The Casas Grandes World
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The Casas Grandes World
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Author : Curtis F. Schaafsma
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Casas Grandes World written by Curtis F. Schaafsma and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
A re-evaluation of the extent, history, and meaning of the Casas Grandes site and its far-reaching connections.
Ancient Paquim And The Casas Grandes World
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Author : Paul E. Minnis
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2015-03-12
Ancient Paquim And The Casas Grandes World written by Paul E. Minnis and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-12 with Social Science categories.
Paquimé, the great multistoried pre-Hispanic settlement also known as Casas Grandes, was the center of an ancient region with hundreds of related neighbors. It also participated in massive networks that stretched their fingers through northwestern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. Paquimé is widely considered one of the most important and influential communities in ancient northern Mexico and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World, edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen, summarizes the four decades of research since the Amerind Foundation and Charles Di Peso published the results of the Joint Casas Grandes Expeditions in 1974. The Joint Casas Grandes Expedition revealed the extraordinary nature of this site: monumental architecture, massive ball courts, ritual mounds, over a ton of shell artifacts, hundreds of skeletons of multicolored macaws and their pens, copper from west Mexico, and rich political and religious life with Mesoamerican-related images and rituals. Paquimé was not one sole community but was surrounded by hundreds of outlying villages in the region, indicating a zone that sustained thousands of inhabitants and influenced groups much farther afield. In celebration of the Amerind Foundation’s seventieth anniversary, sixteen scholars with direct and substantial experience in Casas Grandes archaeology present nine chapters covering its economy, chronology, history, religion, regional organization, and importance. The two final chapters examine Paquimé in broader geographic perspectives. This volume sheds new light on Casas Grandes/Paquimé, a great town well-adapted to its physical and economic environment that disappeared just before Spanish contact.
Signs Of The Casas Grandes Shamans
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Author : Christine S. VanPool
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Signs Of The Casas Grandes Shamans written by Christine S. VanPool and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
The people of Casas Grandes in northern Chihuahua, Mexico commemorated their religious system by creating striking polychrome pots with naturalistic designs. Looking through this window into Casas Grandes cosmology, the authors of this interesting volume find a world centered on shamans and supernatural creatures, challenging long-held beliefs about Southwestern religion and forcing a reconsideration of the importance of shamanism in the development of social differentiation in societies around the world.
The Joyce Well Site
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Author : James M. Skibo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Joyce Well Site written by James M. Skibo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
This volume contains excavation reports from the Joyce Well site in the boot heel of New Mexico where the Casas Grandes or Paquime culture is believed to have lived from AD 1200 to 1400.
Discovering Paquim
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Author : Paul E. Minnis
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Discovering Paquim written by Paul E. Minnis and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Social Science categories.
In the mid-1560s Spanish explorers marched northward through Mexico to the farthest northern reaches of the Spanish empire in Latin America. They beheld an impressive site known as Casas Grandes in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Row upon row of walls featured houses and plazas of what was once a large population center, now deserted. Called Casas Grandes (Spanish for “large houses”) but also known as Paquimé, the prehistoric archaeological site may have been one of the first that Spanish explorers encountered. The Ibarra expedition, occurring perhaps no more than a hundred years after the site was abandoned, contained a chronicler named Baltasar de Obregón, who gave to posterity the first description of Paquimé: ". . . many houses of great size, strength, and height . . . six and seven stories, with towers and walls like fortresses for protection and defense against the enemies who undoubtedly used to make war on its inhabitants . . . large and magnificent patios paved with enormous and beautiful stones resembling jasper . . ." Casas Grandes, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is under the purview of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, which oversees a world-class museum near the ruins. Paquimé visitors can learn about the site’s history and its excavations, which were conducted under the pioneering research of Charles Di Peso and Eduardo Contreras Sánchez and their colleagues from INAH and the Amerind Foundation. Based on a half century of modern research since the Joint Casas Grandes Project, this book explores the recent discoveries about important site and its neighbors. Drawing the expertise of fourteen scholars from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, who have long worked in the region, the chapters revel new insights about Paquimé and its influence, bringing this fascinating place and its story to light.
Secrets Of Casas Grandes
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Author : Melissa S. Powell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Secrets Of Casas Grandes written by Melissa S. Powell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Casas Grandes Site (Mexico) categories.
Represents a photographic Who's Who of contemporary Santa Fe women.
Casas Grandes And Its Hinterland
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Author : Michael E. Whalen
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2001-03
Casas Grandes And Its Hinterland written by Michael E. Whalen and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03 with Social Science categories.
"Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis have worked extensively in the Casas Grandes area and now offer new research arguing that it was not as similar to the highly developed complex societies of Mesoamerica as has been thought. In the first book of its kind in 25 years, the authors analyze settlement pattern data from more than 300 communities in the area surrounding Casas Grandes to show that its Medio period culture was a local development."--BOOK JACKET.
Religious Transformation In The Late Pre Hispanic Pueblo World
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Author : Donna M. Glowacki
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Religious Transformation In The Late Pre Hispanic Pueblo World written by Donna M. Glowacki and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
The mid-thirteenth century AD marks the beginning of tremendous social change among Ancestral Pueblo peoples of the northern US Southwest that foreshadow the emergence of the modern Pueblo world. Regional depopulations, long-distance migrations, and widespread resettlement into large plaza-oriented villages forever altered community life. Archaeologists have tended to view these historical events as adaptive responses to climatic, environmental, and economic conditions. Recently, however, more attention is being given to the central role of religion during these transformative periods, and to how archaeological remains embody the complex social practices through which Ancestral Pueblo understandings of sacred concepts were expressed and transformed. The contributors to this volume employ a wide range of archaeological evidence to examine the origin and development of religious ideologies and the ways they shaped Pueblo societies across the Southwest in the centuries prior to European contact. With its fresh theoretical approach, it contributes to a better understanding of both the Pueblo past and the anthropological study of religion in ancient contexts This volume will be of interest to both regional specialists and to scholars who work with the broader dimensions of religion and ritual in the human experience.
Flower Worlds
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Author : Michael Mathiowetz
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Flower Worlds written by Michael Mathiowetz and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with History categories.
The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas.Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create an interdisciplinary understanding of floral realms that extend at least 2,500 years in the past.
Hinterlands To Cities
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Author : Matthew C. Pailes
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2022-03-14
Hinterlands To Cities written by Matthew C. Pailes and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-14 with Social Science categories.
This approachable book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series is a comprehensive synthesis of Northwest Mexico from the US border to the Mesoamerican frontier. Filling a vital gap in the regional literature, it serves as an essential reference not only for those interested in the specific history of this area of Mexico but western North America writ large. A period-by-period review of approximately 14,000 years reveals the dynamic connections that knitted together societies inhabiting the Sea of Cortez coast, the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts, and the Sierra Madre Occidental. Networks of interaction spanned these diverse ecological, topographical, and cultural terrains in the millennia following the demise of the megafauna. The authors provide a fresh perspective that refutes depictions of the Northwest as a simple filter or conduit of happenings to the north or south, and they highlight the role local motivations and dynamics played in facilitating continental-scale processes.