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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CRAIG CHILDS is a comm
entator for National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Outside, Audubon, Sierra, Orion, and Mountain Gazette. He is a regular contributor to High Country News and Arizona Highways. His body of work has won the Spirit of the West Award, and he was also recipient of a Colorado Book Award. Childs has worked a wide variety of jobs, including jazz musician, journalist, gas station attendant, beer bottler, and river guide. He lives off the grid with his wife and two children at the foot of the West Elk Mountains in Colorado.
*On the other side of the planet and completely unaware of the Americas, medieval Europe was witnessing the construction of its fi rst large cathedrals, and London reached a population of 10,000.(back to text)
*This form of celestial orientation is common throughout the world. In the second millennium B.C., the henge builders of northern latitudes aligned their megaliths and shrines with myriad points in the sky and on the horizon. In Japan a thousand years later, the vast stone sundial of NonakadÕ was built, and in the second century B.C., aligned megalithic tombs were constructed at Brahmagiri in southern India. The Americas were not far behind. Beginning in Peru in the last few thousand years B.C. and continuing all the way up to eleventh-century Chaco, such celestial alignments were common in the Americas.(back to text)
*The burials at Chaco seem to be divided into hierarchical tiers. Those living insmall sites tended to be buried in exterior trash middens — which appear to have been treated very differently and with more veneration than modern American landfi lls. These small-site burials were often accompanied by common types of ceramic vessels and other everyday artifacts. By contrast, burials in great houses had far greater personal ornamentation, and the accompanying artifacts were of high quality, including many decorated vessels. Even among these great-house burials, some groups appear to have been much wealthier than others.(back to text)
*At a pre-Columbian site almost two hundred miles from Chaco, researchers once marveled at the presence of very accurate Chacoan masonry. Soon it was discovered that the stonework had actually been done in the early twentieth century by a stabilization crew. The crew had previously worked at Chaco, where they closely studied local masonry, and then mistakenly transferred their knowledge when they left to work elsewhere. This may anecdotally explain how styles of building once traveled around the pre-Columbian Southwest. People saw something they liked and took the technique back home, while masons moved from place to place carrying their practiced skills along with them.(back to text)