Author: Dan ScurlockPublisher:
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Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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From the Rio to the Sierra
Author: Dan ScurlockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Abstract Proceedings
Author: American Water Resources Association. Annual ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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New Challenges to Western Water Law
Author: The Pajarito Plateau
Author: Frances Joan MathienPublisher:
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Category : Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico
Author: Marc TreibPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520064201
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Description and history of the early churches and missions in New Mexico.
Qualacu
Author: Michael P. MarshallPublisher:
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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The San Juan-Chama Project
Author: Leah S. GlaserPrecolumbian Water Management
Author: Lisa Joyce LuceroPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816523146
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Among ancient Mesoamerican and Southwestern peoples, water was as essential as maize for sustenance and was a driving force in the development of complex society. Control of water shaped the political, economic, and religious landscape of the ancient Americas, yet it is often overlooked in Precolumbian studies. Now one volume offers the latest thinking on water systems and their place within the ancient physical and mental language of the region. Precolumbian Water Management examines water management from both economic and symbolic perspectives. Water management facilities, settlement patterns, shrines, and water-related imagery associated with civic-ceremonial and residential architecture provide evidence that water systems pervade all aspects of ancient society. Through analysis of such data, the contributors seek to combine an understanding of imagery and the religious aspects of water with its functional components, thereby presenting a unified perspective of how water was conceived, used, and represented in ancient greater Mesoamerica. The collection boasts broad chronological and geographical coverageÑfrom the irrigation networks of Teotihuacan to the use of ritual water technology at Casas GrandesÑthat shows how procurement and storage systems were adapted to local conditions. The articles consider the mechanisms that were used to build upon the sacredness of water to enhance political authority through time and space and show that water was not merely an essential natural resource but an important spiritual one as well, and that its manipulation was socially far more complex than might appear at first glance. As these papers reveal, an understanding of materials associated with water can contribute much to the ways that archaeologists study ancient cultural systems. Precolumbian Water Management underscores the importance of water management research and the need to include it in archaeological projects of all types.
From Clovis to Comanchero
Author: Jack L. HofmanPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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A Mission in the Desert
Author: Michael E. WelshPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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