Pueblo Del Arroyo (Site Name Keyword)

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Casas Grandes and the Chaco Canyon Cultures (1975)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

As early as 1936, Edgar L. Hewett suggested that there might have been some sort of temporal relationship between Casas Grandes, in Chihuahua, Mexico, and such Chaco settlements as Pueblo Bonito, del Arroyo, and Chetro Ketl, in New Mexico. He recognized the obvious differences in terms of ceramics, architectonics, and historical background which marked these two entities, but still felt that there was some common time denominator. Most of his contemporaries, however, believed that the city of...


Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephen H. Lekson. William B. Gillespie. Thomas C. Windes.

After a century of excavation and survey in Chaco Canyon, a new study of Chacoan architecture should be redundant. Oddly enough, this is not true. The most extensive field studies of Chacoan building were the earliest (Holsinger 1901; Jackson 1878), undertaken before the development of tree-ring dating; while the most important dendrochronological studies (Bannister 1965; Robinson et al. 1974) were accomplished without the benefit of concurrent fieldwork. Chaco's archaeological literature,...