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2) The visitant
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Anasazi mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
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At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150, the Anasazi empire was vast and sophisticated, unequaled until the arrival of the Europeans--and then they simply disappeared.Dr. Maureen Cole, one of the world's foremost physical anthropologists, is called in to examine and evaluate a mass grave discovered in New Mexico. The burial site contains nothing but the shattered skulls of women and children. As Dr. Cole works to unravel the mystery of these deaths, strange...
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"In northwestern New Mexico's Chaco Canyon lies a spectacular array of ruins. Like Stonehenge, they are both a monument to our prehistory and a cryptic puzzle. We know that in Chaco Canyon, one thousand years ago, there arose among the Pueblo people a great and culturally sophisticated civilization. But many questions remain: Just what function did Chaco Canyon fulfill? How great was its extent and influence? Why did its culture collapse?" "First...
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2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 29
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In the shattered Anasazi world, War Chief Browser and his second, Catkin, are horrified when a messenger from the Mogollon is murdered before divulging a secret concerning Poor Singer's prophecy. With his entire world in peril, Browser must determine who could want the young Mogollon warrior dead. But whom can he trust? The matron Blue Corn, or her conniving war chief? The Mogollon elder, who has his own desperate agenda? If they can find the answer,...
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©1981
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The excitement of archaeological discovery is captured in this detailed, well-illustrated account, which moves from the time when seventeenth-century Spanish soldiers first found the ruins at Chaco Canyon in northwest New Mexico through scientific analyses undertaken there in the 1970's.
10) Chaco canyon
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2014
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Explores Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, discussing excavations and draws upon archeological evidence to describe the cultural, political, and spiritual life of this civilization.
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©2000
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"At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time. A vast alliance of hamlets and towns integrated the region through economic and religious ties, and the whole system was interconnected with hundreds of miles of roads.
It took these Anasazi farmers more than seven centuries to create classic Chacoan civilization, which lasted...
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2011
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Based on a real life experience, Footsteps After The Fall is the story of young adventurer David Strauss' extraordinary near-death experience and daring self-rescue. While exploring the ancient Anasazi ruins of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, David is unexpectedly hit on the head by a falling rock and faces the possibility of his own death. He enters into a bone chilling self-rescue in the desert with an open head injury and concussion. Footsteps After...
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[2018]
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"In this volume Steve Lekson argues that, for over a century, southwestern archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong. Instead, he advocates an entirely new approach, one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking. Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco Canyon, the book provides a historical analysis of how Southwest archaeology confined...
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2007
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"In this thoughtful and picturesque work, Jack Campbell explores in elegant black and while photographs the wonderfully intricate structures that have come to define Chaco Canyon. David Stuart and Thomas Windes provide essays helping place the photographs within their historic contexts, and Katherine Kallestad has written captions that explain the images themselves. Together, they produce a line work for park visitors who want to better understand...
18) Chaco Canyon
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c2002.
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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.
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2017.
Description
An ancient conspiracy has been quietly burgeoning behind the bustle of the modern world. From the mounds of America, to the megalithic ruins on the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, the desiccated bones of dead giants are being systematically disentombed and secreted away to clandestine vaults for apocalyptic purposes. While occultists are attempting to harness the arcane necromancy of the Canaanites, genetic engineers are working feverishly...
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