In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma (A School for Advanced Research Popular Archaeology Book) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930618425 ISBN 13: 9781930618428

Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press, 2004

Synopsis

Startling discoveries and impassioned debates have emerged from the "Chaco Phenomenon" since the publication of New Light on Chaco Canyon twenty years ago. This completely updated edition features seventeen original essays, scores of photographs, maps, and site plans, and the perspectives of archaeologists, historians, and Native American thinkers. Key topics include the rise of early great houses; the structure of agricultural life among the people of Chaco Canyon; their use of sacred geography and astronomy in organizing their spiritual cosmology; indigenous knowledge about Chaco from the perspective of Hopi, Tewa, and Navajo peoples; and the place of Chaco in the wider world of archaeology.

For more than a century archaeologists and others have pursued Chaco Canyon's many and elusive meanings. In Search of Chaco brings these explorations to a new generation of enthusiasts.

About this title

About the Author:

David Grant Noble is a writer and photographer who has authored and edited many books on the history and archaeology of the Southwest.

Review:

In Search of Chaco serves as an excellent basic introduction to Chaco studies over the past two decades; basic but not simplistic. It's an updated edition of the author's 1984 SAR publication, New Light on Chaco Canyon. There are contributions here from many eminent lights of Southwestern archaeology and Chaco research. And there are a bountiful number of photographs (including color), maps and figures to enrich the armchair explorer's journey. [The book] can serve as a leisurely read for the interested visitor to Chaco or insightful overview for the avocational archaeologist, while bearing the authoritative imprimatur of some of its most eminent researchers. --Charles Swenson, Dirtbrothers.org, 1/2010

About this edition

• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1930618425
• ISBN 13: 9781930618428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158
• Editor: Noble David Grant