Pueblo Peoples on the Pajarito Plateau: Archaeology and Efficiency

Description

Author: Stuart, David E.

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 2010

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.  Copy 2 (SR): Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: “…how Bandelier Monument and the plateau on which it sits became the Southwest’s most densely populated area after the powerful society centered in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, collapsed in the 1100s CE…Until then only lightly inhabited by foraging and hunting folk, the Pajarito Plateau had remained probably the northern Southwest’s most important upland ecological preserve.  Migrating to it gave some of the stunned survivors of Chaco’s fall a place in which to refashion themselves and rise from catastrophe…to rebalance the Chacoans’ final obsession with growth, grandeur, and hierarchy with a return to a way of life of much greater efficiency, moderation, and practicality.”  (From the Preface)  Why am I thinking of the late 1960s, early 1970s “back to the land” movement?