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Within The Canyon Country Of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, And Colorado, The Anasazi Built An Elaborate System Of Carefully Engineered Roadways. Many Of The Roads Connect To Sites In Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, And Required An Enormous Amount Of Human Labor To Create. Nearly 200 Miles Of Roads Have Been Documented In The Past Fifteen Years By A Handful Of Investigators, But The Function And Significance Of These Roads Remain A Mystery. Kathryn Gabriel, A Journalist And Researcher With A Lifelong Interest In Chaco Canyon And The Anasazi, Examines Chacoan Road Systems, Using Analogies Drawn From Such Diverse Phenomena As The Use Of Road Metaphors In Pueblo Indian Traditions And Astronomical Alignments Of Southwestern Sites. Roads To Center Place Is More Than A Guide To Road Corridors And Archaeological Features; It Is A Map To A Lifeway -- Back Cover. Older Than The Mesas -- Interpreting The Roads -- A Ruin With A View -- The Anasazi Corridor -- New World Archaeoastronomy -- Road Cosmology -- The Pochteca Trail -- Traveling The Straight Road -- The Road Engineers -- Returned To Sender -- Discovering The Roads -- The Anasazi Atlas. Kathryn Gabriel. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [

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Author

Gabriel, Kathryn

Publisher

Boulder, Colo. :

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585019659

Category

travel

Subjects

Business, Science, Fiction

Rating

4.27 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14