From pdh@u.washington.eduWed Jul 12 16:13:20 1995 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 09:31:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Preston Hardison Reply to: indknow@u.washington.edu To: indknow@u.washington.edu Subject: 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 From josephon@admin.stedwards.eduWed Jul 12 16:32:53 1995 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 95 10:37:15 CDT From: "Joseph M. O'Neal" Reply to: indknow@u.washington.edu To: indknow@u.washington.edu Subject: Anasazi culture Can anyone recommend a good book dealing with the Anasazi? This is for a friend of mine, who has already read _Cycles of Conquest_ and _When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away_. He needs something that is challenging but not technical archeology. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. You can reply directly to me. -- Joseph M. O'Neal 512-448-8745 St. Edward's University FAX: 512-448-8767 Austin, TX 78704 josephon@admin.stedwards.edu ****************************************************************************** A sad fact, of course, about adult life is that you see the very things you'll never adapt to coming toward you on the horizon. You see them as the problems they are, you worry like hell about them, you make provisions, take precautions, fashion adjustments, you tell youself you'll have to change your way of doing things. Only you don't. You can't. Somehow it's already to late. And maybe it's even worse than that; maybe the thing you see coming from far away is not the real thing, the thing that scares you, but its aftermath. And what you've feared will happen has already taken place. . . And in that very way our life gets over before we know it. We miss it. And like the poet said: "The ways we miss our lives are life." Richard Ford, Independence Day. ****************************************************************************** From FLSilver@aol.comWed Jul 12 16:42:46 1995 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 01:55:04 -0400 From: FLSilver@aol.com Reply to: indknow@u.washington.edu To: indknow@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Anasazi culture July 10, 1995 I do hope you'll share recommendations you get regarding the Anasazi. I am especially interested in the math and science connections in the Anasazi culture. The video titled The Sun Dagger, or something very close to that designation, is very informative on some math and science aspects of Anasazi culture. May I suggest that you write the Mesa Verde Park headquarters in Colorado? Many books are on the shelves there. I think staff there would very kindly share with you.