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

• Pubblicazione: Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (456 p.)
• Disciplina: 978.9/8201
• Soggetto topico: Pueblo Indians - New Mexico - Antiquities; Pueblo Indians - Material culture - New Mexico; Excavations (Archaeology) - New Mexico; Pueblo pottery - New Mexico; Plant remains (Archaeology) - New Mexico
• Soggetto geografico: Salmon Site (N.M.) Congresses; Aztec Ruins National Monument (N.M.); San Juan River Valley (Colo.-Utah) Antiquities
• Altri autori: ReedPaul F
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Chaco's northern prodigies
• ISBN: 1-60781-791-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969109803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II