Stephen H. Lekson

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The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon

An Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center

School for Advanced Research Press

The site of a great Ancestral Pueblo center in the 11th and 12th centuries AD, the ruins in Chaco Canyon look like a city to some archaeologists, a ceremonial center to others. Chaco and the people who created its monumental great houses, extensive roads, and network of outlying settlements remain an enigma in American archaeology.

  • Copyright year: 2006
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A History of the Ancient Southwest

School for Advanced Research Press

According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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Canyon Spirits

Beauty and Power in the Ancestral Puebloan World

Photographs by John L. Ninnemann
University of New Mexico Press

Eighty-five black-and-white photos and accompanying essays share the beauty of the canyons and mesas of the Colorado Plateau and the history of the resourceful inhabitants.

  • Copyright year: 2005
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Enduring Motives

The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America

Edited by Linea Sundstrom and Warren DeBoer; Introduction by Linea Sundstrom and Warren DeBoer
University of Alabama Press

Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.

  • Copyright year: 2012
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