Pueblo Bonito: Center of the Chacoan World - Jill E. Neitzel - Books - Smithsonian Books - 9781588341310 - March 17, 2003
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Pueblo Bonito: Center of the Chacoan World Paper edition

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Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most famous ruin in New Mexico's Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Built by the ancestral Puebloan people some 1,000 years ago, the ruin testifies to one of the oldest and most complex societies ever discovered in North America. Study of the large corpus of data continues to generate new ideas about the people who lived their and their way of life.

This extensively illustrated volume commemorates the recent centennial of the first large-scale excavations at Pueblo Bonito, with leading experts writing on various aspects of the site, including its setting, construction sequence and labor requirements, possible astronomical orientations and related rituals, and burials. The book probes deeply for answers to these and other perplexing questions about Pueblo Bonito and its people.


172 pages, 14 BW PHO,67 BW ILLS,13 TABLES

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 17, 2003
ISBN13 9781588341310
Publishers Smithsonian Books
Pages 188
Dimensions 213 × 277 × 13 mm   ·   454 g
Language English