Chaco’s Northern Prodigies: Salmon, Aztec, and the Ascendancy of the Middle San Juan Region after AD 1100

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In the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the ancient pueblo sites of Aztec and Salmon in the Middle San Juan region hastily emerged as population and political centers all through the closing stages of Chaco’s ascendancy. Some archaeologists have attributed the development of these centers to migration and colonization by people from Chaco Canyon. Others have suggested that the so-referred to as Chacoan ‘system’ was once in large part the results of emulation of Chacoan characteristics by local groups in outlying areas. Research over the past five years in the Middle San Juan suggests that either one of these processes were operating.

Work by two groups of contributors resulted in this synthetic volume, which interprets thirty-five years of research at Salmon Ruins. Chaco’s Northern Prodigies also puts up to date work at Salmon Ruins in the context of Middle San Juan archaeological research. This is a timely synopsis of the archaeology of this region of the Southwest.
 

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