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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838400303321

Titolo

Chaco's northern prodigies [[electronic resource] ] : Salmon, Aztec, and the ascendancy of the middle San Juan region after AD 1100 / / edited by Paul F. Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c2008

ISBN

1-60781-791-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReedPaul F

Disciplina

978.9/8201

Soggetti

Pueblo Indians - New Mexico - Antiquities

Pueblo Indians - Material culture - New Mexico

Excavations (Archaeology) - New Mexico

Pueblo pottery - New Mexico

Plant remains (Archaeology) - New Mexico

Salmon Site (N.M.) Congresses

Aztec Ruins National Monument (N.M.)

San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of the Salmon Working Conference held in Farmington, New Mexico, in April 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-427) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Part 1: Introduction -- 1. Setting the Stage: A Reconsideration of Salmon, Aztec, and the Middle San Juan Region in Chacoan and Post-Chacoan Puebloan History -- Part 2: Salmon Pueblo -- 2. Salmon Ruins: Architecture and Development of a Chacoan Satellite on the San Juan River -- 3. Salmon Pueblo as a Ritual and Residential Chacoan Great House -- Part 3: Material Culture Analyses: Salmon Pueblo -- 4. Subsistence and Plant Use During the Chacoan and Secondary Occupations at Salmon Ruin -- 5. Parasite Pathoecology of Salmon Pueblo and Other Chacoan Great Houses: The Healthiest and Wormiest Ancestral Puebloans -- 6. Animal Bone from Salmon Ruins and Other Great Houses: Faunal Exploitation in the Chaco World -- 7. Sighting Along the Grain: Differential Structural Wood Use at the Salmon Ruin -- 8. Human Remains Recovered from the Tower Kiva at Salmon Ruins --



Part 4: Material Culture Analyses: Across the Middle San Juan -- 9. An Initial Assessment of Perishable Relationships Among Salmon, Aztec, and Chaco Canyon -- 10. Ceramics of the Middle San Juan Region: Potters, Recipes, and Varieties -- Part 5: New Researchin the Middle San Juan Region -- 11. Puebloan Communities on the South Side of the Middle San Juan River -- 12. Animas Anamnesis: Aztec Ruins or Anasazi Capital? -- 13. Comparing Great House Architecture: Perspectives from the Bluff Great House -- Part 6: Synthetic Views of the Middle San Juan Region -- 14. Chacoan Society: The View from Salmon Ruins -- 15. The Position of Salmon Ruins in the Middle San Juan, ad 1000-1300: A Perspective from Ceramic Design Structure -- 16. The La Plata, the Totah, and the Chaco: Variations on a Theme -- 17. Sacred Landscapes: The Chaco-Totah Connection -- Part 7: From the Outside: Salmon and the Midle San Juan Region in a Larger Context.

18. Population Dynamics among Salmon's Northern Neighbors in the Central Mesa Verde Region -- 19. The Middle San Juan and Chaco Canyon -- Part 8: Conclusion -- 20. Prodigy, Rebel, or Stepchild? The Middle San Juan Region vis-à-vis Chaco Canyon -- References -- Contributors -- Index.