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The Chaco Meridian - Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest (Paperback)
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The Chaco Meridian - Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest (Paperback)
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Southwestern archaeologists have long pondered the meaning and
importance of the monumental 11th-century structures in Chaco
Canyon. Now, Stephen H. Lekson offers a lively, provocative thesis,
which attempts to reconceptualize the meaning of Chaco and its
importance to the understanding of the entire Southwest. Chaco was
not alone, according to Lekson, but only one of three capitals of a
vast politically and economically integrated region, a network that
incorporated most of the Pueblo world and that had contact as far
away as Central America. A sophisticated astronomical tradition
allowed for astrally aligned monumental structures, great
ceremonial roads and-upon the abandonment of Chaco Canyon in the
12th century-the shift of the regional capital first to the Aztec
site, then Paquime, all located on precisely the same longitudinal
meridian. Lekson's ground-breaking synthesis of 500 years of
Southwestern prehistory-with its explanation of phenomena as
diverse as the Great North Road, macaw feathers, Pueblo mythology,
and the rise of kachina ceremonies-will be of great interest to all
those concerned with the prehistory and history of the American
Southwest.
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