In Search of Chaco

by Noble, David Grant

• ISBN13: 9781930618428
• ISBN10: 1930618425
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research/Sar pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface	xiii
David Grant Noble
Acknowledgments	xv
A Chaco Canyon Chronology	xvi
Chaco's Golden Century	1	(6)
W. James Judge
Puebloan Farmers of the Chacoan World	7	(7)
R. Gwinn Vivian
The Rise of Early Chacoan Great Houses	14	(8)
Thomas C. Windes
Architecture: The Central Matter of Chaco Canyon	22	(10)
Stephen H. Lekson
Artifacts in Chaco: Where They Came From and What They Mean	32	(9)
H. Wolcott Toll
Sidebar: Chaco's Corn: Where Was It Grown?	38	(3)
Linda S. Cordell
Yupkoyvi: The Hopi Story of Chaco Canyon	41	(7)
Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma
A Pueblo Woman's Perspective on Chaco Canyon	48	(6)
Rina Swentzell
Tse Biyah `Anii'ahi: Chaco Canyon and Its Place in Navajo History	54	(7)
Richard M. Begay
The Chaco Navajos	61	(9)
David M. Brugge
Great-House Communities and the Chaco World	70	(8)
John Kantner
Chaco's Sacred Geography	78	(8)
Ruth M. Van Dyke
Sacred Time in Chaco Canyon and Beyond	86	(7)
J. McKim Malville
Understanding Chacoan Society	93	(7)
Lynne Sebastian
Chaco Canyon: A View from the Outside	100	(7)
Colin Renfrew
The Mesa Verde Region: Chaco's Northern Neighbor	107	(9)
William D. Lipe
A Century of Archaeology in Chaco Canyon	116	(7)
Florence C. Lister
Key Debates in Chacoan Archaeology	123	(8)
Barbara J. Mills
Suggested Reading	131	(1)
Picture Credits	132	(2)
Index	134