A History Of The Ancient Southwest
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Author | : Stephen H. Lekson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works would have us believe that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures. In this view, Chaco Canyon was a geopolitical reaction to the "Colonial Period" Hohokam expansion and the Hohokam "Classic Period" was the product of refugee Chacoan nobles, chased off the Colorado Plateau by angry farmers. Far to the south, Casas Grandes was a failed attempt to create a Mesoamerican state, and modern Pueblo people--with societies so different from those at Chaco and Casas Grandes--deliberately rejected these monumental, hierarchical episodes of their past. From the publisher: The second printing of A History of the Ancient Southwest has corrected the errors noted below. SAR Press regrets an error on Page 72, paragraph 4 (also Page 275, note 2) regarding "absolute dates." "50,000 dates" was incorrectly published as "half a million dates." Also P. 125, lines 13-14: "Between 21,000 and 27,000 people lived there" should read "Between 2,100 and 2,700 people lived there."
Author | : Harold Sterling Gladwin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
From dust jacket: "In this book which is not only for the archaeologist but for the layman, Mr. Gladwin begins by describing the process through which dirt encrusted sherds finally emerge 'as the dictionary of an ancient language of which there is no other written record.' He does it in such enticing terms that the chances are most of his readers will wish that they could join in the fun. But there is much more than fun in this profusely illustrated volume. In translating 'the architecture, pottery, stones, and bones that have been uncovered into something resembling a history of the peoples who left these behind them,' which is what he sets out to do, the author makes provocative use of his vast knowledge of the ancient Southwest."
Author | : David Roberts |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1439127239 |
An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi. David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo—who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than a century, trying to determine the environmental and cultural stresses that caused their society to collapse 700 years ago. He guides us through controversies in the historical record, among them the haunting question of whether the Anasazi committed acts of cannibalism. Roberts’s book is full of up-to-date thinking on the culture of the ancient people who lived in the harsh desert country of the Southwest.
Author | : John Kantner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2004-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521788809 |
An introduction to the history of the Puebloan Southwest from the AD 1000s to the sixteenth century, first published in 2004.
Author | : Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2010-11-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 075911997X |
This book is about the tangled relationship between Native peoples and archaeologists in the American Southwest. Even as this relationship has become increasingly significant for both "real world" archaeological practice and studies in the history of anthropology, no other single book has synthetically examined how Native Americans have shaped archaeological practice in the Southwest and how archaeological practice has shaped Native American communities. From oral traditions to repatriations to disputes over sacred sites, the next generation of archaeologists (as much as the current generation) needs to grapple with the complex social and political history of the Southwest's Indigenous communities, the values and interests those communities have in their own cultural legacies, and how archaeological science has impacted and continues to impact Indian country.
Author | : Steven A. LeBlanc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Most people today, including many archaeologists, view the Pueblo people of the Southwest as historically peaceful, sedentary corn farmers. In Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest Steven LeBlanc demonstrates how the prevailing picture of the ancient Puebloans is highly romanticized. Taking a pan-Southwestern view of the entire prehistoric and early historic time range and considering archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence and oral traditions, he presents a different picture. Objectively sought, evidence of war and its consequences is abundant. The people of the region fought for their survival and evolved their societies to meet the demands of conflict.
Author | : Stephen H. Lekson |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 1999-03-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0759117373 |
Lekson's ground-breaking synthesis of 500 years of Southwestern prehistory—with its explanation of phenomena as diverse as the Great North Road, macaw feathers, Pueblo mythology, and the rise of kachina ceremonies—will be of great interest to all those concerned with the prehistory and history of the American Southwest.
Author | : William N. Morgan |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780292751590 |
During more than a thousand years before Europeans arrived in 1540, the native peoples of what is now the southwestern United States and northern Mexico developed an architecture of rich diversity and beauty. Vestiges of thousands of these dwellings and villages still remain, in locations ranging from Colorado in the north to Chihuahua in the south and from Nevada in the west to eastern New Mexico. This study presents the most comprehensive architectural survey of the region currently available. Organized in five chronological sections that include 132 professionally rendered site drawings, the book examines architectural evolution from humble pit houses to sophisticated, multistory pueblos. The sections explore concurrent Mogollon, Hohokam, and Anasazi developments, as well as those in the Salado, Sinagua, Virgin River, Kayenta, and other areas, and compare their architecture to contemporary developments in parts of eastern North America and Mesoamerica. The book concludes with a discussion of changes in Native American architecture in response to European influences.
Author | : Gregory McNamee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2015-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781933855882 |
Author | : David Roberts |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2015-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0393241890 |
An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche.