Kiowa County Public Library District

Aztec Ruins on the Animas is a lavishly illustrated account of the site - its history, excavation, preservation, and significance in relation to the Anasazi world of Chaco, Mesa Verde, and Salmon Ruins.

An overview of ancient Southwest history examines the hunting societies of the paleo-Indians, the rise of the great agricultural societies of the Anasazi, and the eventual decline of the Chaco culture.

Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.

Guarded by cliff, river, and desert, the more than sixty sites discussed in this revised and expanded edition of Ancient Ruins include the well-known--Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly--the remote--Grand Gulch, Kinishba Ruins--and the newly discovered--Casa Malpais, Chimney rock Pueblo. In addition to descriptions of each site, the author provides time-saving tips for the traveler, citing major highways, nearby towns and the facilities they offer, campgrounds,...

This study of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans surveys the rock art of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, northern Mexico, and West Texas from 2,000 B.C. to the nineteenth century.

The Laboratory of Anthropology, the Museum of New Mexico's anthropological research unit, presents selections from its famed Southwest Indian art and artifacts collection. Essays by noted scholars in the field illuminate the change and continuity over two thousand years of Native American basketry, textiles, pottery, and jewelry, while developing the connections between prehistoric, historic, and contemporary trends and traditions.

Nowhere in North America did pre-Columbian culture reach a more spectacular expression than at Chaco Canyon in the desert of what is now northwestern New Mexico. There, nine centuries ago, flourished a society that built monumental stone towns, great kivas, and an extensive network of roads leading to distant communities.

"Most people are familiar with the famous Precolumbian civilizations of the Aztecs and Maya of Mexico, but few realize just how advanced were contemporary cultures in the American Southwest. Here lie some of the most remarkable monuments of America's prehistoric past, such as Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. Visitors marvel at the impressive ruined pueblos and spectacular cliff dwellings, but often have little idea of the cultures that produced these...