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Author: Earl Halstead Morris
Publisher: Western National Parks Association
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781877856570
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This reprint of a 1920 article by the famous archeologist of the Southwest details the excavation and restoration of one of the largest kivas ever discovered. Includes photographs of the excavated kiva before it was reconstructed.
Author: Frank Harold Hanna Roberts
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Published: 1932
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. National Park Service
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Published: 1942
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arthur H. Rohn
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780826339706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. Aerial and ground photographs, over 325 in color, and sixty settlement plans provide an armchair trip to ruins that are open to the public and that may be visited or viewed from nearby. Included, too, are the living pueblos from Taos in north central New Mexico along the Rio Grande Valley to Isleta, and westward through Acoma and Zuni to the Hopi pueblos in Arizona. In addition to the architecture of the ruins, Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest gives a detailed overview of the Pueblo Indians' lifestyles including their spiritual practices, food, clothing, shelter, physical appearance, tools, government, water management, trade, ceramics, and migrations.
Author: Catherine M. Cameron
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780816526819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chaco Canyon, the great Ancestral Pueblo site of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, remains a central problem of Southwestern archaeology. Chaco, with its monumental Ògreat houses,Ó was the center of a vast region marked by ÒoutlierÓ great houses. The canyon itself has been investigated for over a century, but only a few of the more than 200 outlier great housesÑkey to understanding Chaco and its timesÑhave been excavated. This volume explores the Chaco and post-Chaco eras in the northern San Juan area through extensive excavations at the Bluff Great House, a major Chaco ÒoutlierÓ in Utah. BluffÕs massive great house, great kiva, and earthen berms are described and compared to other great houses in the northern Chaco region. Those assessments support intriguing new ideas about the Chaco region and the effect of the collapse of Chaco Canyon on ÒoutlyingÓ great houses. New insights from the Bluff Great House clarify the construction and use of great houses during the Chaco era and trace the history of great houses in the generations after ChacoÕs decline. An innovative comparative study of the northern and southern portions of the Chaco world (the northern San Juan area around Bluff and the Cibola area around Zuni) leads to new ideas about population aggregation and regional abandonment in the Southwest. Appendixes on CD-ROM present details and descriptions of artifacts recovered from Bluff: ceramics, projectile points, pollen analyses, faunal remains, bone tools, ornaments, and more. This book is one of only a handful of reports on Chacoan great houses in the northern San Juan region. It provides an in-depth study of the Chaco era and clarifies the relationship of ÒoutlyingÓ great houses to Chaco Canyon. Research at the Bluff Great House begins to answer key questions about the nature of Chaco and its region, and the history of the northern San Juan in the Chaco and post-Chaco worlds.
Author: Nicky J. Leach
Publisher: Western National Parks Association
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 1877856142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A well-organized guide to 52 national parks in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah. One of the most complete guides to the national parks ever written. Includes 53 maps and photos.
