In this volume Steve Lekson argues that, for over a century,
southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest
wrong. Instead, he advocates an entirely new approach-one that
separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its
anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking.
Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco Canyon, the
book provides a historical analysis of how Southwest archaeology
confined itself, how it can break out of those confines, and how it
can proceed into the future. Lekson suggests that much of what we
believe about the ancient Southwest should be radically revised.
Looking past old preconceptions brings a different Chaco Canyon
into view: more than an eleventh-century Pueblo ritual center,
Chaco was a political capital with nobles and commoners, a regional
economy, and deep connections to Mesoamerica. By getting the
history right, a very different science of the ancient Southwest
becomes possible and archaeology can be reinvented as a very
different discipline.
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