People of Chaco

People of Chaco
Author: Kendrick Frazier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 261
Release: 1999
Genre: Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
ISBN: 9780393318258

The Greater Chaco Landscape

The Greater Chaco Landscape
Author: Ruth M. Van Dyke
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2021-05-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1646421701

Since the mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate potential conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. The Greater Chaco Landscape examines both the imminent threat posed by energy extraction and new ways of understanding Chaco Canyon⁠ and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities from southeast Utah to west-central New Mexico in the context of landscape archaeology. Contributors analyze many different dimensions of the Chacoan landscape and present the most effective, innovative, and respectful means of studying them, focusing on the significance of thousand-year-old farming practices; connections between early great houses outside the canyon and the rise of power inside it; changes to Chaco’s roads over time as observed in aerial imagery; rock art throughout the greater Chaco area; respectful methods of examining shrines, crescents, herraduras, stone circles, cairns, and other landscape features in collaboration with Indigenous colleagues; sensory experiences of ancient Chacoans via study of the sightlines and soundscapes of several outlier communities; and current legal, technical, and administrative challenges and options concerning preservation of the landscape. An unusually innovative and timely volume that will be available both in print and online, with the online edition incorporating video chapters presented by Acoma, Diné, Zuni, and Hopi cultural experts filmed on location in Chaco Canyon, The Greater Chaco Landscape is a creative collaboration with Native voices that will be a case study for archaeologists and others working on heritage management issues across the globe. It will be of interest to archaeologists specializing in Chaco and the Southwest, interested in remote sensing and geophysical landscape-level investigations, and working on landscape preservation and phenomenological investigations such as viewscapes and soundscapes. Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky, G. B. Cornucopia, Timothy de Smet, Sean Field, Richard A. Friedman, Dennis Gilpin, Presley Haskie, Tristan Joe, Stephen H. Lekson, Thomas Lincoln, Michael P. Marshall, Terrance Outah, Georgiana Pongyesva, Curtis Quam, Paul F. Reed, Octavius Seowtewa, Anna Sofaer, Julian Thomas, William B. Tsosie Jr., Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Ernest M. Vallo Jr., Carla R. Van West, Ronald Wadsworth, Robert S. Weiner, Thomas C. Windes, Denise Yazzie, Eurick Yazzie

People Of Chaco Revised And Updated

People Of Chaco Revised And Updated
Author: Kendrick Frazier
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393318258

Updated with the latest archaeological and anthropological evidence, "People of Chaco" is an essential book on the Chaco culture and ruins of northwestern New Mexico. Maps & photos.

People of Chaco

People of Chaco
Author: Kendrick Frazier
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393023138

Examines the ancestors of today's Pueblo community in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

Chaco Canyon

Chaco Canyon
Author: Robert Hill Lister
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826307569

The first complete account of Chacoan archaeology, from the discovery of the ruins by Spanish soldiers in the seventeenth century, through the scientific analyses of the 1970s.

Chaco Canyon

Chaco Canyon
Author: Brian M. Fagan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, "Chaco Canyon" draws on the very latest research on Chaco and its environs to tell the remarkable story of the people of the canyon, from foraging bands and humble farmers to the elaborate society that flourished between the 10th and 12th centuries A.D.

In Search of Chaco

In Search of Chaco
Author: David Grant Noble
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

Startling discoveries and impassioned debates have emerged from the "Chaco Phenomenon" since the publication of New Light on Chaco Canyon twenty years ago. This completely updated edition features seventeen original essays, scores of photographs, maps, and site plans, and the perspectives of archaeologists, historians, and Native American thinkers. Key topics include the rise of early great houses; the structure of agricultural life among the people of Chaco Canyon; their use of sacred geography and astronomy in organizing their spiritual cosmology; indigenous knowledge about Chaco from the perspective of Hopi, Tewa, and Navajo peoples; and the place of Chaco in the wider world of archaeology. For more than a century archaeologists and others have pursued Chaco Canyon's many and elusive meanings. In Search of Chaco brings these explorations to a new generation of enthusiasts.

Conflict, Heritage and World-Making in the Chaco

Conflict, Heritage and World-Making in the Chaco
Author: Esther Breithoff
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2020-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1787358062

Conflict, Heritage and World-Making in the Chaco documents and interprets the physical remains and afterlives of the Chaco War (1932–35) – known as South America’s first ‘modern’ armed conflict – in what is now present-day Paraguay. It focuses not only on archaeological remains as conventionally understood, but takes an ontological approach to heterogeneous assemblages of objects, texts, practices and landscapes shaped by industrial war and people’s past and present engagements with them. These assemblages could be understood to constitute a ‘dark heritage’, the debris of a failed modernity. Yet it is clear that they are not simply dead memorials to this bloody war, but have been, and continue to be active in making, unmaking and remaking worlds – both for the participants and spectators of the war itself, as well as those who continue to occupy and live amongst the vast accretions of war matériel which persist in the present.

Marietta Wetherill

Marietta Wetherill
Author: Marietta Wetherill
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826318206

While her husband Richard excavated ruins and created a trading post empire at the turn of the century, Marietta learned the rituals and reality of Navajo life from medicine men.

The Chaco Handbook

The Chaco Handbook
Author: R. Gwinn Vivian
Publisher: Chaco Canyon
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781607811954

Organizes the extensive information available for sites in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park.