Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Heitman, Carrie C.
• Plog, Stephen

Description

viii, 362 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Amerind studies in anthropology

Uniform Title

Amerind studies in anthropology.

Subjects

• Chaco culture
• Chaco culture > New Mexico > Chaco Canyon
• Chaco Canyon (N.M.) > Antiquities
• Antiquities
• New Mexico > Chaco Canyon

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 15-2990

ISBN

• 9780816531608 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0816531609 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2014039733

OCLC

900608914

Title

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

Publisher

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Amerind studies in anthropology

Amerind studies in anthropology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Heitman, Carrie C., editor.

Plog, Stephen, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-2990