Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World
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Author: Snead, James E.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Pub Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Book: Good. Binding tight. No marks, tears, bends or folds. Very light edge and corner wear. Dust Jacket: Good. NOT price clipped (no price indicated). Very light edge and corner wear.
Notes: The land–how people used it, and how it influenced decision-making in 5 northern New Mexican pueblos in the period A.D. 1250-1500. The five pueblos analyzed individually are Burnt Corn, T’obimpaenge, Tsikwaiye, Los Aguajes, and Tsankawi. Landscape archaeology, access to resources, movement. “Our Dark Age forebears possessed skills which we probably did not credit them with, and second, the word scape could also indicate something like an organization or a system. And why not? If housescape meant the organization of the personnel of a house, if township eventually came to mean an administrative unit, then landscape could well have meant something like an organization, a system of rural farm spaces. At all events, it is clear that a thousand years ago the word had nothing to do with scenery or the depiction of scenery.” (John Brinkerhoff Jackson, Landscape in Sight, Yale University Press, 1997, p. 304)
