In Search of Chaco

by Noble, David Grant

• ISBN13: 9781930618541
• ISBN10: 1930618549
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• 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

Preface
A Chaco Canyon chronology
Chaco's golden century	p. 1
Puebloan farmers of the Chacoan world	p. 7
The rise of early Chacoan great houses	p. 14
Architecture : the central matter of Chaco Canyon	p. 22
Artifacts in Chaco : where they came from and what they mean	p. 32
Sidebar : Chaco's corn : where was it grown?	p. 38
Yupkoyvi : the Hopi story of Chaco Canyon	p. 41
A Pueblo woman's perspective on Chaco Canyon	p. 48
Tse Biyah 'Ani'iahi : Chaco Canyon and its place in Navajo history	p. 54
The Chaco Navajos	p. 61
Great-house communities and the Chaco world	p. 70
Chaco's sacred geography	p. 78
Sacred time in Chaco Canyon and beyond	p. 86
Understanding Chacoan society	p. 93
Chaco Canyon : a view from the outside	p. 100
The Mesa Verde region : Chaco's northern neighbor	p. 107
A century of archaeology in Chaco Canyon	p. 116
Key debates in Chacoan archaeology	p. 123
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