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In Partnership With The Land - An Environmentally Historic Overview Of The Ancestral Puebloan People Of Chaco Canyon During The Bonito Phase Ce 850-1140, Ilyse Goldman

MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019

This paper is an environmental history of the Ancestral Puebloan People of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico from 850 - 1 1 40 of the Common Era (CE), a period also known as the Bonito Phase. Environmental history explores the relationship between people and their landscape over time. To capture as complete a narrative as possible, this paper is written from three perspectives - the natural history of the desert southwest, how the Ancestral Puebloans adapted to these environmental conditions, and a discussion of how the Ancestral Puebloan religious cosmology assisted them in adapting to these conditions, enabling them …