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Re: Anasazi culture
For some historical accounts of the Anasazi, you might want to see:
Cordell, Linda S. (1984). Prehistory of the Southwest. Academic Press,
Orlando, Florida. (There are also some more recent volumes
with her as editor or co-editor that might be useful).
Fish, Szsanne K. and Fish, Paul R. (eds.)(1984). Prehistoric Agricultural
Strategies in the Southwest. Anthropological Research Papers No. 33.
Arizona State University, Tempe. (See David E. Buge: Prehistoric
subsistence strategies in theChama Region, Northern New Mexico).
Gumerman, George J. (ed.)(1993). Themes in Southwest Prehistory.
Advanced Seminar Series. School of American Research Press, Santa
Fe, New Mexico. (there is also a good companion volume in this
series that doesn't have anything on the Anisazi, but is worth
reading: Crumley, Carol L. (ed.)(1994). Historical Ecology:
Cultural Knowledge and Changing Landscapes).
Hillel, Daniel (1991). Out of the Earth: Civilization and the Life of
the Soil. Free Press, New York. (just a few pages on the Anisazi,
but a very well written extended essay on water and the soil,
with many examples of traditional soil and water management,
concentrating on the Middle East. Dr. Hillel has also written
a new, more technical book, of which the name escapes me).
Killion, Thomas W. (ed.)(1992). Gardens of Prehistory: The Archaeology of
Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica. The University of
Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. (There is a short section on the Anasazi
in T.D. Maxwell and K.F. Anschuetz: The Southwestern Ethnographic
Record and Prehistoric Agricultural Diversity).
Lekson, S.H., T.C. Windes, J.R. Stein and W.J. Judge (1988). The
Chaco Canyon Community. Scientific American 259(1988): 100-109.
Hope this helps,
Preston Hardison
pdh@u.washington.edu