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An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi. David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi-the name means "enemy ancestors" in Navajo-who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. In the summer of 1680, led by a visionary shaman named Popae, thePuebloans revolted. Before then the many different Pueblo villages had never acted in concert (and never would again). Now, in total secrecy they coordinated an attack, routing the rulers in Santa...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"The Navajo called them the Anasazi: an enigmatic race of southwestern cliff dwellers. For centuries, the sudden disappearance of this proud and noble people has baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter form an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing the border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn the astonishing legacy...
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Anthropological papers volume no. 117
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University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
1992
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English
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Canyon country volume no. 14
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Wasatch Publishers
Pub. Date
1995, c1982
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Rev. and updated.
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English
10) Indian trail
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Chooseco
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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You live with your tribe in a pueblo village. There has been no rain for a long time, and the crops you eat are dying. You have heard stories about spirits called kachinas that help people. Kachinas are so powerful they might even be able to change the weather. You must go find the kachinas, and save your village. Should you go alone, or bring friends to help you? The journey will be hard, and you must be brave. You choose what happens next!
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"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
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University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"In 1931 a group from Harvard University's Peabody Museum accomplished something that had never been attempted in the history of American archaeology: a six-week, four-hundred-mile horseback survey of Fremont prehistoric sites through some of the West's most rugged terrain. The expedition was successful, but a report on the findings was never completed. What should have been one of the great archaeological stories in American history was relegated...
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