Ancestral Pueblo Worlds: Cultural Landscapes of the American Southwest

They dragged more than two hundred thousand trees across fifty miles of desert to raise a canyon full of great houses where almost no one seems to have lived. Welcome to the Ancestral Pueblo world. For over a thousand years it stretched across the Colorado Plateau: monumental architecture but no kings, long-distance trade but no money, an astronomy exact enough to track the 18.6-year cycle of the ...