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The chapter will begin with a discussion of the development of Chaco Canyon. It began between AD 850 and 900 in Chaco Canyon with three large great houses, Pueblo Bonito, Una Vida, and Peñasco Blanco. What is impressive is that this agriculturally based society thrived for over 200 years in the arid desert of New Mexico without a permanent source of water. In Chaco Canyon, water comes from Chaco Wash, which is a highly variable stream that occasionally runs completely dry depending on annual snowfall and seasonal storms. The chapter will also provide a description of all the burials recovered and analyzed from Chaco Canyon.
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Harrod, R.P. (2017). Chaco Canyon. In: The Bioarchaeology of Social Control. Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59516-0_4
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