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Author | : Peter Lourie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781590784754 |
Presents, in text and photographs, a journey to Chaco Canton, New Mexico, examining ruins, culture, and theories of why the Anasazi abandoned the region.
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 | : 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.
Author | : Baker H. Morrow |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780826317797 |
Take a fascinating journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. Twenty-two essays identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, history, mythology, and ecology. 40 halftones. 5 maps.
Author | : Frank McNitt |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780826303295 |
Biography of the man who discovered the prehistoric ruins at Mesa Verde, Colorado, and began the excavation of Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.
Author | : David Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Pueblo Indians |
ISBN | : 9780068410782 |
Author | : Louis L'Amour |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2004-08-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553899198 |
The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the “ancient enemy,” and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn of the astonishing world of the Anasazi and discover the most extraordinary frontier ever encountered.
Author | : Z. D. Tillery |
Publisher | : Dorrance Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2006-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780805970081 |
"This is a book about Indian ways of the spirit world seen through the perceptive light of Christianity"--Introduction.
Author | : Dewitt Jones |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Here is the most up-to-date and accurate story of the Anasazi and their fascinating world. This ancient civilization disappeared from the Southwest by A.D. 1300, leaving behind their amazing cliff dwellings, but few other clues as to their existence. Noted anthropologist, Linda Cordell, has written an informative text for Anasazi World that races the clues and waves the most complete story of these people to date. Professional photographer Dewitt Jones has journeyed throughout the ruins on numerous trips including assignments under contract with the National Geographic Society.
Author | : Frank Joseph |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2009-12-21 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1591439817 |
The examination of four great civilizations that existed before Columbus’s arrival in North America offers evidence of sustained contact between the Old and New Worlds • Describes the cultural splendor, political might, and incredibly advanced technology of these precursors to our modern age • Shows that North America’s first civilization, the Adena, was sparked by ancient Kelts from Western Europe and explores links between Hopewell Mound Builders and prehistoric Japanese seafarers Before Rome ruled the Classical World, gleaming stone pyramids stood amid smoking iron foundries from North America’s Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River. On its east bank, across from today’s St. Louis, Missouri, flourished a walled city more populous than London was one thousand years ago, with a pyramid larger--at its base--than Egypt’s Great Pyramid. During the 12th century, hydraulic engineers laid out a massive irrigation network spanning the American Southwest that, if laid end to end, would stretch from Phoenix, Arizona, to the Canadian border. On a scale to match, they built a five-mile-wide dam from ten million cubic yards of rock. While Europe stumbled through the Dark Ages, a metropolis of weirdly shaped, multistory superstructures, precisely aligned to the sun and moon, sprawled across the New Mexico Desert. Who was responsible for such colossal achievements? Where did their mysterious builders come from, and what became of them? These are some of the questions investigated by Frank Joseph in his examination of ancient influences at work on our continent. He reveals that modern civilization is not the first to arise in North America but was preceded instead by four high cultures that rose and fell over the past three thousand years: the Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Anasazi-Hohokam. How they achieved greatness and why they vanished so completely are the intriguing enigmas explored by this unconventional prehistory of our country, Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America.