num_pages: 195
description: In the tenth century AD a remarkable cultural development took place in the harsh and forbidding San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. From small-scale simply organized prehistoric Pueblo societies a complex and socially differentiated political system emerged that has become known as the Chaco Phenomenon. This study combines information on political evolution with archaeological data to produce a sociopolitically based model of the rise florescence and decline of the Chaco Phenomenon.
language: English
title: The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest
publisher: Cambridge University Press