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Una Vidaessay 1986 • Gillespie, William B.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
Gillespie describes past archaeological work at Una Vida, the chronology of the Great House, its architecture, its masonry styles, its seven stages of construction, and the dates for that construction. Pictures of some of the rooms and masonry styles...Interpretating use of animal resources at prehistoric American Southwest communitiesessay 1994 • Szuter, Christine R. & Gillespie, William B.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
Szuter and Gillespie discuss the changes in analysis and interpretation of animal remains. In particular, field recovery techniques are better so we now know there was considerable exploitation of small mammals. In many sites in the Southwest the mea...Great Pueblo architecture of Chaco Canyon, New MexicoBook 1986 • Lekson, Stephen H. et al.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
Lekson describes the large pueblo ruins that are situated within Chaco Canyon within the National Historical Park. Through archival work and field survey Lekson presents an architectural study of twelve of the great houses. Until this time few of the...The outlier surveyBook 1983 • Powers, Robert P. et al.
Early Anasazi • North America > Southwest and Basin
Powers et al. conducted detailed surveys around three Chacoan outliers: Bis sa'ani, Peach Springs, and Pierre's. The focus of their investigation was to determine the relationship between the Chacoan outliers and the great house sites in Chaco Canyon...