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The Chaco Experience: Landscape and Ideology at the Center Place (A School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar Book)

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In a remote canyon in northwest New Mexico, thousand-year-old sandstone walls waver within the sunlight, stretching like ancient vertebrae against a turquoise sky. This storied place―Chaco Canyon―carries more than one layers of that means for Native Americans and archaeologists, writers and tourists, explorers and artists. Here, isolation, the arid climate, and dry-laid construction have preserved ruins which might be monuments to prehistoric creativity and perseverance. Chaco Canyon draws its power not only from the traditional architecture sheltering beneath its walls, but from the ever-changing light and the some distance-flung vistas of the Colorado Plateau. Light and shadow, stone and sky come together within the canyon. On the heart of this sky-filled landscape lie twelve massive great houses. The Chacoan landscape, with its formally constructed, carefully positioned architectural features, is charged with symbolism. On this volume, Ruth Van Dyke analyzes the meanings and experience of moving through this landscape to remove darkness from Chacoan beliefs and social relationships.

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