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Introduction Introduction
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The celestial and the subterranean: layered Pueblo worlds The celestial and the subterranean: layered Pueblo worlds
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Light and darkness in the Chacoan world Light and darkness in the Chacoan world
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Sun and moon at Chaco Sun and moon at Chaco
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Visibility and invisibility Visibility and invisibility
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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Further reading Further reading
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22 Lighting the Good Life: The Role of Light in the Aristocratic Housing System duringLate Antiquity
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11 The Chacoan World: Light and Shadow, Stone and Sky
Get accessRuth M. Van Dyke is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University (State University of New York), USA. She is the author of The Chaco Experience (2007), senior editor of Archaeologies of Memory (with Sue Alcock, 2003), senior editor of The Greater Chaco Landscape (with Carrie Heitman, 2021), editor or co-editor of three additional books, and author of approximately 50 articles and chapters on the archaeology of the ancient southwest United States. Her archaeological research employs phenomenological and other spatial methods to investigate memory, materiality, ideology, visual experience, pilgrimage, ritual, and power in the Chacoan past.
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Published:10 August 2017
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Abstract
In the southwest United States, high altitudes, open vistas, and cloudless skies create a visual atmosphere where the light is legendary. I focus on the role of light for the people of Chaco Canyon—a 1,000-year-old pilgrimage centre in the San Juan Basin of northwest New Mexico. Here, worldviews and cosmologies involved the dualistic juxtaposition of light and dark, visible and invisible, sun and moon. The movements of celestial bodies in a clear sky, and the presence of open sightlines with distinctive peaks, contributed to the creation of a complex cosmography. Sun and moon, visibility and invisibility, light and darkness opposed one another and revolved around Chaco Canyon—the centre of the ancient Chacoan world.
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