This reappraisal of archaeology conducted at the Saige-McFarland site presents for the first time a substantial body of comparative data from a Mimbres period site in the Gila drainage. Lekson offers a new and controversial interpretation of the Mimbres sequence, reintroducing the concept of the Mangas phase first proposed by the Gila Pueblo investigations of the 1930s and demonstrating a more gradual shift from pithouse to pueblo occupance than has been suggested previously.

Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico (Volume 53) (Anthropological Papers)

History

Lekson, Stephen H.

Americas

University of Arizona Press

Salado is an enigma of the past. One of the most spectacular cultures of the ancient Southwest, its brilliant polychrome pottery has been subjected to varied interpretations, from religious cult to artistic horizon. Stephen Lekson now uses data from two Salado sites—a large pueblo and a small farmstead—to clarify long-standing misconceptions about this culture. By combining analysis of the large whole-vessel collection at Dutch Ruin with the scientific excavation of Villareal II, a picture of Salado emerges that enables Lekson to evaluate previous competing theories and propose that Salado represents a major fourteenth-century migration of Pueblo peoples into the Chihuahuan deserts. Lekson demonstrates that late, short-lived Salado farmsteads—difficult to identify archaeologically in areas with larger Mimbres concentrations—coexisted with larger Salado towns, and he argues that Salado in the Upper Gila region appears as a substantial in-migration of Mogollon Uplands populations into what was a vacant river valley. Throughout the fourteenth century, Salado communities in the Upper Gila were integrated into the larger Salado horizon and were closely connected to Casas Grandes, as indicated by the export of serpentine to the city of Paquimé and the occurrence of Casas Grandes pottery at Upper Gila Salado sites. The book includes illustrations of 71 vessels from Dutch Ruin plus a full-color frontispiece. Through analysis of these two sites, Lekson has taken a large step toward clearing up the mystery of Salado. His work will be welcomed by all who study the movements of peoples in the prehispanic Southwest.

Salado Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico (Volume 67) (Anthropological Papers)

Ancient Land Ancestral Places: Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest by Stephen H. Lekson.

Ancient Land Ancestral Places: Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest

Museum of New Mexico Pr

Dust cover in perfect condition, photographs in rich color, illustrations clear. Binding is tight and pages are clean and unbent.

Ancient Land, Ancestral Places: Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest

Swentzell, Rina

Book by Peck, Mary, Stein, John R., Ortiz, Simon J., Lekson, Stephen H.

Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World

ORTIZ, Simon J.

Peck, Mary

Stein, John R.

Arts & Photography

Book by Lekson, Stephen, Stein, John R., Ortiz, Simon J.

Photography & Video

In this volume Steve Lekson argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, he advocates an entirely new approach—one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking. Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco Canyon, the book provides a historical analysis of how Southwest archaeology confined itself, how it can break out of those confines, and how it can proceed into the future. Lekson suggests that much of what we believe about the ancient Southwest should be radically revised. Looking past old preconceptions brings a different Chaco Canyon into view: more than an eleventh-century Pueblo ritual center, Chaco was a political capital with nobles and commoners, a regional economy, and deep connections to Mesoamerica. By getting the history right, a very different science of the ancient Southwest becomes possible and archaeology can be reinvented as a very different discipline. Notes https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/04/Lekson-Notes.pdf

A Study of Southwestern Archaeology

University of Utah Press

According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works would have us believe that nothing much ever happened in the ancient Southwest, this book argues that the region experienced rises and falls, kings and commoners, war and peace, triumphs and failures. In this view, Chaco Canyon was a geopolitical reaction to the "Colonial Period" Hohokam expansion and the Hohokam "Classic Period" was the product of refugee Chacoan nobles, chased off the Colorado Plateau by angry farmers. Far to the south, Casas Grandes was a failed attempt to create a Mesoamerican state, and modern Pueblo people--with societies so different from those at Chaco and Casas Grandes--deliberately rejected these monumental, hierarchical episodes of their past.
From the publisher: The second printing of A History of the Ancient Southwest has corrected the errors noted below.SAR Press regrets an error on Page 72, paragraph 4 (also Page 275, note 2) regarding "absolute dates." "50,000 dates" was incorrectly published as "half a million dates." Also P. 125, lines 13-14: "Between 21,000 and 27,000 people lived there" should read "Between 2,100 and 2,700 people lived there."

A History of the Ancient Southwest

School for Advanced Research Press

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Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico (Volume 53) (Anthropological Papers)

Salado Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico (Volume 67) (Anthropological Papers)

Ancient Land Ancestral Places: Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest

Ancient Land, Ancestral Places: Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest

Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World

Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World

A Study of Southwestern Archaeology

A History of the Ancient Southwest