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| Roads to Center Place: A Cultural Atlas of Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathryn Gabriel
Publisher: Johnson Books
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 784063
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1555660797
Dewey Decimal Number: 388.10978982
EAN: 9781555660796
ASIN: 1555660797
Publication Date: April 1991
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Condition: Cover has some stains and some folds, the top corner of the first 50 pages are bent, but once you hit page 50 it's smooth. This is a reading copy, not a coffee table book. Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Product Description
Within the canyon country of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Colorado, the Anasazi built an elaborate system of carefully engineered roadways. Many of the roads connect to sites in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and required an enormous amount of human labor to create. Nearly 200 miles of roads have been documented inthe past fifteen years by a handful of investigators, but the function and significance of these roads remain a mystery. Kathryn Gabriel, a journalist and researcher with a lifelong interest in Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi, examines Chacoan road systems, using analogies drawn from such diverse phenomena as the use of road metaphors in Pueblo Indian traditions and astronomical alignments of southwestern sites. "Roads to Center Place" is more than a guide to road corridors and archaeological features; it is a map to a lifeway.
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Very Informative and Very Dry September 19, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have always been fascinated by Chaco Canyon. I picked this book up one time when I was visiting there. I was looking forward to reading about the roads the Chacoans built. There are these massive roads that have been cleared away leading to/from Chaco canyon. They connect pueblo to pueblo. They go for miles and miles in straight lines. Although many of these are covered by weeds, these roads can be seen from the air and if you know where to look, they can be seen on the ground. No one is really sure what these roads were for- ceremonial? travel? This book is very interesting. However, I found it to be very dry reading. It really seemed to be directed towards a college class level rather than someone like myself who just wanted to learn more in laymen terms. If you can get over the dry reading, this is a great book. It is the only book that I have been able to find regarding the Chaco Canyon roads themselves (although many books mention them.) IF you find a better book regarding these mysterious roads, please drop me a note.
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