Contemporary Archaeologies Of The Southwest William Walker Kathryn R Venzor by William Walker, Kathryn R. Venzor 9781607320906, 1607320908 instant download after payment.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Introduction to Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest -- PLACE MAKING -- IDENTITIES, BOUNDARIES, AND PLACE MAKING -- REFERENCES CITED -- PART I: Places of Experience and Memory -- CHAPTER 1. Materialities of Place IDEOLOGY ON THE CHACOAN LANDSCAPE -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES -- INTERPRETING SENSUAL PLACES -- LANDSCAPE AND THE CHACOAN WORLDVIEW -- Sacred Geography and Visibility -- Dualisms and Oppositions, Visibility and Movement -- Directionality and Celestial Events -- Cyclical Renewal and Social Memory -- Center Place -- A CHACOAN IDEOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 2. Procurement and Landscape LITHIC QUARRIES AS PLACES -- NATURAL FEATURES AS PART OF THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE -- LANDSCAPES AND MEMORY IN THE CHACOAN SOUTHWEST -- CHIPPED STONE IN CHACO CANYON ... -- ... AND ACROSS THE CHACO WORLD -- OBJECTS OUT OF PLACE -- LITHIC OBJECTS AS "PIECES OF PLACES"--CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 3. The Sun Dagger Interactive Computer Graphics Model A DIGITAL RESTORATION OF A CHACOAN CALENDRICAL SITE -- THE SUN DAGGER SITE: ONE PART OF CHACOANS' ASTRONOMY AND COSMOGRAPHY -- THE SUN DAGGER SITE -- Solar Light Patterns -- Lunar and Equinox Light Pattern -- DEVELOPING AN ARCHIVAL RECORD -- Early Efforts -- Disturbances of the Site -- Computer Graphics Efforts -- DEVELOPING AND ORIENTING THE LASER-SCAN MODEL OF THE SUN DAGGER SITE -- Establishing Geodetic Orientation -- Conducting the Laser Scanning -- Registration of the Laser Scans -- Modeling the 2005 Laser-Scanned Site -- Positioning and Orienting the Laser-Scanned Model -- Testing the Accuracy of the Laser-Scanned Model -- DEVELOPING THE 1984 PHOTOGRAMMETRY COMPUTER MODEL OF THE SUN DAGGER SITE -- Background: 1984 Photogrammetric Activity -- 2006 Photogrammetric Reading