Adam S. Watson

The relevance of maize pollen for assessing the extent of maize production in Chaco Canyon / Phil R. Geib and Carrie C. Heitman

A perishable perspective on Chacoan social identities / Edward A. Jolie and Laurie D. Webster

Bones as raw material : temporal trends and spatial variability in the Chacoan bone tool industry / Adam S. Watson

Human burials of Chaco Canyon : new developments in cultural interpretations through skeletal analysis / Kerriann Marden

A biological perspective on Chacoan identity / Meradeth Snow and Steven A. LeBlanc

The house of our ancestors : new research on the prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, A.D.800-1200 / Carrie C. Heitman

Unpacking the house : ritual practice and social networks at Chaco / Barbara J. Mills

Chacoan kinship / Peter Whiteley

Looking north toward Chaco with awe and envy... mostly / Paul E. Minnis

Chaco : the view from downstream / Kelley Hays-Gilpin and John Ware

Editors and contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780816531608

0816531609

OCLC:

900608914

Publisher Number:

99962677274