Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place, Second Edition

Description

Author: Stuart, David E.

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 2014

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Lower front cover corner worn, small folds extend through 15 or so pages.  Some corner and edge wear.  Smudging to bottom text block.

Notes: Where the first edition of this book “…described the failure of the Chacoans to change course and adapt in order to avert the collapse of the impressive regional society they had created in the tenth and eleventh centuries.  Foremost among Chacoan problems were misuse of farmland, divergence of wealth leading to the desperate economic and nutritional status of small farmers, the loss of community, unsupportable costs of massive infrastructure, and an inability to deal with climatological catastrophe…By contrast, this second edition includes much innovative undergraduate student research about caloric flows/usage in prehistoric times, and it focuses more on the evolutionary dynamics induced by those energy flows.  It also focuses more on the consequences of an increasingly detached central Chacoan decision-making structure.”  (From the Preface)