Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited
Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited
The Published versus the Unpublished Record
“Reyman offers insightful nuggets that contemporary archaeologists should think strongly about, especially the importance of original field notes and other anthropological records for future researchers.”—Joe Watkins, author of Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice
Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde are arguably the two best-known archaeological areas in the American Southwest. Yet despite more than a century of archaeological research, many questions remain unanswered.
From more than fifty years of research, archaeologist Jonathan E. Reyman has uncovered a wealth of materials from the work of George Pepper and Richard Wetherill, mostly from the 1896–1901 Hyde Exploring Expedition at Chaco Canyon but also from later field and collections research at more than twenty institutions in the United States. Previously unpublished Pepper-Wetherill field notes, photographs, and drawings combined with newly commissioned drawings offer a significant revision to what we know about the Chacoan world.
Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited offers a blueprint for future research among existing archaeological collections.
Jonathan E. Reyman is a retired professor of anthropology from Illinois State University. He also served for more than a decade as curator of the American Southwest, Mesoamerican, and South American archaeological and ethnographic collections at the Illinois State Museum.
