Anasazi

Author : David E. Stuart
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826321798
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anasazi America written by David E. Stuart and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, organizational, and technological groundwork for the creation of classic Chacoan civilization, which lasted about 200 years--only to collapse spectacularly in a mere 40. Why did such a great society collapse? Who survived? Why? In this lively book anthropologist/archaeologist David Stuart presents answers to these questions that offer useful lessons to modern societies. His account of the rise and fall of the Chaco Anasazi brings to life the people known to us today as the architects of Chaco Canyon, the spectacular national park in New Mexico that thousands of tourists visit every year.

Author : Frank McNitt
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826303295
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Wetherill written by Frank McNitt and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the man who discovered the prehistoric ruins at Mesa Verde, Colorado, and began the excavation of Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.

Author : Allan Hayes
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1589798627
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southwestern Pottery written by Allan Hayes and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this book first appeared in 1996, it was “Pottery 101,” a basic introduction to the subject. It served as an art book, a history book, and a reference book, but also fun to read, beautiful to look at, and filled with good humor and good sense. After twenty years of faithful service, it’s been expanded and brought up-to-date with photographs of more than 1,600 pots from more than 1,600 years. It shows every pottery-producing group in the Southwest, complete with maps that show where each group lives. Now updated, rewritten, and re-photographed, it's a comprehensive study as well as a basic introduction to the art.

Author : Baker H. Morrow
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826317797
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anasazi Architecture and American Design written by Baker H. Morrow and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a fascinating journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. Twenty-two essays identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, history, mythology, and ecology. 40 halftones. 5 maps.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439127239
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Old Ones written by David Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi. David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi—the name means “enemy ancestors” in Navajo—who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than a century, trying to determine the environmental and cultural stresses that caused their society to collapse 700 years ago. He guides us through controversies in the historical record, among them the haunting question of whether the Anasazi committed acts of cannibalism. Roberts’s book is full of up-to-date thinking on the culture of the ancient people who lived in the harsh desert country of the Southwest.

Author : Leonard Everett Fisher
Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anasazi written by Leonard Everett Fisher and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the day-to-day life of the Anasazi Indians.

Author : Anasazi Foundation
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626560927
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Paths written by Anasazi Foundation and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enhanced edition of The Seven Paths contains 20 minutes of exclusive video interviews with Good Buffalo Eagle, co-founder of ANASAZI Foundation, and his sons Thunder Voice Eagle and Gentle Wind Eagle. This gives the reader a glimpse of the ANASAZI trail and greater insight into what it means to live the Path of WE. People have moved away from Mother Earth, bringing heartache, pain, and other maladies of the modern age. The “self-help” movement claims to offer peace and fulfillment to individuals, but this solitary approach takes us only so far. Ultimately, it is in communion with our fellow beings and the natural world that we are made whole. We need to leave the path of Me and follow the path of We. This poetic, evocative story presents the meditations of an ancient Anasazi tribesman who rejects his family and sets off on a journey through the desert. He walks seven paths, each teaching a lesson symbolized by an element of the natural world: light, wind, water, stone, plants, animals, and, finally, the unity of all beings with the Creator. The Seven Paths reveals a source of wisdom, restoration, and renewal familiar to native people but lost to the rest of us, seven elements among nature that combine to mend human hearts. Filmed against the backdrop of the beautiful and dramatic Arizona desert, the thirteen videos expand on the deeper messages of the book. ANASAZI founder Good Buffalo Eagle reflects on the profound gift of choice we are all granted, how we transform ourselves by lifting others up, what happens when we recognize the seeds of greatness in ourselves and others, how nature teaches us, and how we find our belonging place. His son Gentle Wind Eagle explains why a heart at peace can always overcome a heart at war. And his son Thunder Voice Eagle shares his moving personal experiences walking each of the seven paths.

Author : Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812540338
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visitant written by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman runs away in search of a Spiritual Helper, never to return.

Author : Eleanor H. Ayer
Publisher : Walker & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802781857
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anasazi written by Eleanor H. Ayer and published by Walker & Company. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines what is known about the Anasazi civilization, from the arrival of the Ancient Ones in North America 14,000 years ago to the lives of their present-day descendants, the Pueblo.

Author : Brian Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780937871300
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Ones written by Brian Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1986-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: