Discovering Paquime - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816534012 ISBN 13 : 9780816534012

Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul E. Minnis is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He has studied Paquimé since 1984 and co-directed research projects on Casas Grandes/Paquimé in northwest Chihuahua since 1989. He is a past president of the Society of Ethnobiology, treasurer and press editor for the Society for American Archaeology, and co-founder of the Southwest Symposium.

Michael E. Whalen is a professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa. Before coming to Casas Grandes in 1989, he worked in southern Mesoamerica and in the U.S. Southwest. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Arizona Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816534012
• ISBN 13: 9780816534012
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Éditeur: Minnis Paul E., Whalen Michael E.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible