The archaeology of Chaco Canyon : an eleventh-century Pueblo regional center

摘要: The site of a great Ancestral Pueblo center in the 11th and 12th centuries AD, ruins Chaco Canyon look like city to some archaeologists, ceremonial others. people who created its monumental houses, extensive roads, network outlying settlements remain an enigma American archaeology.Two decades after latest largest program field research at Chaco, National Park Service's Project from 1971 1982, original researchers other leading scholars convened evaluate what they now know about light new theories data. Those meetings culminated advanced seminar School Research, where itself was born 1968. In this capstone volume, contributors address central archaeological themes, including environment, organization production, architecture, regional issues, society polity. They place time region, considering came before heyday neighbors north south, Mesoamerica.