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Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place » Read Now
by Susan Moczygemba-McKinsey, David E. Stuart . 264 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

David E. Stuart is associate provost and professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
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People and Their Environment: Searching the Historical Record, in Social Studies (Includes "The People and Their Environment: A Case Study - The Anasazi on Mesa Verde") » Read Now
by Michael G. Allen, Robert L. Stevens. 5 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Press. McNitt, F. 1966 . 2nd. ed. Richard Wetherill Anasazi . Albuquerque, N. M.: University of New Mexico Press...Ortiz, A. (ed.). 1979 . Handbook of North American...
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Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory (Chap. 4 "Prehistoric Cooperation and Competition in the Western Anasazi Area") » Read Now
by Linda S. Cordell. 424 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Across the Chichimec Sea: Papers in Honor of J. Charles Kelley (Chap. 18 "Pochteca: Burials at Anasazi Sites?") » Read Now
by Carroll L. Riley, Basil C. Hedrick. 318 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Indians of North America -- Southwest...18. Pochteca BURIALS AT ANASAZI SITES? Jonathan E. Reyman...changed them from northern "pueblo...
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Gardens of Prehistory: The Archaeology of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica ("Anasazi Prehistory and Previous Research in the Lower Rio Chama Valley" begins on p. 54) » Read Now
by Thomas W. Killion. 334 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...waffle gardens. Chaco Canyon, in the Anasazi culture area, features highly sophisticated...level of technological sophistication of Anasazi farmers inhibited the...
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The Anthropology of Cannibalism (Chap. 4 "Anasazi Mutilation and Cannibalism in the American Southwest") » Read Now
by Laurence R. Goldman. 170 pgs.

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The topic of cannibalism continues to be emblematic of people's ideas of the "exotic other." In addition to its lingering cultural meanings, the continued interest in the topic stems in part from the history of controversy about methods, evidence, and inference patterns within anthropology and...
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The topic of cannibalism continues to be emblematic of people's ideas of the "exotic other." In addition to its lingering cultural meanings, the continued interest in the topic stems in part from the history of controversy about methods, evidence, and inference patterns within anthropology and archaeology. This book looks at how and why cannibalism was actually practiced, both as part of a wider cultural system of meanings about reproduction and regeneration as well as how cannibalism as myth perpetuates political processes of stereotyping across cultures.
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Richard Wetherill: Anasazi » Read Now
by Frank McNitt. 370 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Anasazi, the Navajos' name for the 'Ancient Ones' who preceded them into the Southwest, is the nickname of Richard Wetherill, who devoted his life to a search for remains of these vanished peoples. His discoveries are among the most important ever made by an American archaeologist.
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Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Discussion of Anasazi Indians begins on p. 159) » Read Now
by Brian Fagan. 284 pgs.

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In 1997-98, El Nino disrupted weather patterns the world over. Europe suffered a record freeze, the American West was hit by terrible floods and snowstorms, and drought brought famine to East Africa and forest fires to Southeast Asia.
In this groundbreaking work of "historical meteorology", Brian...
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In 1997-98, El Nino disrupted weather patterns the world over. Europe suffered a record freeze, the American West was hit by terrible floods and snowstorms, and drought brought famine to East Africa and forest fires to Southeast Asia.
In this groundbreaking work of "historical meteorology", Brian Fagan shows that these events were neither isolated nor new: El Nino has been wreaking intermittent havoc for at least five millennia. Integrating weather science, archeology, and the narrative gifts of a born storyteller, Fagan shows how dramatic shifts in climate have shaped peoples, places, and history since the dawn of time.
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Anasazi Pottery: Ten Centuries of Prehistoric Ceramic Art in the Four Corners Country of the Southwestern United States » Read Now
by Robert H. Lister, Florence C. Lister. 104 pgs.

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This catalogue describes and illustrates ten centuries of prehistoric south-western pottery, most of it from the Four Corners country, where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona meet. The pottery shown here was collected by pioneering southwestern archaeologist Earl H. Morris (1889-1956). Since...
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This catalogue describes and illustrates ten centuries of prehistoric south-western pottery, most of it from the Four Corners country, where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona meet. The pottery shown here was collected by pioneering southwestern archaeologist Earl H. Morris (1889-1956). Since Morris's death, his collection has been housed in the University of Colorado Museum. Most of the vessels in the Morris Collection are illustrated here. While the catalogue concentrates on pieces from the area between Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde, a few pots from other regions demonstrate the variations in prehistoric pottery making in the Southwest. Morris's comments from his own catalogue of the collection are included. In addition to describing the vessels, he tells how each came into his possession -- where he found it or what he traded for it. The Listers have added information about type, size, and provenience. Originally published in 1969, this catalogue has proved its value to ar-chaeologists, collectors, and readers interested in the history of southwest-ern archaeology.
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Ceramic Production and Distribution: An Integrated Approach (Discussion of Anasazi Indians begins on p. 155) » Read Now
by George J. Bey III, Christopher A. Pool. 360 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library