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"In this volume Steve Lekson argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, he advocates an entirely new approach, one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking. Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco Canyon, the book provides a historical analysis of how Southwest archaeology confined itself, how it can break out of those confines, and how it can proceed into the future. Lekson suggests that much of what we believe about the ancient Southwest should be radically revised. Looking past old preconceptions brings a different Chaco Canyon into view. More than an eleventh-century Pueblo ritual center, Chaco was a political capital with nobles and commoners, a regional economy, and deep connections to Mesoamerica. By getting the history right, a very different science of the ancient Southwest becomes possible and archaeology can be reinvented as a very different discipline."--Provided by publisher.

Chaco culture --- Archaeology --- Chaco phase --- Chacoan culture --- Chacoan phase --- Ancestral Pueblo culture --- Research --- History. --- Methodology. --- Southwest, New --- Chaco Canyon (N.M.) --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Sunbelt States

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Lekson is one of the few archaeologists who writes with a distinctive voice, one of the few who prefers to work without a net.... His account of political history of the ancient Southwest ... is a reconstruction that cannot be ignored by those interested in ancient Pueblo history and in the development of political complexity and social inequality.

Pueblo Indians --- Pueblo roads. --- Mimbres culture. --- Chaco culture. --- Antiquities. --- Politics and government. --- Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.) --- Aztec Ruins National Monument (N.M.) --- Casas Grandes Site (Mexico)

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Opgravingen. New Mexico. --- New Mexico. Oudheden (Precolombiaanse). --- Indianen van New Mexico. Oudheden. --- Chaco Canyon. Antiquités. --- Indiens du Nouveau Mexique. Antiquités. --- Nouveau Mexique. Antiquités précolombiennes. --- Fouilles. Nouveau Mexique. --- Chaco Canyon. Oudheden.