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Pub. Date
2020
Description
"Hounded by false accusations of murder, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family risk their lives to track down an unknown killer on the loose in a rugged canyon on the remote western edge of Mesa Verde National Park, where ancient stone villages and secret burial sites, abandoned centuries ago by the Ancestral Puebloan people, harbor artifacts so rare and precious they're worth killing over"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Climb the arid slopes of Colorado to discover the cave dwellings of the ancestral Pueblo Indians. Why were the homes built in the cliffs? How were they used and why did the Pueblo move? Travel along with scientists to find out how their discoveries shed light on the mysteries surrounding this important historical site. Unlocking the secrets of the past is just an artifact away!
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1888, two cowboys spotted something strange at the base of some rocky reddish-yellow cliffs in southwestern Colorado. There, carved into the side of a plateau, was a hidden village of buildings and towers filled with empty windows. The men climbed down to explore the strange cliff dwellings and found hidden staircases and hundreds of rooms, some filled with children's toys, bowls, axes--and even skeletons! Who were the mysterious people who had...
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Examines the organization of ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) communities in the Mesa Verde region of the American Southwest. Focuses on thirteenth-century settlement in the Sand Canyon locality of southwestern Colorado. Provides a detailed case study of community organization and change in the decades preceding the abandonment of the Mesa Verde region. Includes descriptions of excavated sites and comparative studies. Covers artifacts, pollen, and macrobotanical,...
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Follows a group of eighth-graders from Hannibal, Missouri as they attempt to help archaeologists at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado solve the mystery of why the Puebloan people who had lived in the area for over a thousand years suddenly left around A.D. 1300.
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Pub. Date
c1997
Description
A comprehensive history of archaeological research performed in the upper San Juan district, presented along with new interpretations of the role of the Chimney Rock communities in regional prehistory. Written for both the general public and scientific readers, recounts the initial work conducted at Chimney Rock and discusses related and subsequent work, presenting modern evalutions of the Anasazi occupation, the Ute Indian bands who claimed the territory,...
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