Contents
Preface - John Kantner and Nancy M. Mahoney
Acknowledgments
1. Chacoan Archaeology and Great House Communities - Nancy M. Mahoney and John Kantner
Part 1: Defining the Chacoan Great House Communities
2. Redefining the Scale of Chacoan Communities - Nancy M. Mahoney
3. Peach Springs Revisited: Surface Recording and Excavation on the South Chaco Slope, New Mexico - Dennis Gilpin and David E. Purcell
4. Surnrise, Sunset: Sedentism and Mobility in the Chaco East Community - Thomas C. Windes, Rachel M. Anderson, Brian K. Johnson and Cheryl A. Ford
Part 2: The Relationship Between Great House Communities and Chaco Canyon
5. Chaco Outlier or Backwoods Pretender? A Provincial Great House at Edge of the Cedars Ruin, Utah - Wiliam B. Hurst
6. Chacoan and Local Influences in Three Great House Communities in the Northern San Juan Region - Joseph Peter Jalbert and Catherine Cameron
7. Chacoan Ritual Landscapes: The View From Red Mesa Valley - Ruth M. Van Dyke
8. Notes from the Edge: Settlement Pattern Changes at the Guadalupe Community - Stephen R. Durand and Kathy Roler Durand
Part 3: Economic and Sociopolitical Relationship Outside of Chaco Canyon
9. Household Economic Autonomy and Great House Development in the Lowry Area - James W. Kendrick and W. James Judge
10. Interaction Among Great House Communities: An Elemental Analysis of Cibolan Ceramics - John Kantner, Nathan Bower, Jeffrey Ladwig, Jacob Perlitz, Steve Hata, and Darren Greve
Part 4: Great House Communities in the Prehistory of the American Southwest
11. Communities and the Chacoan Regional System - Mark D. Varien
12. Great! Stephen H. Lekson
Refernces
Index
Abstract, Resumen