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xiii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In 1540 Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, the governor of Nueva Galicia in western Mexico, led an expedition of reconnaissance and expansion to a place called Cibola, far to the north in what is now New Mexico. The papers collected in this book bring multidisciplinary expertise to the study of that expedition."
"Volume contributors are from a range of disciplines including history, archaeology, Latin American studies, anthropology, astronomy, and geology....
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xi, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
According to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies. This book challenges and reconfigures these accepted notions by telling two parallel stories, one about the development, personalities, and institutions of Southwestern archaeology and the other about interpretations of what actually happened in the ancient past. While many works...
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