Reviews
"Introduces readers to the formal attributes of Chacoan great houses, great kivas, rectangular and round rooms, room suites, walls, and plazas. A valuable resource for architects and landscape archtiects interested in Native American built environments. At the same time, it provides significant new information for Chaco scholars and for Native Americans who claim Chaco Canyon as an ancestral place."- Traditional Buildings and Settlements Review, "This volume gives new insights and perspectives that bring us much closer to the answers than ever before."-- American Archaeology, "Introduces readers to the formal attributes of Chacoan great houses, great kivas, rectangular and round rooms, room suites, walls, and plazas. A valuable resource for architects and landscape architects interested in Native American built environments. At the same time, it provides significant new information for Chaco scholars and for Native Americans who claim Chaco Canyon as an ancestral place."-- Traditional Buildings and Settlements Review, " The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico is a work of superb scholarship and a highly recommended contribution to any academic library's Native American Studies and pre-Columbian archaeology studies reference collections."-- Midwest Book Review, "Introduces readers to the formal attributes of Chacoan great houses, great kivas, rectangular and round rooms, room suites, walls, and plazas. A valuable resource for architects and landscape archtiects interested in Native American built environments. At the same time, it provides significant new information for Chaco scholars and for Native Americans who claim Chaco Canyon as an ancestral place."-- Traditional Buildings and Settlements Review, " The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico is a work of superb scholarship and a highly recommended contribution to any academic library's Native American Studies and pre-Columbian archaeology studies reference collections."- Midwest Book Review, "This volume gives new insights and perspectives that bring us much closer to the answers than ever before."- American Archaeology
Table of Content
Table of Contents: List of Illustrations List of Tables 1. Introduction - Stephen H. Lekson 2. Great House Form - Stephen H. Lekson 3. Gearing Up and Piling On: Early Great Houses in the Interior San Juan Basin - Thomas C. Windes 4. Great Kivas in Time, Space, and Society - Ruth M. Van Dyke 5. Architecture Studies of Pueblo Bonito: The Past, the Present, and the Future - Jill E. Neitzel 6. The Changing Faces of Chetro Ketl - Stephen H. Lekson, Thomas C. Windes, and Patricia Fournier 7. Building Social History at Pueblo Bonito: Footnotes to a Biography of Place - Wendy Ashmore 8. Revisiting Downtown Chaco - John Stein, Richard Friedman, Taft Blackhorse, and Richard Loose 9. The Primary Architecture of the Chacoan Culture: A Cosmological Expression - Anna Sofaer Contributors Index
