Cliff Dwellings Speak (Sagstetters)

Price: $24.95
Publisher: BenchMark Publishing (2010)
Number of Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780964582422

An introduction to Southwestern archeology, specifically for casual visitors. The book will guide you around a site, giving you very real tools for understanding cliff dwellings-whether you are on a Mesa Verde National Park tour or backpacking in Mexico. The Cliff Dwellings Speak also introduces readers to the descendants of the cliff dwellers-the Pueblo people of the Southwest who still live there today. The book is highly illustrated with black and white photographs and engravings. Using copious illustrations, field Guides in some chapters show the reader what to look for, and what it might mean. The Cliff Dwellings Speak is very different from any other book regarding understanding the Greater American Southwest.

The Mesa Verde World: Explorations in Ancestral Pueblo Archaeology (David Grant Noble)

Price: $24.99
Publisher: SAR Press (2006)
Number of Pages: 182
ISBN: 978-1-930618-75-6

In recent decades, archaeologists have been working intensively in the Mesa Verde region to build the story of its ancestral Pueblo inhabitants. The Mesa Verde World showcases new findings about the regions prehistory, environment, and archaeological history, from newly discovered reservoir systems on Mesa Verde to astronomical alignments at Yellow Jacket Pueblo. Key topics include farming, settlement, sacred landscapes, cosmology and astronomy, rock art, warfare, migration, and contemporary Pueblo perspectives. Paperbound.

In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma (David Grant Noble)

Price: $27.99
Publisher: SAR Press (2004)
Number of Pages: 168
ISBN: 978-1-930618-42-8

This completely updated edition features seventeen original essays, scores of photographs, maps, and site plans, and the perspectives of archaeologists, historians, and Native American thinkers. Key topics include the rise of early great houses; the structure of agricultural life among the people of Chaco Canyon; their use of sacred geography and astronomy in organizing their spiritual cosmology; indigenous knowledge about Chaco from the perspective of Hopi, Tewa, and Navajo peoples; and the place of Chaco in the wider world of archaeology. Paperbound.

Those Who Came Before: Southwestern Archaeology in the National Park System (Robert and Florence Lister)

Price: $16.99
Publisher: Western National Parks Association (1990)
Number of Pages: 184
ISBN: 9780911408621

The American Southwest boasts more archaeological parks and monuments than any other region of the United States. These sites are all that remain of civilizations that rose and fell before Europeans ever set foot on American shores. First published in 1983, this summary of Southwest archaeology focuses on sites that are currently parks and monuments in the National Park System.

Troweling through Time: The First Century of Mesa Verdean Archaeology (Florence Lister)

Price: $24.99
Number of Pages: 332
ISBN: 9780826335029

There is scarcely a tract on the Colorado Plateau that does not have evidence of human occupation. Many of the richest remains have been found in the Mesa Verde Province, which covers southwestern Colorado and adjacent parts of New Mexico and Utah. The archaeology of the north edge of the Southwest began in 1849 with the discovery of Chaco Canyon by the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. By the end of the nineteenth century the form of archaeology known as pot hunting was well under way. In Troweling Through Time, Florence Lister tells the story of the archaeology of the area. In 1907 Edgar Hewett, director of the School of American Research, recruited three Harvard undergraduates to survey the ruins. These novices, Sylvanus Morley, Alfred Kidder, and John Gould Fletcher, were followed by other field workers whose names are just as legendary today. Lister explains what these people found and what it meant. She traces the story through the twentieth century, during which time archaeology became a science and women gained acceptance in the profession. The story goes through the work of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, which has taken the study of the Southwest beyond archaeology, inviting representatives of the regions modern tribes to offer their perspectives on the past. Listers presentation will be of interest to professional and amateur archaeologists, tourists, and historians.