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Pueblo Bonito

Center of the Chacoan World

Jill E. Neitzel

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English
Smithsonian Books
17 March 2003
Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most famous ruin in New Mexico's Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Built by the ancestral Puebloan people some 1,000 years ago, the ruin testifies to one of the oldest and most complex societies ever discovered in North America. Study of the large corpus of data continues to generate new ideas about the people who lived their and their way of life.

This extensively illustrated volume commemorates the recent centennial of the first large-scale excavations at Pueblo Bonito, with leading experts writing on various aspects of the site, including its setting, construction sequence and labor requirements, possible astronomical orientations and related rituals, and burials. The book probes deeply for answers to these and other perplexing questions about Pueblo Bonito and its people.
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Imprint:   Smithsonian Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 277mm,  Width: 213mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781588341310
ISBN 10:   1588341313
Pages:   188
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jill E. Neitzel is a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. She is the editor of Great Towns and Regional Polities in the Prehistoric American Southwest and Southeast.

Reviews for Pueblo Bonito: Center of the Chacoan World

Youngsters can observe, month by month, the first year of a little one's life in this ter tribute to babyhood . . .-- Publishers Weekly, starred review<br>


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