What is Chaco? Location, Features, and Chronology with Rich Friedman - Site Bites S1E1

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On the first episode of Site Bite’s Podcast season one, Carlton and Rob talk with Rich Friedman about the landscape and chronology of the famed Chaco Canyon archaeological site. We start off by getting Rich’s background in geology and how that education propelled him into Chacoan archaeology. We go in-depth about his work using emerging technologies and how those tools have allowed archaeologists to expand our understanding of the region’s environment and human behavior in and around Chaco Canyon.

Links

• Clark, Jeffery J., and Barbara J. Mills (eds.)
• 2018 Chacoan Archaeology at the 21st Century. Archaeology Southwest Magazine 32(2-3).
• Friedman, Richard A., Anna Sofaer, and Robert S. Weiner
• 2017 Remote Sensing of Chaco Roads Revisited: Lidar Documentation of the Great North Road, Pueblo Alto Landscape, and Aztec Airport Mesa Road. Advances in Archaeological Practice 5(4):365-381.
• Friedman, Richard A., Anna Sofaer, and Robert S. Weiner
• 2021 (in press) Chaco’s Greater Landscape Revealed and Re-Created with New Technologies. In The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy, edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Carrie C. Heitman. University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
• Lekson, Steven H. (ed.)
• 2006 The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: An Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, NM.
• Lekson,Stephen H., Thomas C. Windes, John R. Stein and W. James Judge
• 1988 The Chaco Canyon Community. Scientific American 259(1):100-109.
• Mills, Barbara J.
• 2002 Recent Research on Chaco: Changing Views on Economy, Ritual, and Society. Journal of Archaeological Research 10(1):65-117.
• Stein, John, Richard Friedman, Taft Blackhorse, and Richard Loose
• 2007 Revisiting Downtown Chaco. In The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, edited by Stephen H. Lekson, pp. 199-224. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
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• Rich Friedman
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Carlton Shield Chief Gover

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• Website: https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/carlton-gover

Robert Weiner

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• Instagram: @chacoroadsproject

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