A study of Southwestern archaeology / Stephen H. Lekson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lekson, Stephen H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaco culture--Research--History.

Chaco culture.

Archaeology--Methodology.

History.

Hopi Indians--Antiquities.

Hopi Indians.

Antiquities.

Research.

Southwest, New--Antiquities--Research--History.

Southwest, New.

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

Chaco Canyon (N.M.).

Pueblo Indians--Antiquities.

Pueblo Indians.

Archaeology--Methodology--History.

Archaeology.

Antiquities--Research.

New Mexico--Chaco Canyon.

New Southwest.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 408 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In this volume Steve Lekson argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, he advocates an entirely new approach, one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking. Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco Canyon, the book provides a historical analysis of how Southwest archaeology confined itself, how it can break out of those confines, and how it can proceed into the future. Lekson suggests that much of what we believe about the ancient Southwest should be radically revised. Looking past old preconceptions brings a different Chaco Canyon into view. More than an eleventh-century Pueblo ritual center, Chaco was a political capital with nobles and commoners, a regional economy, and deep connections to Mesoamerica. By getting the history right, a very different science of the ancient Southwest becomes possible and archaeology can be reinvented as a very different discipline."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chaco in the twentieth century

Chaco in the twenty-first century

A history of the ancient Southwest

A science of the ancient Southwest

An appraisal of the ancient Southwest

A future for the ancient Southwest.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-389) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lekson, Stephen H. Study of Southwestern archaeology.

ISBN:

9781607816416

1607816415

OCLC:

1041208958