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The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place
Ruth M. Van Dyke
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Description for The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place
Paperback. In this volume, Ruth Van Dyke analyzes the meanings and experience of moving through this landscape to illuminate Chacoan beliefs and social relationships. Num Pages: 314 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 510.
In a remote canyon in northwest New Mexico, thousand-year-old sandstone walls waver in the sunlight, stretching like ancient vertebrae against a turquoise sky. This storied place--Chaco Canyon--carries multiple layers of meaning for Native Americans and archaeologists, writers and tourists, explorers and artists. Here, isolation, the arid climate, and dry-laid construction have preserved ruins that are monuments to prehistoric creativity and perseverance. Chaco Canyon draws its power not only from the ancient architecture sheltering beneath its walls, but from the ever-changing light and the far-flung vistas of the Colorado Plateau. Light and shadow, stone and sky come together in the canyon. ... Read more
In a remote canyon in northwest New Mexico, thousand-year-old sandstone walls waver in the sunlight, stretching like ancient vertebrae against a turquoise sky. This storied place--Chaco Canyon--carries multiple layers of meaning for Native Americans and archaeologists, writers and tourists, explorers and artists. Here, isolation, the arid climate, and dry-laid construction have preserved ruins that are monuments to prehistoric creativity and perseverance. Chaco Canyon draws its power not only from the ancient architecture sheltering beneath its walls, but from the ever-changing light and the far-flung vistas of the Colorado Plateau. Light and shadow, stone and sky come together in the canyon. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SAR Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, United States
ISBN
9781930618763
SKU
V9781930618763
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Ref
99-1
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