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"It Shows My Way" : = An Archaeology of Roads, Religion, and Power in the Chaco World.

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Title/Author:	"It Shows My Way" :/
Reminder of title:	An Archaeology of Roads, Religion, and Power in the Chaco World.
Author:	Weiner, Robert S.
Description:	1 online resource (921 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.
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Subject:	Archaeology. -
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ISBN:	9798380166706

"It Shows My Way" : = An Archaeology of Roads, Religion, and Power in the Chaco World.
Weiner, Robert S.

"It Shows My Way" :An Archaeology of Roads, Religion, and Power in the Chaco World. - 1 online resource (921 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation bridges archaeology, cultural anthropology, religious studies, and cognitive science to investigate the role of monumental roads associated with Chaco Canyon in the U.S. Southwest. The roads in question were incised into the high desert landscape of the Four Corners region by Ancestral Four Corners people from ca. AD 850-1200, a period of unprecedented monumentality, social inequality, and regional organization in precolonial Southwestern history. Known as Chacoan roads, these avenues were 9 meters wide and formalized to a degree far exceeding functional utility in a culture without wheeled vehicles or pack animals. Most previous studies have examined Chacoan roads through aerial photography and other remote sensing techniques, offering a disembodied, top-down perspective that overlooks human-level practices on roads and the places and entities that roads connect, which, I argue, are at the very core of Chacoan history.This dissertation explores the role of monumental avenues, the practices carried out along them, and the powerful entities of water, land, and sky that roads engaged in creating and maintaining the Chaco World. I present the results of new fieldwork at ten road-related sites throughout the Chaco World that combines LiDAR analysis, drone photogrammetry, GPS mapping, ceramic analysis, and traditional archaeological survey. These field investigations revealed a distinctive suite of architectural features that block, channel, and otherwise prescribe movement along Chacoan roads, along with ritual offerings of broken ceramics. My findings show that roads demarcated alignments to landforms, watery places, and astronomical bodies, and also connected non-contemporaneous sites-thereby inscribing enduring traces of Chacoan religion and orthodoxy on the landscape.To interpret the archaeological traces of Chacoan road-related practices, I detail elements of Dine and Pueblo worldviews and oral histories derived from tribal partnership and ethnographic reviews, along with cross-cultural comparative examples of ceremonial roadways and insights from cognitive science. I draw from these formal and relational analogies to suggest Chacoan roads were loci of ritual processions, races, and offerings. I then argue that the performative rituals on Chacoan roads were constitutive acts in creating Chaco's distinctive society, inculcating prosocial sentiments while also perpetuating leaders' authority. For the Chacoans, road-related practices were performed to maintain relationships with divine entities of power, upholding cosmic balance and society's proper standing within the interconnected whole-the purposes of ceremonial life in Native communities today. I therefore situate the discussion of Chacoan roads, processions, and other ritual practices within larger discussions of ontology and religious practice in the Indigenous Americas.My findings offer new insight into the role of Chacoan roads as an infrastructure that facilitated the development of an early North American complex society by monumentalizing physical connections with powerful places on the landscape and hosting embodied ritual practices. Chaco as a regional politicoreligious phenomenon, then, was inseparable from the transformations enacted on the physical terrain by the creation of roads, as well as within the minds of those engaged in road-related practices. More broadly, these findings engage questions of place, mind, movement, monumentality, and performance in early societies worldwide.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380166706Subjects--Topical Terms:

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