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- Chaco's Northern Prodigies: Salmon, Aztec, and the Ascendancy of the Middle San Juan Region after AD 1100
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Utah Press
summary
In the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the ancient pueblo sites of Aztec and Salmon in the Middle San Juan region rapidly emerged as population and political centers during the closing stages of Chaco’s ascendancy. Some archaeologists have attributed the development of these centers to migration and colonization by people from Chaco Canyon. Others have suggested that the so-called Chacoan 'system' was largely the result of emulation of Chacoan characteristics by local groups in outlying areas. Research over the last five years in the Middle San Juan suggests that both of these processes were operating.
Work by two groups of contributors resulted in this synthetic volume, which interprets thirty-five years of research at Salmon Ruins. Chaco’s Northern Prodigies also puts recent work at Salmon Ruins in the context of Middle San Juan archaeological research. It is a timely synopsis of the archaeology of this region of the Southwest.
Table of Contents
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- List of Figures
- pp. vii-x
- List of Tables
- pp. xi-xii
- Part 1: Introduction
- Part 2: Salmon Pueblo
- Part 3: Material Culture Analyses: Salmon Pueblo
- Part 4: Material Culture Analyses: Across the Middle San Juan
- Part 5: New Research in the Middle San Juan Region
- Part 6: Synthetic Views of the Middle San Juan Region
- Part 7: From the Outside: Salmon and the Middle San Juan Region in a Larger Context
- 19. The Middle San Juan and Chaco Canyon
- pp. 366-376
- Part 8: Conclusion
- References
- pp. 389-428
- Contributors
- pp. 429-430
Additional Information
ISBN
9781607817918
Related ISBN(s)
9780874809251, 9781607816683
MARC Record
OCLC
503441320
Pages
455
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2011