Chaco Revisited: New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

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Editors: Heitman, Carrie C. and Plog, Stephen

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Pub Date: 2016 (Second printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears.  Several folds along upper front cover corner and upper edge.  The longest approx. 6″, with an interior fold of approx. 2″.  4 red spots on bottom text block.  All corners worn.

Notes: Conference papers.  “Whatever Chaco was, it was different than the historic pueblos.  Nevertheless, Chacoans were among the ancestors of contemporary Pueblo people…The Keresan- and Tanoan-speaking Pueblos of the Rio Grande and southern San Juan Basin (Acoma and Laguna) have, we suspect, more direct historical links to Chaco and other Ancestral Pueblo groups of the core San Juan region, and their social, political, and ceremonial organizations are very different from the Western Pueblos of Hopi and Zuni.  The sodality-based ritual-political organizations of the Eastern Pueblos make more appropriate analogs and homologs for Chaco than the kin-based community organizations of the Western Pueblos.  Moreover, Eastern Pueblo oral traditions suggest distinct links to sites and shrines in and around Chaco Canyon.  (pages 322-323)