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The Greater Chaco Landscape
Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy
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National Park Service
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Edited by:
Ruth M. Van Dyke
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Funded by:
National Park Service
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
Since the mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate potential conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. The Greater Chaco Landscape examines both the imminent threat posed by energy extraction and new ways of understanding Chaco Canyon and Chaco-era great houses and associated communities from southeast Utah to west-central New Mexico in the context of landscape archaeology.
Contributors analyze many different dimensions of the Chacoan landscape and present the most effective, innovative, and respectful means of studying them, focusing on the significance of thousand-year-old farming practices; connections between early great houses outside the canyon and the rise of power inside it; changes to Chaco’s roads over time as observed in aerial imagery; rock art throughout the greater Chaco area; respectful methods of examining shrines, crescents, herraduras, stone circles, cairns, and other landscape features in collaboration with Indigenous colleagues; sensory experiences of ancient Chacoans via study of the sightlines and soundscapes of several outlier communities; and current legal, technical, and administrative challenges and options concerning preservation of the landscape.
An unusually innovative and timely volume that will be available both in print and online, with the online edition incorporating video chapters presented by Acoma, Diné, Zuni, and Hopi cultural experts filmed on location in Chaco Canyon, The Greater Chaco Landscape is a creative collaboration with Native voices that will be a case study for archaeologists and others working on heritage management issues across the globe. It will be of interest to archaeologists specializing in Chaco and the Southwest, interested in remote sensing and geophysical landscape-level investigations, and working on landscape preservation and phenomenological investigations such as viewscapes and soundscapes.
Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky, G. B. Cornucopia, Timothy de Smet, Sean Field, Richard A. Friedman, Dennis Gilpin, Presley Haskie, Tristan Joe, Stephen H. Lekson, Thomas Lincoln, Michael P. Marshall, Terrance Outah, Georgiana Pongyesva, Curtis Quam, Paul F. Reed, Octavius Seowtewa, Anna Sofaer, Julian Thomas, William B. Tsosie Jr., Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Ernest M. Vallo Jr., Carla R. Van West, Ronald Wadsworth, Robert S. Weiner, Thomas C. Windes, Denise Yazzie, Eurick Yazzie
Contributors analyze many different dimensions of the Chacoan landscape and present the most effective, innovative, and respectful means of studying them, focusing on the significance of thousand-year-old farming practices; connections between early great houses outside the canyon and the rise of power inside it; changes to Chaco’s roads over time as observed in aerial imagery; rock art throughout the greater Chaco area; respectful methods of examining shrines, crescents, herraduras, stone circles, cairns, and other landscape features in collaboration with Indigenous colleagues; sensory experiences of ancient Chacoans via study of the sightlines and soundscapes of several outlier communities; and current legal, technical, and administrative challenges and options concerning preservation of the landscape.
An unusually innovative and timely volume that will be available both in print and online, with the online edition incorporating video chapters presented by Acoma, Diné, Zuni, and Hopi cultural experts filmed on location in Chaco Canyon, The Greater Chaco Landscape is a creative collaboration with Native voices that will be a case study for archaeologists and others working on heritage management issues across the globe. It will be of interest to archaeologists specializing in Chaco and the Southwest, interested in remote sensing and geophysical landscape-level investigations, and working on landscape preservation and phenomenological investigations such as viewscapes and soundscapes.
Contributors: R. Kyle Bocinsky, G. B. Cornucopia, Timothy de Smet, Sean Field, Richard A. Friedman, Dennis Gilpin, Presley Haskie, Tristan Joe, Stephen H. Lekson, Thomas Lincoln, Michael P. Marshall, Terrance Outah, Georgiana Pongyesva, Curtis Quam, Paul F. Reed, Octavius Seowtewa, Anna Sofaer, Julian Thomas, William B. Tsosie Jr., Phillip Tuwaletstiwa, Ernest M. Vallo Jr., Carla R. Van West, Ronald Wadsworth, Robert S. Weiner, Thomas C. Windes, Denise Yazzie, Eurick Yazzie
Author / Editor information
Ruth M. Van Dyke is professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, SUNY. She is an archaeologist specializing in the North American Southwest, and her research interests include landscape, architecture, power, memory, phenomenology, and visual representation. She has written some fifty articles and book chapters, and she is author or editor of six books, including Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology and The Chaco Experience. She directs projects on the Chaco landscape in northwest New Mexico and on historic Alsatian immigration in Texas.Carrie C. Heitman is associate professor of anthropology and the associate director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She has helped build the Chaco Research Archive (chacoarchive.org, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) and the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (salmonpueblo.org, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities). Her publications include the coedited volume Chaco Revisited as well as articles on religion/ritual, architecture, kinship, gender and social inequality, museum anthropology, ethics and informatics, and methods of data integration in anthropology.
Reviews
“This synthetic overview goes beyond addressing scholars who study Chaco and provides all who care about the preservation of the Chacoan archaeological record with a comprehensive overview of the Chaco regional landscape.”
—Mark Varien, Executive Vice President of the Research Institute at Crow Canyon
“As a new statement on Chaco, with updated data, interpretations, and methodologically/theoretically sound contributions, this volume will be an important addition to the corpus of research on and about Chaco and its larger environs.”
—Andrew Duff, Washington State University
“The Greater Chaco Landscape is an innovative addition to Chacoan scholarship that comes at a time when these priceless cultural resources are in need of better efforts of preservation and understanding.”
—American Archeology
"[The Greater Chaco Landscape] successfully weaves together science, humanities, and resource management and presents new insights into a prominent chapter in the prehistory of the North American Southwest."
—New Mexico Historical Review
—Mark Varien, Executive Vice President of the Research Institute at Crow Canyon
“As a new statement on Chaco, with updated data, interpretations, and methodologically/theoretically sound contributions, this volume will be an important addition to the corpus of research on and about Chaco and its larger environs.”
—Andrew Duff, Washington State University
“The Greater Chaco Landscape is an innovative addition to Chacoan scholarship that comes at a time when these priceless cultural resources are in need of better efforts of preservation and understanding.”
—American Archeology
"[The Greater Chaco Landscape] successfully weaves together science, humanities, and resource management and presents new insights into a prominent chapter in the prehistory of the North American Southwest."
—New Mexico Historical Review
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Figures, Videos, and Tables
xi - I Introduction and History
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1 The Greater Chaco Landscape Volume
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2 Chaco Landscapes
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3 Landscapes, Horticulture, and the Early Chacoan Bonito Phase
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4 Linear Cultural Alignments in the Western San Juan Basin
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5 Rock Art in the Chaco Landscape
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6 Enigmatic Rock Features
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7 Acoma (Haaku) Perspectives
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8 Diné (Navajo) Perspectives
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9 Hopi Perspectives
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10 A:shiwi (Zuni) Perspectives
188 - IV Experiencing the Landscape
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11 Viewscapes and Soundscapes
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12 Night Skies
224 - V Geospatial Investigations and Big Data
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13 LiDAR and 3-D Digital Modeling Reveal the Greater Chaco Landscape
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14 The Impact of Digital Data Ecosystems on Our Understanding of the Greater Chacoan Cultural Landscape
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15 The Protection of Monuments and Landscapes in Britain
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16 Protecting the Greater Chaco Landscape
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17 What Can Be Discovered from Chaco Archaeology?
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Appendix A Chaco Landscapes
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Index
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November 6, 2024
eBook ISBN:
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