David E. Stuart

About The Author

David E. Stuart is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and the former acting director of the School of Advanced Research, where he also served as a senior scholar at the School for Advanced Research from 2013 to 2019, and he is author of The Ancient Southwest: Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde; Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place; and Pueblo Peoples on the Pajarito Plateau: Archaeology and Efficiency (all from UNM Press).

Books by David E. Stuart

Ancient Women Gardeners

Prelude to the Chacoan World

By David E. Stuart
Afterword by Elizabeth Akiya Chestnut
A wholly new perspective on the importance of gardens and agriculture on the Chacoan world, establishing the female dominated gardeners as the basis of Chacoan culture. Author David E. Stuart digs beyond the standard archaeological examination of structures, tools, and rituals of the age to pr...
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