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Product Identifiers

PublisherSchool for Advanced Research Press/Sar Press

ISBN-101934691100

ISBN-139781934691106

eBay Product ID (ePID)70927883

Product Key Features

Number of Pages452 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHistory of the Ancient Southwest

Publication Year2009

SubjectArchaeology, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, North America

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorStephen H. Lekson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight31 Oz

Item Length9.9 in

Item Width6.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2008-039655

Dewey Edition22

TitleLeadingA

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal979/.01

SynopsisAccording to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past., According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works would have us believe that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures. In this view, Chaco Canyon was a geopolitical reaction to the "Colonial Period" Hohokam expansion and the Hohokam "Classic Period" was the product of refugee Chacoan nobles, chased off the Colorado Plateau by angry farmers. Far to the south, Casas Grandes was a failed attempt to create a Mesoamerican state, and modern Pueblo people--with societies so different from those at Chaco and Casas Grandes--deliberately rejected these monumental, hierarchical episodes of their past. From the publisher: The second printing of A History of the Ancient Southwest has corrected the errors noted below. SAR Press regrets an error on Page 72, paragraph 4 (also Page 275, note 2) regarding "absolute dates." "50,000 dates" was incorrectly published as "half a million dates." Also P. 125, lines 13-14: "Between 21,000 and 27,000 people lived there" should read "Between 2,100 and 2,700 people lived there."

LC Classification NumberE78.S7L45 2009