Anasazi America : seventeen centuries on the road from Center Place /
At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. Developed over the course of centuries and thriving for over two hundred years, the Chacoans' society collapsed dramati...
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : Daniel's question
- The rhythms of civilization
- The roots of Anasazi society
- The role of agriculture. Featured research. Experimental comparison : stone boiling versus pot boiling / Mike Smith, Stella Kemper, Roy Huddleston, and T. Bradley-Varner ; Estimating early Four Corners population growth : a preliminary model / Christine Du Bois
- The rise of the Chaco Anasazi
- The Chaco phenomenon / David E. Stuart and Jenny (Lund) Sherman. Featured research. Four Corners farming : strategy, risks, and crop-calorie yields / Jenny (Lund) Sherman
- The fall of Chacoan society. Featured research. Burial goods at small and large Chacoan sites . Holland Sutton and Louis Wilcox ; Babies are expensive : farming and population growth / David E. Stuart ; Long story short : Stuart on Chaco / David E. Stuart
- The upland period
- Creation of Pueblo society. Featured research. Bone morphology, labor intensity, and economic behavior at Pecos Pueblo / James Medina and Elliott Hubbard
- Sustainable and enduring communities
- Epilogue : The spirit of community.