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The Chaco meridian : one thousand years of political and religious power in the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson ; foreword by Ruth M. Van Dyke, Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, and Severin Fowles.
Penn Museum Library E99.P9 L44 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lekson, Stephen H., author.
- Van Dyke, Ruth M., author of foreword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pueblo Indians--Antiquities.
- Pueblo Indians.
- Pueblo Indians--Politics and government.
- Pueblo roads.
- Mimbres culture.
- Chaco culture.
- Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.).
- Aztec Ruins National Monument (N.M.).
- Casas Grandes Site (Mexico).
- Mexico--Casas Grandes Site.
- New Mexico--Aztec Ruins National Monument.
- New Mexico--Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 257 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- Summary:
- Revisiting his groundbreaking synthesis of Southwestern prehistory, Lekson expands our understanding of the political and economic integration of the American Southwest to encapsulate more than 1,000 years and 1,000 kilometers, from AD 500 to the arrival of the conquistadors, and from Chaco Canyon to Aztec Ruins to Poquimé and even Culiacán in Sinaba, Mexico. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Pourparlers 1
- The Argument in Brief 1
- Plan of the Book 2
- It's Complicated... 5
- 2 Mondo Chaco 7
- The Emerald City? 14
- The (Social) Dynamics of Chaco Prehistory 14
- The Regional System 16
- Out on the Edges 21
- Redistribution Revisited 27
- Chaco Hegemony 30
- Prestige Deflated 34
- Pax Chaco: Peace with an Edge and a Bite 35
- Lords of the Great House 36
- Chaco and Mimbres 40
- Life after Mimbres 48
- 3 Meridian Nexus 55
- Down the Yellow Brick Road 55
- Uniquity and Möbius Logic 57
- Three Southwestern Cities 58
- Regional Integration 94
- A Millennium on the Meridian 98
- 4 A Beautiful Fact Killed by an Ugly Theory 117
- Means: "They Do Things Differently There" 121
- Means (Continued): "Can't Get There from Here" 128
- Motive (1): "Roads through Time" 130
- Motive (2): Direction and Distance 132
- Opportunity: "How Can You Be in Two Places at Once...?" 135
- Closing Arguments: "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" 138
- 5 Conclusions? 163
- The Four-Point Problem, without References 163
- But Wait... There's More! 165
- So What? 167
- New Methods Needed: Apply Within 168
- Chaco Meridian 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442246447
- 1442246448
- 9781442246454
- 1442246456
- OCLC:
- 900609017
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