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A History of the Ancient Southwest (Paperback)
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A History of the Ancient Southwest (Paperback)
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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.
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