About this title: At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. A vast and powerful alliance of thousands of farming hamlets and nearly 100 spectacular towns integrated the region through economic and religious ties, and the whole system was interconnected with hundreds of miles of roads. It took these Anasazi farmers more than seven centuries to lay the agricultural, organisational, and technological groundwork for the creation of classic Chacoan civilisation, which lasted about ...
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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780826321794ISBN:0826321798
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xvi, 248 pp., illus., maps, biblio., index; 23 cm. With the research assistance of Susan Moczygemba-McKinsey. Tight, clean text. Droplet staining/top edge. "At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. A vast and powerful alliance of thousands of farming hamlets and nearly 100 spectacular towns integrated the region through economic ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780826321794ISBN:0826321798
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Date Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN-13:9780826321794ISBN:0826321798
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780826321794ISBN:0826321798
Description: New. At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. A vast alliance of hamlets and towns integrated the region through economi... read more
"So, a required book for a graduate level course focusing mainly on the present-day Pueblo tribes in the Southwest (Anthropology 615: Southwest Ethnology - Pueblo at Northern Arizona University). Granted, it felt like a bit of a stretch to relate the book (a brief archaeological history of the Chacoans) to the present-day Native American descendants, but the connection is there: a number of these tribes claim cultural affiliation with the Chacoan Anasazi (or Ancestral Puebloans).
It was interesting to see the development of the Chacoan culture from the PaleoIndian period to their transformation into the modern Pueblos. It's a great text for non-archaeologists wanting to understand more about the past (also another good reason why archaeology is important).
David Stuart ties in the collapse of the Chacoan society with the (very likely) collapse of present-day America. Okay. I can see correlations between the two: the Chacoans, being agriculturalists, were extremely concerned with climatic changes. They had ceremonies and beliefs set around the need for rain for their crops. When droughts it, they failed to adapt and their society collapsed. Today, we still rely on farming to get our food, however, the majority of Americans are not farmers, and probably most of that majority doesn't even think of where exactly their food came from. We run the same risk of losing everything if the climate changes drastically.
Or do we? Stuart emphasizes the need for American culture to change, to look beyond our stuck-up noses and realize that if certain terrible things happen (such as all the farmers quitting or the disparity between the rich and poor getting larger and larger), we run the risk of our lives collapsing around us. His argument does have some good points, but I don't completely agree with them simply because one cannot really compare modern-day American life (complete with all the technology and international relations) to the ancient Chacoans (who did have wonderful technological advancements and relations with native tribes from the California coast to the Gulf of Mexico).
What is our risk of collapsing? Would we band together, forming strong community ties, to adjust our ways of living in a stressful situation? Would we impose on those other countries with which we have ties with to get us through a collapse? It does make one think of what we, as individuals would do, and what we would do (or not do) as a community to save ourselves. Still, I'd recommend this book more for the archaeology than the thought-provoking notions (but, that's me... being the archaeologist I am)."
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