num_pages: 58
description: The Village of Blue Stone recreates one year in the life of an ancestral Puebloan community nine centuries ago. Beginning with the winter solstice, predicted with painstaking astronomical observation by Old Badger Claws—the Sun Watcher—we follow members of the different clans through their lives. Carefully researched vignettes bring to life both the people and the now silent ruins of the Chaco Culture of northwestern New Mexico. An afterword dramatizes the work of modern archaeologists hoping to unlock the secrets of the ruined village and connects the stories of the prehistoric people with their inheritors and descendants, the modern Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi Pueblo Indians.
language: English
title: The Village of Blue Stone
titlecomplete: The Village of Blue Stone
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing