Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: An Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center

by Stephen H. Lekson

Book Overview

The site of a great Ancestral Pueblo center in the 11th and 12th centuries AD, the ruins in Chaco Canyon look like a city to some archaeologists, a ceremonial center to others. Chaco and the people who created its monumental great houses, extensive roads, and network of outlying settlements remain an enigma in American archaeology. Two decades after the latest and largest program of field research at Chaco (the National Park Service's Chaco Project...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930618484
• ISBN13: 9781930618480
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"