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How did Southwestern peoples make a living in the vast arid reaches
of the Great Basin? When and why did violence erupt in the Mesa
Verde region? Who were the Fremont people? How do some Hopis view
Chaco Canyon? These are a few of the topics addressed in Living the
Ancient Southwest. In this highly-illustrated anthology, general
readers will discover essays by eighteen anthropologist-writers.
They speak about the beauty and originality of Mimbres pottery, the
rock paintings in Canyon de Chelly, the history of the Wupatki
Navajos, O'odham songs describing ancient trails to the Pacific
Coast, and other topics relating to the deep indigenous history and
culture of the American Southwest.
Mesa Verde, with its stunning landscapes and cliff dwellings,
evokes all the romance of American archaeology. It has intrigued
researchers and visitors for more than a century. But "Mesa Verde"
represents more than cliff dwellings--its peoples created a culture
that thrived for a thousand years in Southwestern Colorado and
southeastern Utah. Archaeologists have discovered dozens of
long-buried hamlets and villages spread for miles across the Great
Sage Plain west and north of Mesa Verde. Only lately have these
sites begun to reveal their secrets. In recent decades,
archaeologists have been working intensively in the Mesa Verde
region to build the story of its ancestral Pueblo inhabitants. The
Mesa Verde World showcases new findings about the region's
prehistory, environment, and archaeological history, from newly
discovered reservoir systems on Mesa Verde to astronomical
alignments at Yellow Jacket Pueblo. Key topics include farming,
settlement, sacred landscapes, cosmology and astronomy, rock art,
warfare, migration, and contemporary Pueblo perspectives.
Initially stationed at the U.S. Army's counterintelligence
headquarters in Saigon, David Noble was sent north to launch the
army's first covert intelligence-gathering operation in Vietnam's
Central Highlands. Living in the region of the
Montagnards-Vietnam's indigenous tribal people, deemed critical to
winning the war-Noble documented strategic hamlets and Green Beret
training camps, where Special Forces teams taught the Montagnards
to use rifles rather than crossbows and spears. In this book, he
relates the formidable challenges he confronted in the course of
his work. Weaving together memoir, excerpts from letters written
home, and photographs, Noble's compelling narrative throws light on
a little-known corner of the Vietnam War in its early years-before
the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the deployment of combat units-and
traces his transformation from a novice intelligence agent and
believer in the war to a political dissenter and active protester.
Often overshadowed by the Ancestral Pueblo centers at Chaco Canyon
and Mesa Verde, the Middle San Juan is one of the most dynamic
territories in the pre-Hispanic Southwest, interacting with Chaco
Canyon and Mesa Verde as well the surrounding regions. This ancient
Puebloan heartland was instrumental in tying together Chaco and
Mesa Verde cultures to create a distinctive blend of old and new,
local and nonlocal. The contributors to this book attribute the
development of Salmon and Aztec to migration and colonization by
people from Chaco Canyon. Rather than fighting for control over the
territory, Chaco migrants and local leaders worked together to
build the great houses of Aztec and Salmon while maintaining their
identities and connections with their individual homelands. As a
result of this collaboration, the Middle San Juan can be seen as
one of the ancient Puebloan heartlands that made important
contributions to contemporary Puebloan society.
How did Southwestern peoples make a living in the vast arid reaches
of the Great Basin? When and why did violence erupt in the Mesa
Verde region? Who were the Fremont people? How do some Hopis view
Chaco Canyon? These are a few of the topics addressed in Living the
Ancient Southwest. In this highly-illustrated anthology, general
readers will discover essays by eighteen anthropologist-writers.
They speak about the beauty and originality of Mimbres pottery, the
rock paintings in Canyon de Chelly, the history of the Wupatki
Navajos, O'odham songs describing ancient trails to the Pacific
Coast, and other topics relating to the deep indigenous history and
culture of the American Southwest.
This book represents the culmination of David Grant Noble's
forty-year career as a fine arts photographer and writer. It
features seventy-five black-and-white photographs of the land,
people, and deep past of the Southwest, most published here for the
first time. Accompanying these beautiful images are personal
reflections interwoven with historical and anthropological
information. The moving passages reveal much about both the man and
the magnificent land that inspires his artistry. "The places we
know," Noble writes, "can be infused with memory and spirit, and
landscapes can have soul. The stories contained may speak of
creation, gods, mythic monsters, and heroes. They may hold
narratives reminding us of triumphs and defeats, sorrows and joys.
A place is more than a landform or an ecosystem; it has the
capacity to evoke emotion, transmit knowledge and wisdom, and even
show people how to live." These photographs and words portray the
land's soul, the artist's vision. Through them, the ancient
landscapes and peoples of the Southwest tell their tales, display
their beauty, remind us that we are only the most recent of many
who have lived and been inspired here.
Startling discoveries and impassioned debates have emerged from the
Chaco Phenomenon since the publication of New Light on Chaco Canyon
twenty years ago. This completely updated edition features
seventeen original essays, scores of photographs, maps, and site
plans, and the perspectives of archaeologists, historians, and
Native American thinkers. Key topics include the rise of early
great houses; the structure of agricultural life among the people
of Chaco Canyon; their use of sacred geography and astronomy in
organizing their spiritual cosmology; indigenous knowledge about
Chaco from the perspective of Hopi, Tewa, and Navajo peoples; and
the place of Chaco in the wider world of archaeology. For more than
a century archaeologists and others have pursued Chaco Canyon's
many and elusive meanings. In Search of Chaco brings these
explorations to a new generation of enthusiasts.
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