Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest

ISBN: 9780826339690

出版社: University of New Mexico Press

出版年: 2006-5-31

页数: 336

定价: USD 60.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

"Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest" offers a complete picture of Puebloan culture from its prehistoric beginnings through twenty-five hundred years of growth and change, ending with the modern-day Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. Aerial and ground photographs, over 325 in color, and sixty settlement plans provide an armchair trip to ruins that are open to the public and that may be visited or viewed from nearby. Included, too, are the living pueblos from Taos in north central New Mexico along the Rio Grande Valley to Isleta, and westward through Acoma and Zuni to the Hopi pueblos in Arizona.In addition to the architecture of the ruins, "Puebloan Ruins of the Southwest" gives a detailed overview of the Pueblo Indiansa lifestyles including their spiritual practices, food, clothing, shelter, physical appearance, tools, government, water management, trade, ceramics, and migrations.