SYSTEMIC NESTING AMONG THE ANASAZI: AD 900-1140

Authors

Carl G. Drexler

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Nebraska Anthropologist Vol. 19 (2003-2004). Copyright ©(author); published by The University of Nebraska-Lincoln AnthroGroup.

Abstract

Over the past 150 years, archaeologists have proposed a number of models and hypotheses to explain the growth andfluorescence of the Anasazi system based in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. This paper gives an overview of some of those models, then explores how World System Theory (WSJ) might be used to understand the social and economic processes at work during the pinnacle of settlement in Chaco Canyon.