House of Rain
Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across The 2006 American Southwest
Childs, Craig
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The greatest unsolved mystery of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's northwestern New Mexico) and built a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. The Anasazis' accomplishments--in agriculture, art, commerce, architecture, and engineering--were astounding, as remarkable in their way as those of Mayans in distant Central America. By the thirteenth century, however, the Anasazi were gone from the region. What brought about the rapid collapse of their civilization? Was it drought? pestilence? war? Naturalist Childs draws on the latest scholarly research, as well as on a lifetime of adventure and exploration in the most forbidding landscapes of the American Southwest , to shed new light on this compelling mystery.--From publisher description.Drawing on the latest scholarly research and archaeological evidence, the author examines the accomplishments of the Anasazi people of the American Southwest and speculates on why the culture vanished by the thirteenth century.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0316608173
ISBN(13-digit): 9780316608176
Dewey Decimal: 978.9/8201
Library of Congress: 2006019112
Book Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 496
Paper Weight (lb): 1.64 lb
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