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Author Fagan, Brian M.

Title Chaco Canyon : archeologists explore the lives of an ancient society / Brian Fagan.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : University Press, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  978.92 F131c 2005    ---  Available
Description xv, 256 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-246) and index.
Contents A canyon and its environs -- Mysterious Chaco -- Explorers, treasure hunters, and archaeologists -- The setting -- Beginnings -- Ultimate ancestry -- Shabik'eshchee and the first Pueblos -- A world of movement -- Apogee -- Old Bonito -- A time of great houses -- Tentacles of interconnection -- "Disconnected heterogeneity" -- The Chaco enigma -- Movement -- Readjustment -- Chaco's legacy
Subject Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Chaco Canyon -- Antiquities.
Chaco Canyon (N.M.) -- Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- New Mexico -- Chaco Canyon.
ISBN 0195170431 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. 9780195170436

 
    
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