Kendrick Frazier's "People of Chaco" remains one of the most readable introductions to the great Ancestral Puebloan center in northwestern New Mexico, where between roughly 850 and 1150 CE the inhabitants raised multistory great houses like Pueblo Bonito, engineered hundreds of miles of arrow-straight roads, and tracked the heavens with astonishing precision. Frazier, longtime editor of Skeptical Inquirer and a careful science writer, synthesizes the archaeology without dumbing it down, weaving in the famous "sun dagger" on Fajada Butte and the possible Crab Nebula supernova pictograph beneath Penasco Blanco, both pictured on the rear panel.
This is the 1986 W. W. Norton first edition, complete in its tan pictorial jacket showing the sweep of Chaco Canyon. As a clear, well-sourced account written as Chaco scholarship was maturing, it became a standard introduction to the canyon.
First Edition (1986)
The copyright page states 'First Edition' with a full number line. A true first. This is a W. W. Norton book; see how W. W. Norton states its first printings.
| Author | Kendrick Frazier |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton |
| Year | 1986 |
| ISBN | 0-393-02313-3 |
| Edition | First Edition (1986) |
| Condition | Hardcover in dust jacket, sound. |
| Topic | Chaco Canyon archaeology |
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