Author: Charles Corradino di PesoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Casas Grandes and the Gran Chichimeca
Author: Charles Corradino di PesoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Casas Grandes
Author: Charles Corradino Di PesoPublisher:
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Category : Casas Grandes (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The Gran Chichimeca
Author: Charles Corradino Di PesoPublisher:
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Category : Chichimecs
Languages : en
Pages :
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Casa Grandes and the Gran Chichimeca
Author: Charles Corradino Di PesoPublisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Casas Grandes
Author: Charles C. Di PesoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780873580564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Casas Grandes
Author: Charles Corradino di PesoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Casas Grandes: Medio period
Author: Charles Corradino Di PesoPublisher:
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Category : Casas Grandes Site (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Discovering Paquimé
Author: Paul E. MinnisPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816535485
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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In the mid-1560s Spanish explorers marched northward through Mexico to the farthest northern reaches of the Spanish empire in Latin America. They beheld an impressive site known as Casas Grandes in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Row upon row of walls featured houses and plazas of what was once a large population center, now deserted. Called Casas Grandes (Spanish for “large houses”) but also known as Paquimé, the prehistoric archaeological site may have been one of the first that Spanish explorers encountered. The Ibarra expedition, occurring perhaps no more than a hundred years after the site was abandoned, contained a chronicler named Baltasar de Obregón, who gave to posterity the first description of Paquimé: ". . . many houses of great size, strength, and height . . . six and seven stories, with towers and walls like fortresses for protection and defense against the enemies who undoubtedly used to make war on its inhabitants . . . large and magnificent patios paved with enormous and beautiful stones resembling jasper . . ." Casas Grandes, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is under the purview of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, which oversees a world-class museum near the ruins. Paquimé visitors can learn about the site’s history and its excavations, which were conducted under the pioneering research of Charles Di Peso and Eduardo Contreras Sánchez and their colleagues from INAH and the Amerind Foundation. Based on a half century of modern research since the Joint Casas Grandes Project, this book explores the recent discoveries about important site and its neighbors. Drawing the expertise of fourteen scholars from the United States, Mexico, and Canada, who have long worked in the region, the chapters revel new insights about Paquimé and its influence, bringing this fascinating place and its story to light.
Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World
Author: Paul E. MinnisPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 081650220X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Paquimé, the great multistoried pre-Hispanic settlement also known as Casas Grandes, was the center of an ancient region with hundreds of related neighbors. It also participated in massive networks that stretched their fingers through northwestern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. Paquimé is widely considered one of the most important and influential communities in ancient northern Mexico and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World, edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen, summarizes the four decades of research since the Amerind Foundation and Charles Di Peso published the results of the Joint Casas Grandes Expeditions in 1974. The Joint Casas Grandes Expedition revealed the extraordinary nature of this site: monumental architecture, massive ball courts, ritual mounds, over a ton of shell artifacts, hundreds of skeletons of multicolored macaws and their pens, copper from west Mexico, and rich political and religious life with Mesoamerican-related images and rituals. Paquimé was not one sole community but was surrounded by hundreds of outlying villages in the region, indicating a zone that sustained thousands of inhabitants and influenced groups much farther afield. In celebration of the Amerind Foundation’s seventieth anniversary, sixteen scholars with direct and substantial experience in Casas Grandes archaeology present nine chapters covering its economy, chronology, history, religion, regional organization, and importance. The two final chapters examine Paquimé in broader geographic perspectives. This volume sheds new light on Casas Grandes/Paquimé, a great town well-adapted to its physical and economic environment that disappeared just before Spanish contact.
Casas Grandes: Tardio and espanõles periods
Author: Charles Corradino Di PesoPublisher:
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Category : Casas Grandes Site (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages :
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