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DOCUMENT Citation Only William Chapman. Chad O. Braley.

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PROJECT Gary Brown.

This project includes architectural wall elevation images of individual rooms in the great house at Aztec West Ruin. Most of the images were photographed prior to backfilling efforts and during architectural documentation in West Ruin. Most of the images are composites of multiple photographs that were spliced together in Adobe Photoshop to reconstruct the entire wall elevation. Each individual image is a high-resolution, rectified photograph that was created either using a digital camera or...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michelle I. Turner.

Between 900 and 1140 CE, people at Chaco Canyon and throughout its region built multistory monumental structures with hundreds of rooms, known as great houses. This dissertation reports on recent archaeological testing on one such great house, the Aztec North great house at Aztec Ruins National Monument. I argue that Aztec North’s occupation represents an early, transitional period, as people previously not involved in the Chaco world made choices that increasingly brought them into Chaco’s...

PROJECT Santa Fe Institute.

This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.

DOCUMENT Citation Only E. S. Cassells.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Dungan. Sylviane Déderix. Barbara Mills. Kristin Safi. Devin White.

Chacoan great houses are considered "monumental," in the sense both of scale and of conveying meaning. Throughout the Chaco World, great houses and other large-scale buildings would have been associated to some degree with a larger, regional Chacoan ideology. At the same time, these structures vary and should be understood in the context of diverse local and regional histories. Visibility can be a key component of monumentality, and it has been suggested that great houses were frequently placed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from five kivas (West, Central, East, Northeast, and Great) in front of the Great House at Site 42SA22674 in Bluff, Utah, were analyzed for pollen and macrofloral remains. Flotation and botanic samples also were recovered from the Great House, areas of berm/midden around the Great House, the North Wall, and the Plaza. This site has several Chacoan settlement characteristics, including a multi-storied Great House surrounded by an earthen berm/trash midden, a Great Kiva, and a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson. Stephen Lekson. Ivan Sprajc. Kenneth Sassaman.

In this article, the authors seek to understand cosmological expressions in architecture and the built landscape in Mesoamerica, Northern Mexico, the US Southwest, and the US Southeast.