House of rain : tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest

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House of rain : tracking a vanished civilization across the American Southwest / Craig Childs.

Childs, Craig, 1967- (Author).

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The greatest unsolved mystery of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's northwestern New Mexico) and built a flourishing cultural center that attracted pilgrims from far and wide, a vital crossroads of the prehistoric world. The Anasazis' accomplishments--in agriculture, art, commerce, architecture, and engineering--were astounding, as remarkable in their way as those of Mayans in distant Central America. By the thirteenth century, however, the Anasazi were gone from the region. What brought about the rapid collapse of their civilization? Was it drought? pestilence? war? Naturalist Childs draws on the latest scholarly research, as well as on a lifetime of adventure and exploration in the most forbidding landscapes of the American Southwest, to shed new light on this compelling mystery.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 0316608173
ISBN: 9780316608176
Physical Description: xiv, 496 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-482) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: The flood -- Chaco -- Chaco Canyon -- Fajada Butte and Casa Rinconada -- Pueblo Bonito -- The road north -- Pueblo Alto -- The Great North Road -- Kutz Canyon -- The Totah -- Aztec -- Moon watchers -- Chimney Rock -- High Mesa Verde region -- Southwest Colorado -- Northern San Juan Basin -- Great Sage Plain -- Mesa Verde -- Below Sleeping Ute -- Near Hovenweep -- Southeast Utah -- Canyonlands -- The head of Comb Ridge -- The Great Wall -- Comb Ridge -- Chinle Wash -- Northeast Arizona -- Near Monument Valley -- The last cliff dwellings of the Anasazi -- Mesas of Kayenta -- The Great Pueblos -- Antelope Mesa -- Painted Desert -- Little Colorado River -- East-central Arizona -- The clock -- At the edge of the forest -- Watchtower -- Mogollon Rim -- Along the Mogollon Rim -- Salado -- Below the Mogollon Rim -- The Highland Pueblos -- Kinishba and Grasshopper -- Land's End -- Point of Pines -- Southeast Arizona -- Bonita Creek -- Safford -- Mountain of shrines -- The Pinalenos -- Northern Mexico -- The far side of Mesoamerica -- Sierra San Luis -- Paquime -- Slope of the Sierra Madre -- The Eye of Tlaloc -- Sierra Madre occidental -- Farther into the Sierra Madre -- The story the Conquistadors told -- At the western foot of the Sierra Madre.

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