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Peublo Peoples On the Pajarito Plateau (Paperback, New)
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Peublo Peoples On the Pajarito Plateau (Paperback, New)
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List price R574
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Discovery Miles 4 720
You Save R102 (18%)
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This lively overview of the archaeology of northern New Mexico's
Pajarito Plateau argues that Bandelier National Monument and the
Pajarito Plateau became the Southwest's most densely populated and
important upland ecological preserve when the great regional
society centered on Chaco Canyon collapsed in the twelfth century.
Some of Chaco's survivors moved southeast to the then thinly
populated Pajarito Plateau, where they were able to survive by
fundamentally refashioning their society. David E. Stuart, an
anthropologist/archaeologist known for his stimulating overviews of
prehistoric settlement and subsistence data, argues here that this
re-creation of ancestral Puebloan society required a fundamental
rebalancing of the Chacoan model. Where Chaco was based on growth,
grandeur, and stratification, the socioeconomic structure of
Bandelier was characterized by efficiency, moderation, and
practicality. Although Stuart's focus is on the archaeology of
Bandelier and the surrounding area, his attention to events that
predate those sites by several centuries and at substantial
distances from the modern monument is instructive. Beginning with
Paleo-Indian hunter-gatherers and ending with the large villages
and great craftsmen of the mid-sixteenth century, Stuart presents
Bandelier as a society that, in crisis, relearned from its
pre-Chacoan predecessors how to survive through creative
efficiencies. Illustrated with previously unpublished maps
supported by the most recent survey data, this book is
indispensable for anyone interested in southwestern archaeology.
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