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The Chaco Anasazi
Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest

Part of New Studies in Archaeology

Author: Lynne Sebastian

Date Published: August 1996
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521574686

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In the tenth century AD, a remarkable cultural development took place in the harsh and forbidding San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. From small-scale, simply organized, prehistoric Pueblo societies, a complex and socially differentiated political system emerged that has become known as the Chaco Phenomenon. This study combines information on political evolution with archaeological data to produce a sociopolitically based model of the rise, florescence, and decline of the Chaco Phenomenon.
- Popular area of study among US undergraduates
- Written in very accessible way
- No competitive book available at this level
- Presents explanations of how the Chaco system evolved which are both innovative and conclusive
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"By succinctly summarizing much background information and citing major sources for additional data, she has managed to concentrate on an alternative to existing explanations for the growth and nature of the Chacoan cultural system and on analyzing the political processes of small-scale sedentary societies....a major contribution to developing explanatory models." American Antiquity
"In an easy-to-read and enjoyable book, especially the last two chapters, Sebastian has created a nontypological starting point for new, wide-ranging cultural-ecological-social-political debates about the nature and process of the Chacoan phenomenon....Geographers who work with prehistoric data will find this book to be, at least, thought provoking and, at best, a paradigm-revising addendum to their worldview of the prehistoric Southwest." The Geographical Review
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Product details
- Date Published: August 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521574686
- length: 196 pages
- dimensions: 248 x 175 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.398kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus. 3 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Chaco Phenomenon: background and history of research
3. Sociopolitical complexity and the Chaco system
4. Routes to sociopolitical power
5. Previous explanations for the Chaco Phenomenon
6. Relations of power, labor investment, and the political evolution of the Chaco system
7. Summary and new directions
Appendix: the computer simulation.
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Author
Lynne Sebastian