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Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
The long history of field research at Grasshopper, a massive, 500-room pueblo in an isolated mountain meadow in east-central Arizona, has produced a wealth of architectural information. Drawing on this extensive research, Charles Riggs reconstructs the pueblo and provides a glimpse into the everyday life of the community at a critical time in Southwest prehistory. Riggs gives us a new view of community life at this ancient Puebloan site.
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
This colorful book documents the personal altars of mostly Hispanic families in northern New Mexico. The shrine tradition -- one not recognized by the Catholic Church -- began during the Mexican colonial period, when priests had to travel to perform mass and give sacraments.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
This book is intended as an introduction to Southwestern Archaeology for casual visitors. The book will guide you around a site in Sherlock Holmes fashion, giving you very real tools for understanding cliff dwellings. The Cliff Dwellings Speak also introduces readers to the descendants of the cliff dwellers -- the Pueblo people of the Southwest who still live there today. The book is highly illustrated with black and white photographs and engravings...
Pub. Date
©2002
Description
"The continuing work of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center has focused on community life in the central Mesa Verde region during the Great Pueblo period (A.D. 1150-1300). Researchers document the dramatic change in settlement that occurred during the last Puebloan occupation of the area, from communities of small, scattered farmsteads to large, aggregated villages. They also show that the largest villages and the majority of the population lived...