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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969109803321

Titolo

Chaco's northern prodigies : 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 Middle 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.

Sommario/riassunto

In the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the ancient pueblo sites of Aztec and Salmon in the Middle San Juan region rapidly emerged as population and political centers during the closing stages of Chaco's ascendancy.