Roads to Center Place: A Cultural Atlas of Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi (1991)

by Kathryn Gabriel

Paperback, 1991

LCC

E99 P9 G32 1991

Description

Within the canyon country of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado, the Anasazi built an elaborate system of carefully engineered roadways. Many of the roads connect to sites in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and required an enormous amount of human labor to create, but the function and significance of these roads remain a mystery.

Publication

Johnson Books, Boulder (1991); First Edition

Subjects

Chaco Canyon (N.M.) Antiquities
Indian roads New Mexico Chaco Canyon Region
Pueblo Indians Antiquities
Pueblo astronomy
Southwest, New Antiquities

Tags

archaeology, Chaco Canyon, Anasazi, Ancestral Puebloans, New Mexico History, U.S. West

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