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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 | : Stephen H. Lekson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Aztec Ruins National Monument (N.M.) |
ISBN | : 9781442246447 |
Revisiting his ground-breaking synthesis of Southwestern prehistory, Lekson expands our understanding of the political and economic integration of the American Southwest to encapsulate over 1000 years and 1000 km, from AD 500 to the arrival of the conquistadors, and from Chaco Canyon to Aztec Ruins to Paquimé and even Culiacán in Sinaloa, Mexico.
Author | : Laurell K. Hamilton |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 577 |
Release | : 2001-01-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345446887 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet Merry Gentry, paranormal P.I., and enter a thrilling, sensual world as dangerous as it is beautiful, full of earthly pleasures and dazzling magic, and ruled by the all-consuming passions of immortal beings once worshipped as gods . . . or demons. Merry Gentry, princess of the high court of Faerie, is posing as a human in Los Angeles, working as a private investigator specializing in supernatural crime. But now the queen’s assassin has been dispatched to fetch her—whether she likes it or not. Suddenly Merry finds herself a pawn in her dreaded aunt’s plans. The job that awaits her: enjoy the constant company of the most beautiful immortal men in the world. The reward: the crown—and the opportunity to continue to live. The penalty for failure: death. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Laurell K. Hamilton’s A Shiver of Light. Praise for Laurell K. Hamilton and A Kiss of Shadows “One of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.”—Charlaine Harris “Sexy . . . Merry’s adventures are engaging and keep the reader turning the pages.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Stunning . . . steamy . . . an exciting and original world.”—San Jose Mercury News “I’ve never read a writer with a more fertile imagination.”—Diana Gabaldon
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 | : 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 | : Stephen H. Lekson |
Publisher | : Rowman Altamira |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780761991816 |
Stephen H. Lekson offers a lively, provocative thesis, which attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of the monumental 11th-century structures in Chaco Canyon and its importance to the understanding of the entire Southwest.
Author | : Stephen H. Lekson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Chaco Canyon (N.M.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kendrick Frazier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Chaco Canyon (N.M.) |
ISBN | : 9780393318258 |
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.
Author | : Paul E. Minnis |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816534012 |
In the mid-1560s Spanish explorers marched northward through Mexico to the farthest northern reaches of the Spanish empire in Latin America. They beheld an impressive site known as Casas Grandes in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Row upon row of walls featured houses and plazas of what was once a large population center, now deserted. Called Casas Grandes (Spanish for “large houses”) but also known as Paquimé, the prehistoric archaeological site may have been one of the first that Spanish explorers encountered. The Ibarra expedition, occurring perhaps no more than a hundred years after the site was abandoned, contained a chronicler named Baltasar de Obregón, who gave to posterity the first description of Paquimé: ". . . many houses of great size, strength, and height . . . six and seven stories, with towers and walls like fortresses for protection and defense against the enemies who undoubtedly used to make war on its inhabitants . . . large and magnificent patios paved with enormous and beautiful stones resembling jasper . . ." Casas Grandes, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is under the purview of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, which oversees a world-class museum near the ruins. Paquimé visitors can learn about the site’s history and its excavations, which were conducted under the pioneering research of Charles Di Peso and Eduardo Contreras Sánchez and their colleagues from INAH and the Amerind Foundation. Based on a half century of modern research since the Joint Casas Grandes Project, this book explores the recent discoveries about important site and its neighbors. Drawing the expertise of fourteen scholars from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, who have long worked in the region, the chapters revel new insights about Paquimé and its influence, bringing this fascinating place and its story to light.